My Rating: 3 out of 5 THANK YOU TO NET GALLEY AND NLA DIGITAL FOR ALLOWING ME TO REVIEW THIS BOOK AND GIVE MY HONEST OPINION Published March 8th 2012 by NLA Digital Synopsis: Imagine finding your first love, only to be ripped apart by the apocalypse. Peyton Anderson will never forget the day she was forced to make a choice--between her family--and Chris Parker, the boy she'd given her heart. Now, four years later, as she steps from the fallout shelter and into a dead and broken world, he's the only thing on her mind. All Chris "Chase" Parker wanted was to take Peyton away and keep her safe from harm. But he waited for hours in the rain on judgment day and she never showed--breaking his heart without ever telling him why. Now the two of them have been thrown together once again, reluctant chaperones to a group of orphan children in a post-apocalyptic world where the dead still walk...and feed. As they begin their pilgrimage to the last human outpost on Earth, can they find a way to let go of old hurts and find the love they lost--all while attempting to save what's left of the human race? Review: Dystopia and Zombies are the new hit for 2012 and Vampires are soooo 2011. So I jumped at the chance to read Tomorrow Land, a futuristic post apocalyptic story about a girl being the last hope for mankind. What threw me instantly was the third person narrative. For a book that gives points of view for one character and then jumps to the next character I could see that if it was a first person narrative I might have been engaged in the story more. For me the feel of the writing held me at arms length and didn't quite let me get closer to the characters as I would have liked. That being said, I did like the way the story went back and forth. The dramatism worked as we uncover more lies and secrets from nowadays and the past, and we eventually begin Chase and Peytons journey. There are moments that felt a little unoriginal and other moments that seemed too 2012. The future Sim games (apparently every teenager is going to be involved and fully immersed in video games), and nanotechnology for example. Yet four years prior to the main story Peyton was still catching the bus to school and visiting the market to buy fresh veggies for her mother. Its supposed to be 2030-something. If a world was that advanced then I would presume ALL aspects of life would have changed not just the techie bits.

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