The Eleventh Plaugue - Cooper Geier

Cooper Geier, Period 1, December 17

The Eleventh Plague

By Jeff Hirsch

The Eleventh Plague is about a teenager named Stephen Quinn trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic America. It's copyright date was in 2011. It has many plot twists so don't get attached to anything. When Stephen's Grandpa dies and his Father falls into a coma, Stephen will do anything to get his dad up and working again, even if it means leaving him in a dark house to go along with strangers. This book's theme is to never stop believing  in yourself.

The story is told in Third Person Omniscient, because you see what Stephen is thinking, and what he is doing, however he isn't telling the story. When Stephen's Grandpa dies, he and his dad go out searching for a permanent house to stay at. But when his dad falls into a coma and Stephen is confronted by strangers, he has no other choice but to follow them to their town and hope for medicine. The intended audience are boys from ages 11-15. The Genre is Fiction, and the book fits into it by putting the reader in a post-apocalypse scenario. The author kept me interested by including a lot of action and plot twists. The authors style is a lot of action and plot twists, and it definitely kept me interested.


This book told me not to give up, and I have done better since then at that. It did not change any of my ideas, but I think that the scenario portrayed in the book could very well be the one in real life. This book reminded me of The Maze Runner series.


Although this book was good, it was also very dark. In the first few pages, Stephen's grandfather dies, then in the next few, his dad goes also. However, all of these did add up to the capability of a lot of plot twists in the conclusion and the middle of the book.



Cooper Geier

12/17/13

RATING: ***** 5/5