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    Out of This Place
    Audiobook3 hours

    Out of This Place

    Written by Emma Cameron

    Narrated by Candice Moll, Leonardo Nam and David Atlas

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Luke spends his days hanging out at the beach, working shifts at the local supermarket, and trying to stay out of trouble at school until he can be on his own.

    Bongo gets wasted, blocking out memories of the little brother Social Services took away from his addict mom and avoiding the stepdad who hits him.

    And Casey, the girl they both love, longs to get away from her strict, controlling father and start anew in a place where she can be free.

    When their lives all take very different and surprising paths, will these three friends find a way to come together again?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9781469275512
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    • 5/5
      Beautiful book in verse about a group of friends dealing with the transition from high school to adulthood. Tender and authentic -- sad and redemptive and wise. Issues of poverty, sex, drugs, abuse. 9th grade and up? Might be okay for an 8th grader depending on the reader.
    • 4/5
      Luke, Casey and David (aka Bongo) are three friends living in an Australian town, linked by their strong desire to leave their town and simultaneously estranged by their personal demons. Written in poetic vignettes, each character lends his or her perspective on the others' lives while also struggling to work through their own issues. "Out of This Place" is a moving and quick read about how three friends might just be able to save each other in the end.
    • 3/5
      I very rarely read books in verse, so I wasn't completely sure what to expect with this one, but Out of This Place was a moving look at three Australian teenagers coming of age, often under very difficult circumstances.

      The stories of Luke, Bongo, and Casey all overlap in some ways, but you need the perspectives of all three teens to know the full story. In Luke's, we only get glimpses of Bongo and Casey -- we see them through his eyes as he tries to imagine their struggles, and we need their own first-person tales to get their perspective and to complete the stories.

      The verse is simple and reads easily, and overall it didn't feel much different than reading a handful of interconnected short stories. I imagine that it's hard to give each character distinctive voices in verse, and sometimes things felt a bit muddled but overall Cameron did a great job at making Luke, Bongo, and Casey all unique voices. I really felt for each of the characters as their stories twisted and turned, and you learned more of their circumstances.

      Telling the story in verse does cut down on extraneous details, plotlines, etc. Everything we get here is essential to the story and to the growth of the characters. So while sometimes I wish it were padded out a bit more, I don't think it would have fit the fact that this is a story in verse, not traditional prose.

      Some of the facts of the story may be a little inaccessible to US readers (or maybe non-Australians?). Aside from slang, the book presumes (and rightly so, being an Australian-set book by an Australian writer) you have an understanding of how the Australian education system works. Maybe it was a bigger stumbling block for me, getting caught up on details of "wait, how are they working in the middle of the day?" and such.

      Some topics in the book include drug/alcohol abuse, homelessness, and teen pregnancy, and there is some sexual content, though nothing is described explicitly.
    • 5/5
      It has been a long time since I’ve read a book written in verse.I forgot how beautiful and elegant they are. So simple, yet so dynamic. Expertly crafted to convey the most emotion in so little. Especially in the case for Out of This Place, I couldn’t peel my eyes from my kindle.I started reading around noon on a beautiful, sunny day. I could have been swimming, but instead I was perched on the swing outside, getting sunburned because I refused to stop reading. I finished the same day and immediately wished it never had to end.So far, not a single Australian author has disappointed me. I’m not sure what is in the air over there, but it has some serious creative flavor.Out of This Place drags you into each of these characters lives. Through the eyes of Luke, Casey, and Bongo, we see how hard it truly is for some people, and how to appreciate the life you were given.I felt so hard for these three. Their lives are so different, yet so similar. But they each find someone worse off than they are.I cried. I smiled. My heart grew every time a new line of verse would begin.Gorgeous writing. Spectacular characters. This book is remarkable.