FOUND - The Swan Song - YA apocalypse book - heroine grows scar that covers her entire face

Oct. 7th, 2018 10:41
[personal profile] nella_sweet2
So I read this book early 2000s when I was in high school and remember loving it. Here are some details I think I remember, hope someone can help.

1. I think it's an apocalypse/post-apocalypse/sci-fi/sci-fi horror themed with a strong focus on female protagonist.

2. The catastrophe on earth (think it was a series of natural diasters and combination of gases?) has killed a lot of people but most importantly to the plot, it has pretty much knocked out modern technology and modern conveniences.

3. I remember the heroine best and her along with several other characters grow scars but through their actions the scars eventually reveal a face fitting their character.

4. Another prominent plot line was that some of the characters have visions which is what leads their journey particularly the girl who is portrayed as kind and she has a band of others travelling with.

5. The story is at times brutal with survival of the fittest emphasised and the stronger but cruel of the remaining population hunting others.

6. There is also a male protagonist who also has visions of the heroine.

7. A point I remember vividly is when her scar falls away and her true face is revealed she is beautiful with flowing hair of multiple hues. I remember how the highlights in her hair was vividly described.

8. I think there may be something about a printing press or trying to restore means of communication (not sure if this is ftom that story or something else I was reading at the time?)

I hope someone can recognise this work. It's been plaguing my memories for years and no Google search has yielded any results.
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Sci-Fi Comic Book World with Robot Virus (FOUND)

Oct. 3rd, 2018 23:47
[personal profile] alanefraire
FOUND: 'The Accidental Hero' or 'Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation'

Boy am I glad I found this community.

I read this book ages ago, it was in my school library and I read the entire series. I remember loving it, and now I can't find it again.

I remember there was a kid who was in an orphanage, or a boys home, or something like that, and it was extremely strict. The group were going on a trip and he was hiding in the library (?) where he had hidden a bunch of comic books he was told to throw out. Some of them had pages ripped or damaged, so he made up his own endings to the stories. He was found by one of the caretakers (?), and forced to join the trip. I remember one of the kids teasing him and making him so mad that the lights in the bus blew out and he was forced to stay back and do chores, because everything was blamed on him (it was his fault always anyway).

He had to go down to the basement at some point and a robot from one of the comic books came out and attacked him, saying stuff about the robot prince or something? He ended up blowing up the robot (?) in the garden, and he hid the parts of the robot and didn't tell anyone until this random old dude came to pick him up from the orphanage. He was then taken to a secret island that can only be accessed at a certain time of the year, where he found all his favourite comics were real. Some guy had visited the island and turned the stories he heard into comics. When he arrived they checked him over for some sort of virus and he tested positive, but the old dude managed to convince security he was clean.

This was all in the first few chapters by the way. I'm really upset because I can remember so much of the book but I cannot, for the life of me, remember the title. It was one word.

In the following books he joined a training academy for the best of the best, found out the robot prince was living inside him and was tricked into meeting the robot princes father, under the assumption it was his father. He got taken to the mothership, where the robot prince took over his body. I remember a part where he related what was happening to something from the comics, where one of the main characters got taken over by the robot virus, but the rest of the comic had been torn up, so he had made up an ending for it. Then his friends tried to save him, but the robot had taken over and he had sort of merged or something with it and they tried to take over the world and one of their friends died or something?

I'm also pretty sure it was a trilogy. If anyone could help me, I would be forever grateful.

Alane
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*solved* Real world fantasy, multiple time-frames, dystopian ending *spoilers*

Jun. 3rd, 2018 01:45
[personal profile] faz_rach_92
I read a book a couple of years ago (2016-ish) and cant remember the title for the life of me.

It was about a girl whose younger brother goes missing during her childhood. He was a bright boy and a bit strange, always drawing something (I think it was a map or a maze)
The book follows her through several stages of her life, from the 1970s/80s in her childhood to an imagined near future when she is a grandmother.

I cant remember any characters names or even much of the plot but a few scenes and details stick out.

She runs away from home and gets a job picking fruit at a farm. There's a boy on a bike who she has a romantic link with, they sleep in a barn one night.

There's a moment where she sees a woman fishing on a dock by a canal and she draws something in the dust, it becomes significant much later in the book when some time travel elements come into play.

She witnesses a horrible double murder but gets her memory wiped.

There's a secret society that was involved in the vanishing of her brother. I think her actual brother died very early on and one of its members came to use his body.

she gets married to bike boy and they have children who have children.

In the closing chapters she's raising her grandchildren in a dystopian Ireland where Global resources are running out and society has regressed. the secret society save the children but the whole think is pretty bleak.

I read it in Australia but I think it's set in the UK. I always thought it was Labyrinth by Kate Mosse but having recently got that book and read it i realised its completely different and I'm now very confused.
Please Help.
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Need help finding this book, thanks in advance!

Nov. 14th, 2017 22:54
[personal profile] whats_up9
Hi everybody!

So the details I remember are:

Good vs evil in both the real world and parallel world

The setting of the book is an old school but there is also a parallel world (of sorts) where there are dragons, kings and all that stuff so that version is like a medieval fantasy one. You can only go to that parallel world and back on certain times a year. People from the school also have like, soul twins(?) in the parallel world. For example there is a professor in the school who knows these things and mentors laura, his other version in the parallel world is a king and I remember both of them getting hurt or sick if either of them gets hurt or sick. And the protagonist needed to save the professor/king at one point because of this(one of them was poisoned I think?) I think she had to get something like the holy chalice or something like that to heal the guy but I’m not sure

The main character was a girl called Laura (%90 sure) she had telepathy, telekinesis and other abilities like that. She basically helps the professor and other good characters by having secret confrontations with the evil guys in the real world, she also goes to the parallel one to help out with stuff.

I think there are 5 or 6 books in the series and I’m %100 sure the main heroine forgets everything and loses her powers to win against the evil at the end. And then a new student arrives (and it is implied that the new guy has her abilities and he/she will take the protagonist’s place now) and it ends like that

I remember a dragon eating a character in the 4th or 5th book I think?

I also remember that the protagonist has a confrontation with a sfenks(sphynx?) in the parallel world and she escapes by answering her riddle correctly.

I also remember that the evil people try to kill the protagonist and her mom when she’s little, they put some hellhound like dogs on the road when they are in a car and her mother drives the car down a cliff to the sea to not hit them, her mother drowns but an angel or something saves the protagonist

I think she also has a brother who has no powers BUT I’m really not sure about this one

I think I read this book around 7-8 years before? I think it was a new book back then but I’m not sure.

This is about all I remember from the books. If anyone can help me out I’d really appreciate it, thanks in advance everybody!
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