Readers interested in a similar plot will be better served by Rio Youers’s Halcyon. Barkan, however, fails to make the characters multidimensional or emotionally plausible. Ross Barkan Verified Freelance Journalist, Freelance Founder and Writer, Political Currents Politics, U.S. Eventually, Leroux’s real, and unsurprisingly sinister, master plan for limiting human damage to Earth is revealed, placing Lucien in peril. When a student at another school checks the book out for him, they become friends, and Lucien gets even more exposure to forbidden material. Inevitably, Lucien is tempted by the world beyond his restrictive school, and at the public library he becomes engrossed in Bernard Malamud’s The Natural. That mission comes with restrictions on reading material, technology, and even the colors that can be used, as Lucien learns when he paints a birdhouse black. Leroux to foster living lives “free of negativity,” in harmony with nature. The Night Burns Bright Ross Barkan (Author) FORMAT Paperback 14.95 Compact Disc 24.99 MP3 CD 14.99 Available add to cart add to wishlist Description In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy's spark of courage to question the harmonious wooded commune he calls home may burn down more than just his own illusions. When Lucien, the protagonist of this unconvincing, slow-moving thriller from Barkan ( Demolition Night), is six, his mother enrolls him in an eco-friendly upstate New York private school, House of Earth, where she works in recordkeeping.
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