The hurricane seemed to come out of nowhere. Unfortunately, I think readers might be tempted to skip over them. The environmental information in them was informative though. There are also some 'news' articles inserted fairly regularly that report on local, regional and national news, such as the super-hurricane known as OscPearl that seems to manage to drown most of the east coast from Florida to Massachussetts.Īnd that's where the book kind of lost me. So, yeah, some real life does go on despite the dire reality. Gwen has a crush on Tom and Tom has a crush on Nikki and Nikki, who was recently dumped by her quarterback boyfriend needs a date to the bonfire.

Then, there's Nikki, the rich, cheerleader queen bee, monumentally unconcerned and uninformed. Gwen's not happy her brother is dealing in black market gasoline, but he's putting food on the table and he's the only thing she has. Regular people like Tom and his mom are having a difficult time Poorer people, like Gwen and her brother, who were abandoned by their alcoholic mother two years earlier, are really living on the edge. Electrical service, especially those companies that rely on fossil fuels to produce electricity, is not only spotty, but astronomically expensive, because, you know that all these costs are passed on the consumer.

is about to declare war on Venezuela, which is suspected of hoarding their oil. and several other oil producing countries are clean out and the U.S. Ten years into the future, three upstate New York teens are dealing with this disturbing reality. (Free copy: chosen to review for NJ State Youth Services Book Evaluation)Ĭan you envision a world without fossil fuels? Do you ever wonder when the world will run out of oil? Suzanne Weyn tries to answer these questions.

Empty by Suzanne Weyn