Black & White
Black & White #1
by Nick Wilford
Published: September
18, 2017
Publisher: Superstar
Peanut Publishing
Genre: Young Adult, Science
Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia
Blurb:
What is the price paid for the creation of a perfect society?
In Whitopolis, a gleamingly white city of the future where illness has been eradicated, shock waves run through the populace when a bedraggled, dirt-stricken boy materialises in the main street. Led by government propaganda, most citizens shun him as a demon, except for Wellesbury Noon – a high school student the same age as the boy.
Upon befriending the boy, Wellesbury feels a connection that he can’t explain – as well as discovering that his new friend comes from a land that is stricken by disease and only has two weeks to live. Why do he and a girl named Ezmerelda Dontible appear to be the only ones who want to help?
As they dig deeper, everything they know is turned on its head – and a race to save one boy becomes a struggle to redeem humanity.
In Whitopolis, a gleamingly white city of the future where illness has been eradicated, shock waves run through the populace when a bedraggled, dirt-stricken boy materialises in the main street. Led by government propaganda, most citizens shun him as a demon, except for Wellesbury Noon – a high school student the same age as the boy.
Upon befriending the boy, Wellesbury feels a connection that he can’t explain – as well as discovering that his new friend comes from a land that is stricken by disease and only has two weeks to live. Why do he and a girl named Ezmerelda Dontible appear to be the only ones who want to help?
As they dig deeper, everything they know is turned on its head – and a race to save one boy becomes a struggle to redeem humanity.
My Review of
Imagine living in a world where there was no dirt, dust,
mud, germs, illness or diseases, a world where everything is white from the walls
to the floors to the ceiling and all clothing and shoes are all white as well,
a world that is devoid of color.
Imagine living in this perfect world where disease and dirt
does not exist and then seeing a boy appear in the middle of the street out of nowhere
and this boy has this brown stuff all over his body and his clothes are ragged
and torn.
This boy explains that the brown stuff is dirt and you have
no idea what that word means. You realize that something is not right with this
boy and he explains that he is sick and only has couple of weeks to live and
you have no idea what he is referring too.
In your world you have no need to know these words like dirt
and disease so there for you have no knowledge of these words and are very
confused about the boys statements. This boy explains to you that he is from
another place that you have never heard of so what do you do? Well you are definitely
curious so you start an investigation and when you do your world is turned
upside down and you have a lot of question that could get you into big trouble with
the government and the people in charge.
The boy who has opened this can of worms is Wellesbury Noon
and when he hears about this boy and all these words that he is not familiar with
it opens up his mind and he starts to wonder what these words mean. Wellesbury
decides to go see the boy and finds out that is name is Mallinger and about his
illness.
Wellesbury feels a deep connection with the boy and wants to
help him. Wellesbury cannot explain this connection that he feels with the boy.
Wellesbury runs into to a girl, Ezmerelda Dontible who has taken an interest
into this boy, Mallinger too and both decide to help Mallinger.
When I read the summary for Black & White I knew I had
to read and now after reading it I wonder what took me so long to pick it up
but once I did pick up I couldn’t put it down. Black & White had me from
hello so to speak. It grabbed a hold of me from the first word and pulled me
into its world and once I was there I was lost. It took me on a whirlwind of a
ride from up high in a disease free world down into its depth to a world that
is riddle with disease.
I loved the whole concept of the idea behind Black &
White and how it relates to our own world. It shows how people that live in
different parts of the world and how their lives are as different as light and
dark. It shows how people who have the resources need to stand up and fight for
those who do not have those resources. We need to stand together and fight as
one as we are one.
It is like my husband says we know how to grow food so no
one should go hungry, we know how to make electricity so no one should be
without lights, we know how to build houses so no one should be homeless, we
know how to heal so no one should be sick.
I would highly recommend Black & White to anyone who
loves a good dystopian and anyone who loves a heartfelt and warming story line.
Corruption
Black & White #2
by Nick Wilford
Published: February
11, 2019
Publisher: Superstar
Peanut Publishing
Genre: Young Adult,
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia
Blurb:
Wellesbury Noon and Ezmerelda Dontible have found themselves
in a position where they can make their native land somewhere that lives up to
its name: Harmonia. However, they’re setting their sights further afield for
their number one task: eradicating the disease that has plagued the
neighbouring country of Loretania for generations and allowed the privileged
Harmonians to live in a sterile environment.
After dispatching a team of scientists to Loretania, armed
with cratefuls of an antidote and vaccine and headed up by their friend, Dr
George Tindleson, Welles, Ez, and Welles’s brother Mal – who grew up in that
benighted nation – start to worry when they hear nothing back, despite what
they had agreed. Commandeering a fishing boat to follow the science team over
the sea, they soon find that, while the disease may be on the way out, a new
kind of infection has set in – the corruption they thought they had stamped out
in Harmonia.
Can they get to the root of the problem and eradicate it
before even more damage is done to an innocent people?
*** Warning – this book contains themes that some sensitive
readers may find upsetting.
Goodreads ~ Amazon
My Review of Corruption #2:
After finally getting everyone in Harmonia to listen to them
and see their way into curing his brother Malinger from the disease that has
plagued the people of Loretania, Wellesbury Noon and Ezmerelda Dontible now
want to help Malinger’s family and everyone else in Loretania.
Dr George Tindleson, a scientist friend of theirs is sent
along with other scientist and doctors with a cargo full of the cure to Loretania
to distribute to everyone in Loretania. Welles, Ez and Mal want to accompany their
friend on his journey but are not allowed as it would not be in their best interest
and they would probably be more in the way than they would be helping besides
they have school to attend.
Dr. Tindleson promises that after he inoculates everyone in
Loretania in a few weeks he will return to Harmonia to give them an update as
to how everything is going but when a couple of weeks go by with no sign of the
Dr. they start to worry and to make plans to go to Loretania to see what is
going on.
I have fallen in love with this world that the author has
created for the Black & White Trilogy. A world filled with corruption. One
world is disease free and as white as the driven snow with no dirt or germs and
another is filled with germs and dirt with mud everywhere as different as two
peas in a pod.
Corruption is just as enthralling as the first book Black
& White and pulled me in from the beginning. Once I picked it up I couldn’t
seem to put it down. I can’t wait for the next book in the trilogy to see where
our friends take us next.
While Corruption answered a lot of questions left from Black
& White it still left a lot of questions unanswered leaving me looking
forward to the next book. Both books left unanswered questions but each book
closed a chapter so to speak but at the same time it still left me wanting more
but in my opinion that is good right I mean how else is the author going to
keep you coming back for more. That is
what a good story does, right?
I would recommend Corruption to all fans of dystopian books
with little mystery between its pages.
The
Treatment
Black
& White Prequel
By
Nick Wilford
Genre:
Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia
Blurb:
The Treatment explains how the dystopian world of the Black & White Trilogy came into being.
My Review of The Treatment Prequel:
The Treatment is a great introduction into the world of the
Black & White Trilogy. The Treatment gives us background information on how
their world was taken over by the Reform and changed their lives forever.
The Treatment tells how families are ripped apart and some
are taken away for what they believe is to be for treatment but are forced to
live in the worse conditions imaginable. They are dumped there not knowing what
is going on back at home and what is happening to their families and no way
home.
The Treatment is a very short read but reads like a full length
novel giving you more information than you would ever imagine in such a short
book. It fills you with a lot of information on how everything began in the
Black & White series.
If you are looking for a way to fill some time for a few
minutes and would like to fill that time reading and would also like to know if
the Black & White Trilogy is something you would like to read then check
out The Treatment.
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Thank you for these fantastic reviews. They made my day!
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