Odd Billy Todd
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Odd Billy Todd
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Lane
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By:
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N. C. Reed
Summary
A post-apocalyptic fiction by N.C. Reed.
Billy Todd has always been different. Most people called him odd, and those were the nice people. Though he was born with a learning disability, Billy's parents never allowed him to consider himself disabled. Raised to be self-sufficient, Billy might not be as smart as some, but he was a lot smarter than people realized.
When the entire world is devastated by a plague that kills over 95 percent of the population, Billy is not helpless. Believing he may be the only survivor in his town, he manages to place himself in a good position to survive alone in a new world.
©2015 N.C. Reed (P)2019 Creative Texts Publishers, LLCReally enjoyable
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Fabulous book
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Instead, this is the story of how one person alone in the world became a community of people in the two years immediately after most people had died off due to an illness. It focuses on the realities of trying to survive a world with no infrastructure or laws, learning how to do all the things that you need to survive and build a real life. Billy Todd and the people he slowly gathered around him had to learn to fend entirely for themselves - building, growing, making and scavenging everything they needed while protecting themselves and each other from those who decided that just taking those things from others was the way to go about it.
There were a couple of things that strained a little against the realism for me, the biggest of which was their very small community happened to gather people with the exact skills they needed in order for things to function well long-term. Medical and other highly skilled people like carpenters, ex-soldiers and engineers. That definitely wasn't enough to spoil my enjoyment of the book, though.
The narration was well done with the male narrator making the female characters clear without actually trying to put on a woman's voice. Most of the main male characters had enough differences in their tone and way of speaking that I could differentiate between them without much problem most of the time.
It was also nice to have a main character that was not neuro-typical.
post-apocalyptic realism
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not your normal run of the mill tale but draws you in to the workings of odd billy Todd's mind
propbobly the most wholesome take on a disaster, however it is compelling and very captivating
Great
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It has a bit of a flat ending which crows out for more in the series and judging by the authors other books there are likely to be a number of them (I hope)
Loved the story and looking forward to book 2
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