Doomed by Tracy Deebs

Ebook, 481 pages
Published on January 8, 2013 by Walker Childrens
(Provided for review by blog tour organisator)

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Tracy Deebs collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to forget where—and sometimes who—she is when immersed in a great novel. At six she wrote her first short story—something with a rainbow and a prince—and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. From the first page of that first book, she knew she’d found her life-long love. Now a writing instructor at her local community college, Tracy writes YA novels that run the gamut from dark mermaids and witches to kissing clubs and techno-Armageddon stories… and she still has a soft spot for Judy Blume.

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Pandora, heroine of Doomed, may seem like a rebel with her haircut and multiple piercings but she is just an ordinary girl. In fact, she is usual young adult novel heroine. Neglected by her successful mother. Long ago abandoned by her father. In school Pandora is a loner, except for one best friend. If you love usual tropes of ya novels, you have a lot of things to look forward to while reading this novel.

Although Doomed by Tracy Deebs is advertised as dystopian, I would more label it as post-apocalyptic novel. Pandora opens a website link that her father sent her and, unintentionally uploads a worm/virus to an internet. The next thing she knows - all infrastructures are collapsing: telephone, electricity, internet. The only thing that works is an online game that Pandora sometimes plays. And in this game a new notification is flashing "Total annihilation in 10 days". Pandora has to look for clues everywhere while she is chased by creatures from Greek mythology (in game) and government agents & rebel gangs (real life).

Fortunately for Pandora, she will have help of two handsome boys - Theo and Eli. One dark the other one blond - to satisfy every taste. Yes, love triangle lovers rejoice, there will be a lot of tension and drama and of course Pandora will not pick one of them until the last moment. Because, first they have to beat the game and save the world...

Pandora is very high for an average girl - 183 cm. She has short, spiky red hair with violet streaks, multi-pierced ears and star-shaped nose ring. She usually dresses in jeans, Doc Martens & t-shirts with logos of her favorite bands.

As soon as I read description of Pandora image of Angelina Jolie from movie Hackers got stuck in my head. Although Pandora later in the book turned out to be much less tough than I expected, still I stay with this choice. We only need time machine to get young Angelina and some brown contacts (since her eyes are blue).

Theo is tall, dark and gorgeous. He usually dresses all preppy in button down shirts but he's broody and has a bad-boy hidden (or not so hidden) streak. Piercing blue eyes, black hair, full lips...

My pick for a role of Theo would be Devon Bostick

- he can pull of preppy and dark look. I don't know when he's cuter when he's all proper or has one of those mischievous looks. ;) Here we will need some blue contacts to fix one thing Devon is missing to be a perfect Theo.

Eli is Theo's opposite: green eyes, carefully styled blond hair and a killer smile. He's also tall, broad-shouldered with big hands, feet, biceps etc.

When I needed to think of a blond actor who is a total charmer almost immediately Alex Pettyfer from movie Beastly popped into my head (of course it was his image before the transformation). I think he even has green eyes, so we can save colored-contacts expense. LOL