Monument 14, Emmy Laybourne
Monument 14, Emmy Laybourne
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Monument 14

Author: Emmy Laybourne

Narrator: Todd Haberkorn

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2012


Synopsis

Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only, if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong. In Emmy Laybourne's action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart.

About Emmy Laybourne

Emmy Laybourne is a writer and actress. She has appeared in movies like Superstar and The In-Laws and has performed original comedy on Comedy Central, MTV, VH1 and with UCB and Chicago City Limits. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband and their two children. Monument 14 is her fiction debut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on March 03, 2020

this 4 is a 3.5, just so you know. because i trashed the last book i read from this publisher, i felt bad enough about it to round it up to a four. such is my guilt complex. and this book is fun, it really is. so we have a massive hailstorm that destroys the school buses our protags are taking to sch......more

Goodreads review by Aj the Ravenous Reader on August 23, 2016

Maybe 3.5? I'm still not sure.^^ I’m not very good at Science so I’m not the best person to ascertain the plausibility of a natural disaster consisting of a volcano erupting causing mega-tsunamis inducing hailstorms and causing chemical damage to air which if inhaled by people will result to various......more

Goodreads review by Jessie Leigh on May 20, 2012

Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog! Monument 14 seems to have a lot of things going for it: killing hailstorms, a bus explosion, death and abundant destruction... and all that's just within the three chapters of the novel. This sounds like an action-packed read and like a thrill-ride from tha......more

Goodreads review by Giselle on June 08, 2012

We should all know by now, being stuck in a mall - or a superstore in this case - never EVER ends well. We've all had fantasies as children, imagining the awesome possibilities. Well, it's not all it's cracked up to be! Horror movies tell the truth! So yes, I was super intrigued by the premise of Mo......more

Goodreads review by Maja (The Nocturnal Library) on May 08, 2013

Lately, I’ve been growing increasingly tired of all the apocalypse scenarios we’re being bombarded with. Getting me to read one without whining too hard is no small feat, my friends. But even though Monument 14 has been getting some very mixed reviews, I felt weirdly drawn to it from the start and s......more