Darkness, Be My Friend :: Darkness, Be My Friend

Darkness, Be My Friend   Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsdens series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The troika Day, The Frost, in which seven young people be thr suffer into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part of their district. They find their way into a remote basin surrounded by dangerous cliffs and difficult terrain, where they are completely safe and cut off from the rest of the world. When the teenagers return to their homes, they find that all the families in the district were abducted and locked into the show grounds by armed soldiers who are taking over Australia. After finding this, they go on to perform numerous terrorist activities around the district to hamper the enemys progress. These including blowing up a bridge on a major convoy route, attacking an important bay used for supplies and in Dar kness, Be My Friend, the teenagers set out from New Zealand to assist a dainty group of elite New Zealand soldiers attack the new airbase that has been built in their town. In this book, the New Zealand soldiers disappear without a trace and the teenagers have to attack the airbase themsleves_   I think that this book is as much about adventure and survival as it is about emotions, friendships and relationships. The book is written as the diary of the unofficial leader of the group and she speaks a lot about her thoughts, her relationships with the other members of the group and of her emotions about what she was forced to do during the course of the war.   "I was determined I wasnt going to amaze angry, so I ignored that. I didnt blame him in a way. If only I could have understood what was going on in my own mind_ but I found that difficult at the best of times."   "It was nothing to do with Lee. I still liked him a lot. Id got over th ose feelings Id had ages ago, the negative feelings