Rootless by Chris Howard is a good young adult dystopian novel. This book is set in a world where there are no trees, animals, or any life besides humans. The only thing that grows is genetically modified corn, grown by GenTech. The story follows Banyan, a seventeen-year-old tree builder. Tree builders build trees out of scrap metal for wealthy people who want to remember the trees. The trees disappeared after the Darkness. Banyan’s whole life changes when he thinks he has taken a normal building job from a normal buyer, but he is wrong. His buyer is obsessed with finding real trees. He is convinced they are at a specific coordinate, which can be located by a GPS. Banyan becomes caught up in a whole mess, where he meets the love of his life, the dazzling pirate named Alpha.
My favorite part of this book is the ending battle. This fight was very well described and very action-packed. I recommend this book to all young-adult readers that enjoy dystopian novels. This book is the first in a series, and I cannot wait for the next one. This book was good, but at some parts slow and boring. However, the parts that were not boring were extremely interesting and intriguing. The beginning of the book is particularly slow, and the pace picks up towards the end of the book. Rootless is a great book.
Rootless
In Rootless, we meet Banyan, the protagonist of the books. Banyan, a tree builder, uses metal scraps to build “trees” for people to live in. However, Banyan also looks for his father who has vanished on their journey to the city of Vega. Banyan begins building a tree for the sadistic Frost, when he finds a clue that could lead to his missing father. This is where is journey to find his father gets started
The book suffers from predictability in the book. Everything is a bit to set. You began to expect what will happen next. The setting of the book takes place after a mysterious apocalyptic- event. Known as the Darkness, Howard smartly decides to be ambiguous about what exactly happened, unlike other new time authors who spend too much time building up his world and spends more time focusing on the characters. Trees and all other crops have been ate by superior locusts and GenTec provides the only food in enhanced corn that is not able to be eaten by the locusts.
The cast of characters ranges from Banyan, Alpha, Crow, Frost, Zee, and Sal. Alpha is a girl who is part of a group of pirates. Crow is a man that at time is hard to understand but likeable doing whatever he can for his people. Frost is the main antagonist of the book as both he and Banyan race to find the last trees. Rootless is a book that has very specific taste and is focused more on nature so if you like that then go ahead and buy it.
The book Rootless is about a teenage boy named Banyan who goes on a quest to find his father. Along the way he meets many characters that all become part of the gang in search of the last trees on Earth. I can’t say that Rootless was my favorite book, nor was it among my favorites. The beginning of the book was extremely predictable, and the characters seemed very generic. The writing style of the author, Chris Howard, was somewhat bland and nothing extravagant. This carried on for, what I would say, the first three-fourths of the book. Once the action set in in the last few scenes, though, the story finally took a much-needed, unexpected turn.
Hearing the author speak about his book was a very interesting experience. It seemed as though the story came to him very naturally, but it didn’t look as though he put much thought into developing the story any further. Therefore, the story seemed very raw and underdeveloped. It was comforting to know that the author’s writing style was intentionally grammatically incorrect, although he did use the word “symbology” a lot, which I don’t believe is a real word. Just saying.
I honestly don’t think I can recommend this book to anyone, as the plot was fairly uneventful and the storyline was generic, but you can never tell what a person might enjoy reading. So, if I were to recommend this, I would expect that the story is aimed toward young adults at a similar age to me.
Rootless is by far the worst book that I had ever read. It was boring and almost sent me to sleep. The author, Chris Howard, in my opinion, failed to create suspense throughout the story. The story and plot was at times confusing and unclear. The style of writing in general was very dull. At times the book would present disgusting ecological facts or statements. I found myself turning back pages and sometimes rereading pages four times before I understood the plot.
Overall this book did not appeal to me in particular. I would not recommend this book at all.
Rootless is by Chris Howard and it is an interesting book about a dystopian world in the future. It is about a seventeen year old named Banyan who builds trees because there aren’t any more trees in the world. This is because the darkness comes and after words locusts kill all of the trees and other life. The only plant that can survive is corn that is genetically engineered. This genetic engineered corn is only made my gen tech which is a huge corporation. Banyan sets off on a quest to find his father after he is taken. Once he takes his quest he joins forces with a pirate named Alpha. They go to find a place called the Promised Land or Zion here there are the last remaining trees.
This is a good novel that has action. At first it is slow moving, but as the story progresses it becomes more action packed and exciting. This story is action packed. This is a good dystopian young adult novel. My favorite part of this story was when the characters are making their escape from the Ark. I liked the suspense of the escape and the fights they had trying to escape the giant vehicle.
I would recommend this book to other people. This book I would recommend this story to mostly people that enjoy young adult novels. Also I would recommend this to anyone who likes dystopian novels. I would probably give this novel a decently high rating of four out of five.
Rootless, by Chris Howard, is a story about a 17 year-old named Banyan. Banyan lives in a world where there are neither trees nor animals, just humans. The only food left is genetically modified corn owned by GenTech. Banyan is a tree builder, and he builds trees out of metal. He is hired to build a tree by a man named Frost with a wife who has a tree tattooed on her. Zee, Frost’s wife’s daughter, shows Banyan a picture of his taken father and the last living trees. So, Banyan sets off on an adventure to find his father and the last living trees with Crow, the watcher, Sal, Frost’s son, and Alpha, a pirate he meets along the way. When Banyan arrives at the island where the last living trees are located, he makes some shocking discoveries.
I found Rootless to be an enjoyable book, as it was filled with lots of adventure and action. Although I have read much better books than Rootless and feel it could have been a better book, I believe that Chris Howard did a great job writing Rootless, especially for someone without much writing experience. In my opinion, the plot of Rootless was very creative. I liked how Chris Howard used his knowledge of Aspen trees to come up with the idea of cloning at the end of the book.
My favorite part of the book was the ending. Although I found it to be very strange and different than what I would have expected, I liked how it was very fast paced and full of action. I also liked how Banyan believed his whole life that his mother died in order to save him when he was young, and although that proved to be untrue, in the ending, the Creator did actually throw herself in front of Banyan to save him. If I were to change something it Rootless, I believe I would change the fact that Sal, the Creator, and the clone of the Creator, Hina died. I think that those parts were very sad and could be altered.
I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys action, adventure, and dystopian novels. I believe that many people would enjoy this book and will be excited for the next two books in the series to come out.
Rootless, by Chris Howard, is a post-apocalyptic novel that is about a 17-year -old boy named Banyan. Banyan, like his father, is a “tree-builder” and builds trees using metal scraps. In the world that Banyan lives in, there are no trees nor any animals. There are only humans. GenTech, a company provides the only food, which is genetically modified corn. Frost, the antagonist of the story, hires Banyan to build him a tree. Frost’s wife, Hina, has tattooed on her stomach, a tree. Zee, Hina’s daughter, has a picture of Banyan’s taken father and the last living trees. Banyan, along with Sal and Crow, set off on an adventure to find his father and the trees. Along the way, Banyan meets new people such as Alpha, a pirate.
This book is a fascinating story! I think that Chris Howard did a fabulous job on this book, considering he had little to no experience. Chris Howard combines action, adventure, and romance into one amazing story. This book did contain some gruesome parts, but the author did an amazing job describing it. This book was definitely not one of my favorites, however it is still very well written.
I did not have a favorite part in this novel. Some parts, I did find a tad boring but for the majority of the novel, I was quite entertained. If I had to change a part in this novel, I would change the fact that Sal, Hina, and the Creator died. I found it to be really sad when Sal was thrown into the flames, when Hina was devoured by the locusts, and when the Creator died saving Banyan. Other than that, I think that Chris Howard did a really good job.
I would recommend this book to everyone that liked dystopian novels, with a bit of romance, action and adventure! I am looking forward to the other books in the series!
Rootless, the new young-adult dystopian novel written by Chris Howard, is about a seventeen year-old boy named Banyan who’s a tree-builder. There aren’t many resources as the only food people can eat is corn, which is provided to them by the company GenTech. Banyan builds trees out of metal scraps so that people can be reminded of what life was like when there were real trees. However, Banyan wants to witness a real tree when he learns that they still exist. It takes place some time in the distant future where there are no longer trees available in the world except for the Promised Land. He goes on an adventure to find the only real trees left in the world. Along the way he meets an endearing pirate named Alpha. They make an alliance to get to the Promised Land in order to save the last remaining trees. Banyan learns that his father has been taken to the Promised Land, so he makes a journey to find him. He’s not sure if he can make it there alive without being eaten alive by locusts.
Overall, I thought the book was pretty boring and had little excitement, but it was pretty good for his first published piece. His writing style didn’t provoke any gripping moments, as it was pretty bleak. I was finding myself zoning-out while reading the book and when I started paying attention again, I was confused with what happened in the plot line. Rootless does have some high points however. It wasn’t all boring, and I wouldn’t go to say that it was a terrible book, but it just wasn’t one of my favorites or one I’d recommend. To be honest, the idea of this book didn’t capture my attention as it was about a boy who went on an adventure to find the last living trees. That’s not exactly my cup of tea, but the main concept of this story could possibly intrigue others as not everyone has the same opinion. If I were interested in the idea of nature being involved with the story, it would’ve been an exciting tale.
I’d recommend this book to people who have an interest in nature mixed with dystopian genres because the whole plot of the story is about Banyan trying to find the last living trees on earth. Also, it does have snippets of action within the plot, and those scenes I found fairly interesting. It wouldn’t be something I’d highly recommend. In conclusion, I’d like to say that it was a “decent” read. ~Amy Sukserm
Rootless, by Chris Howard, is about a seventeen-year old, Banyan, who is scraping along by creating forests of scrap metal. He learned how to recreate the, now extinct, trees that many rich civilians long for. The crave for nature has driven a select few to try to kind the last forest of trees left in the world. As for Banyan, all this seems to be a legend, until he discovers a photograph of his father tied to a living tree. He immediately seeks to find his lost father, and happens to run by many people who may have a clue to finding the hidden land containing the last trees. Along the way, Banyan manages to escape many near death experiences provided by the harsh corporation, GenTech. Banyan uncovers the secret behind the trees and discovers what ideas have been brewing in the minds of the multi-billion dollar company.
Rootless wasn’t one of my favorite books because the characters aren’t given much characterization and the plot-line is difficult to follow. Howard seems to have mixed many different time periods and combined them in a futuristic century. I am not too fond of have novels being “old” but new to the extent where the reader doesn’t fully understand why everything has happened this way. I found that the basic plot was interesting, but the way it was written didn’t appeal to me. Plus, Howard didn’t describe scenes or make the reader infer what happened. Instead, he bluntly wrote what he wanted to depict. I wouldn’t recommend this book to many people, because some may find it a bit lacking in areas, but it is a mediocre book to read if one wants to read something out-of-the-ordinary.
~Lia
TPSreads 
Rootless by Chris Howard is a good young adult dystopian novel. This book is set in a world where there are no trees, animals, or any life besides humans. The only thing that grows is genetically modified corn, grown by GenTech. The story follows Banyan, a seventeen-year-old tree builder. Tree builders build trees out of scrap metal for wealthy people who want to remember the trees. The trees disappeared after the Darkness. Banyan’s whole life changes when he thinks he has taken a normal building job from a normal buyer, but he is wrong. His buyer is obsessed with finding real trees. He is convinced they are at a specific coordinate, which can be located by a GPS. Banyan becomes caught up in a whole mess, where he meets the love of his life, the dazzling pirate named Alpha.
My favorite part of this book is the ending battle. This fight was very well described and very action-packed. I recommend this book to all young-adult readers that enjoy dystopian novels. This book is the first in a series, and I cannot wait for the next one. This book was good, but at some parts slow and boring. However, the parts that were not boring were extremely interesting and intriguing. The beginning of the book is particularly slow, and the pace picks up towards the end of the book. Rootless is a great book.
LikeLike
Rootless
In Rootless, we meet Banyan, the protagonist of the books. Banyan, a tree builder, uses metal scraps to build “trees” for people to live in. However, Banyan also looks for his father who has vanished on their journey to the city of Vega. Banyan begins building a tree for the sadistic Frost, when he finds a clue that could lead to his missing father. This is where is journey to find his father gets started
The book suffers from predictability in the book. Everything is a bit to set. You began to expect what will happen next. The setting of the book takes place after a mysterious apocalyptic- event. Known as the Darkness, Howard smartly decides to be ambiguous about what exactly happened, unlike other new time authors who spend too much time building up his world and spends more time focusing on the characters. Trees and all other crops have been ate by superior locusts and GenTec provides the only food in enhanced corn that is not able to be eaten by the locusts.
The cast of characters ranges from Banyan, Alpha, Crow, Frost, Zee, and Sal. Alpha is a girl who is part of a group of pirates. Crow is a man that at time is hard to understand but likeable doing whatever he can for his people. Frost is the main antagonist of the book as both he and Banyan race to find the last trees. Rootless is a book that has very specific taste and is focused more on nature so if you like that then go ahead and buy it.
LikeLike
The book Rootless is about a teenage boy named Banyan who goes on a quest to find his father. Along the way he meets many characters that all become part of the gang in search of the last trees on Earth. I can’t say that Rootless was my favorite book, nor was it among my favorites. The beginning of the book was extremely predictable, and the characters seemed very generic. The writing style of the author, Chris Howard, was somewhat bland and nothing extravagant. This carried on for, what I would say, the first three-fourths of the book. Once the action set in in the last few scenes, though, the story finally took a much-needed, unexpected turn.
Hearing the author speak about his book was a very interesting experience. It seemed as though the story came to him very naturally, but it didn’t look as though he put much thought into developing the story any further. Therefore, the story seemed very raw and underdeveloped. It was comforting to know that the author’s writing style was intentionally grammatically incorrect, although he did use the word “symbology” a lot, which I don’t believe is a real word. Just saying.
I honestly don’t think I can recommend this book to anyone, as the plot was fairly uneventful and the storyline was generic, but you can never tell what a person might enjoy reading. So, if I were to recommend this, I would expect that the story is aimed toward young adults at a similar age to me.
LikeLike
Rootless is by far the worst book that I had ever read. It was boring and almost sent me to sleep. The author, Chris Howard, in my opinion, failed to create suspense throughout the story. The story and plot was at times confusing and unclear. The style of writing in general was very dull. At times the book would present disgusting ecological facts or statements. I found myself turning back pages and sometimes rereading pages four times before I understood the plot.
Overall this book did not appeal to me in particular. I would not recommend this book at all.
LikeLike
Rootless is by Chris Howard and it is an interesting book about a dystopian world in the future. It is about a seventeen year old named Banyan who builds trees because there aren’t any more trees in the world. This is because the darkness comes and after words locusts kill all of the trees and other life. The only plant that can survive is corn that is genetically engineered. This genetic engineered corn is only made my gen tech which is a huge corporation. Banyan sets off on a quest to find his father after he is taken. Once he takes his quest he joins forces with a pirate named Alpha. They go to find a place called the Promised Land or Zion here there are the last remaining trees.
This is a good novel that has action. At first it is slow moving, but as the story progresses it becomes more action packed and exciting. This story is action packed. This is a good dystopian young adult novel. My favorite part of this story was when the characters are making their escape from the Ark. I liked the suspense of the escape and the fights they had trying to escape the giant vehicle.
I would recommend this book to other people. This book I would recommend this story to mostly people that enjoy young adult novels. Also I would recommend this to anyone who likes dystopian novels. I would probably give this novel a decently high rating of four out of five.
LikeLike
Rootless, by Chris Howard, is a story about a 17 year-old named Banyan. Banyan lives in a world where there are neither trees nor animals, just humans. The only food left is genetically modified corn owned by GenTech. Banyan is a tree builder, and he builds trees out of metal. He is hired to build a tree by a man named Frost with a wife who has a tree tattooed on her. Zee, Frost’s wife’s daughter, shows Banyan a picture of his taken father and the last living trees. So, Banyan sets off on an adventure to find his father and the last living trees with Crow, the watcher, Sal, Frost’s son, and Alpha, a pirate he meets along the way. When Banyan arrives at the island where the last living trees are located, he makes some shocking discoveries.
I found Rootless to be an enjoyable book, as it was filled with lots of adventure and action. Although I have read much better books than Rootless and feel it could have been a better book, I believe that Chris Howard did a great job writing Rootless, especially for someone without much writing experience. In my opinion, the plot of Rootless was very creative. I liked how Chris Howard used his knowledge of Aspen trees to come up with the idea of cloning at the end of the book.
My favorite part of the book was the ending. Although I found it to be very strange and different than what I would have expected, I liked how it was very fast paced and full of action. I also liked how Banyan believed his whole life that his mother died in order to save him when he was young, and although that proved to be untrue, in the ending, the Creator did actually throw herself in front of Banyan to save him. If I were to change something it Rootless, I believe I would change the fact that Sal, the Creator, and the clone of the Creator, Hina died. I think that those parts were very sad and could be altered.
I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys action, adventure, and dystopian novels. I believe that many people would enjoy this book and will be excited for the next two books in the series to come out.
LikeLike
Rootless, by Chris Howard, is a post-apocalyptic novel that is about a 17-year -old boy named Banyan. Banyan, like his father, is a “tree-builder” and builds trees using metal scraps. In the world that Banyan lives in, there are no trees nor any animals. There are only humans. GenTech, a company provides the only food, which is genetically modified corn. Frost, the antagonist of the story, hires Banyan to build him a tree. Frost’s wife, Hina, has tattooed on her stomach, a tree. Zee, Hina’s daughter, has a picture of Banyan’s taken father and the last living trees. Banyan, along with Sal and Crow, set off on an adventure to find his father and the trees. Along the way, Banyan meets new people such as Alpha, a pirate.
This book is a fascinating story! I think that Chris Howard did a fabulous job on this book, considering he had little to no experience. Chris Howard combines action, adventure, and romance into one amazing story. This book did contain some gruesome parts, but the author did an amazing job describing it. This book was definitely not one of my favorites, however it is still very well written.
I did not have a favorite part in this novel. Some parts, I did find a tad boring but for the majority of the novel, I was quite entertained. If I had to change a part in this novel, I would change the fact that Sal, Hina, and the Creator died. I found it to be really sad when Sal was thrown into the flames, when Hina was devoured by the locusts, and when the Creator died saving Banyan. Other than that, I think that Chris Howard did a really good job.
I would recommend this book to everyone that liked dystopian novels, with a bit of romance, action and adventure! I am looking forward to the other books in the series!
LikeLike
Rootless, the new young-adult dystopian novel written by Chris Howard, is about a seventeen year-old boy named Banyan who’s a tree-builder. There aren’t many resources as the only food people can eat is corn, which is provided to them by the company GenTech. Banyan builds trees out of metal scraps so that people can be reminded of what life was like when there were real trees. However, Banyan wants to witness a real tree when he learns that they still exist. It takes place some time in the distant future where there are no longer trees available in the world except for the Promised Land. He goes on an adventure to find the only real trees left in the world. Along the way he meets an endearing pirate named Alpha. They make an alliance to get to the Promised Land in order to save the last remaining trees. Banyan learns that his father has been taken to the Promised Land, so he makes a journey to find him. He’s not sure if he can make it there alive without being eaten alive by locusts.
Overall, I thought the book was pretty boring and had little excitement, but it was pretty good for his first published piece. His writing style didn’t provoke any gripping moments, as it was pretty bleak. I was finding myself zoning-out while reading the book and when I started paying attention again, I was confused with what happened in the plot line. Rootless does have some high points however. It wasn’t all boring, and I wouldn’t go to say that it was a terrible book, but it just wasn’t one of my favorites or one I’d recommend. To be honest, the idea of this book didn’t capture my attention as it was about a boy who went on an adventure to find the last living trees. That’s not exactly my cup of tea, but the main concept of this story could possibly intrigue others as not everyone has the same opinion. If I were interested in the idea of nature being involved with the story, it would’ve been an exciting tale.
I’d recommend this book to people who have an interest in nature mixed with dystopian genres because the whole plot of the story is about Banyan trying to find the last living trees on earth. Also, it does have snippets of action within the plot, and those scenes I found fairly interesting. It wouldn’t be something I’d highly recommend. In conclusion, I’d like to say that it was a “decent” read. ~Amy Sukserm
LikeLike
Rootless, by Chris Howard, is about a seventeen-year old, Banyan, who is scraping along by creating forests of scrap metal. He learned how to recreate the, now extinct, trees that many rich civilians long for. The crave for nature has driven a select few to try to kind the last forest of trees left in the world. As for Banyan, all this seems to be a legend, until he discovers a photograph of his father tied to a living tree. He immediately seeks to find his lost father, and happens to run by many people who may have a clue to finding the hidden land containing the last trees. Along the way, Banyan manages to escape many near death experiences provided by the harsh corporation, GenTech. Banyan uncovers the secret behind the trees and discovers what ideas have been brewing in the minds of the multi-billion dollar company.
Rootless wasn’t one of my favorite books because the characters aren’t given much characterization and the plot-line is difficult to follow. Howard seems to have mixed many different time periods and combined them in a futuristic century. I am not too fond of have novels being “old” but new to the extent where the reader doesn’t fully understand why everything has happened this way. I found that the basic plot was interesting, but the way it was written didn’t appeal to me. Plus, Howard didn’t describe scenes or make the reader infer what happened. Instead, he bluntly wrote what he wanted to depict. I wouldn’t recommend this book to many people, because some may find it a bit lacking in areas, but it is a mediocre book to read if one wants to read something out-of-the-ordinary.
~Lia
LikeLike