Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville is a first person novel that switches between two characters by the chapters. The first person is a girl named Marina that lives with her family. The other person is a boy named Jed. They both have a couple things in common including being in the teenage years. Another weird thing is that each of them have one parent that is a believer if Raymond Beelson theories. One day, their parents tells them that the world is to end on july 27 of that year, which is reveled when Jed's dad said
"On July twenty-seventh the world as we know it is going to end."(page 8)
Marina nor Jed really believes that the world is going to end, though Marina finds comfort in the religion while she mourns for her dad, who was left below the mountain in the arms of another lady. Jed's mother ran off to Colorado with a photographer, and Jed's dad has immersed himself in various things since her departure, including this cult.
The thing that is cool about this book is that the end of the world is July 27th which happens to be my birthday also. The leader of the cult, Reverend Beelson, proclaims that the world will end on July 27 in the year 2000, and 144 of the faithful must go to the top of a mountain and set up a camp there. Only those who seek heaven at the top of a mountain will be spared from the fiery wrath that God will rain down upon non-believers. As the cultists prepare for Armageddon, while Marina and Jed happened fall in love during the journey.
So far I think that book is pretty good and am looking forward to finishing the rest of the book because it is interesting to me. What I like about the book the most is that it is written in two prospectives.
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