the city of gold and lead by john christopher

This book contains the trope that basically ALL post-apocalyptic Teen Young reader books have since about 2000 or so.

That means journeying to the Tripod capital: the City of Gold and Lead. In order to save everyone else, Will and his friends want to take down the Tripods once and for all. But once there, they wonder about the world around them and how they are faring against the machines. They’d found a safe haven where the mechanical monsters called Tripods could not find them. When Will and his friends arrived at the White Mountains, they thought everything would be okay.

Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods-and risk their lives-in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. On the way, they faced many hardships, and managed to actually kill one of the beasts, but the real challenge is yet to come. These caps result in making the recipients feel no need to rebel against their captors and selflessly serve them if at all necessary. Tripods lord over humanity, forcing everyone over the age of 15 to have a procedure done called “capping” wherein a metal mess crown is applied to a persons head. In their world (in around 2089), the earth has been over-run and controlled by a race of strange three-legged machines called “Tripods”. The first book is a tale of three teenagers named Will, Henry, and Jean-Paul as they are questing towards the fabled “White Mountains” in Europe in order to live as free men. Considering most kid’s books nowadays don’t really do this, I feel reading classics like this is important. For example, the main characters don’t always do everything that is morally right due to their quest for survival, and usually the book talks about it in a way that shows they know what they have done is wrong. They are good books for older kids or young teens because they have some pretty solid adventure content, as well as some lessons kids can learn. There are four books in the series, and they are fairly quick reads due to being “young readers” books before that was even thing (as these came out in the last 60s). After getting back into Watching The Tripods television show from the BBC in 1984, I have decided to get back into trying to finish up the book series that is based on.

The city of gold and lead by john christopher