Fascinating, realistic and impressive world with great perspectives!

The story: Melanie is a little girl who lives in a cell. Their only saving grace are the lessons to which it is confined to a wheelchair and out at gunpoint. Jokingly she says her captors that she does not bite, but find the not so funny. She knows exactly what she wants to do everything, if it is only once grown. But she does not know why her teacher Miss Justineau looks so sad when Melanie told her about it ...

Short Note
To know in this book earlier as little as possible is best. Therefore I would not even look at the German blurb which, although just held, but for my taste suggests too much also. As always, I will tell only the bare necessities to get an idea of ​​the book.
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Melanie knows only life in her little cell. Your classmates are distributed in cells around them, but it is so loud music playing that they can not entertain. She had come up with a sign language, but the teachers had refused to teach it to others. Teaching is the best time for Melanie. They brought out her cell (confined to a wheelchair and under gunpoint) and is taught with their classmates. History, geography, grammar and all there is to learn otherwise. Most of all it is the teaching of Miss Justineau. You will read the children stories before or even bring plants in the class!

For Melanie this life is so natural as breathing. As a reader, you are just appalled and shocked of how these children are being treated. It is clear that there must be a reason. That they must be somehow dangerous. But there are still children! This conflict takes place permanently in the friendly teacher Miss Justineau from, in their perspective, one slips from time to time. By comparison, the scientist Dr. Caldwell is simply callous and calculating. The stationed Sargent is concerned only about his service. But his skills are sure to be the more valuable!

I was, it is surprising that there is already a massive change of scenery after a relatively short time. The first section is marked by routine, concurrent processes and Melanie's thoughts. But shortly afterwards you can look over the whole bigger picture of the world. I thought it was excellent that fast precise and logical answers are presented, though the crucial issues are fully understood at the end. And how clean the author has solved this situation! You would never believe and yet it includes everything from satisfactory. It only remains for me to complain that I was missing in some places a bit of narrative flow and I have changed a bit too often the prospects.

The reader is drawn into a world that is more like a nightmare come true, as everything else. It fluctuates constantly between disgust, pity, but also pragmatism. It is often for mere survival, even if it ugly decisions must be made. This cruel world we see again and again in Melanie's children's eyes and looks again a touch of her beauty. People this time are standing-on-male and yet they have to be careful that they do not trample on getting all newly created again ...

Conclusion: "The Girl with all the Gifts" is an impressive book that you will not soon forget. While it starts still rather timid with Melanie's childish and naive view, but is quickly absorbed significantly. In other perspectives, come new horrors to and an understanding of the behavior of some characters. Class I found how much is explained in healthy portions and yet the big picture is always exciting. By some scientific descriptions is linguistically quite challenging, but fortunately appears already in October the German translation!