Published
on December 6, 2013
454 pages
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Deep inside
a mountain in what used to be North America dwells the last of humanity.
Welcome to the Biodome, where steel, rock and armed guards separate the privileged
from the slaves ...
Born and raised as a slave in the Pit, Sunny O’Donnell has always accepted that
she'll spend her life working to keep the Dome running and, if she lives long
enough, willingly meet her end in the annual Cull when she reaches the age of
thirty-five. This was the price her ancestors paid for their place inside the
Biodome, the only haven from the global nuclear war of 2024.
But when Sunny’s mother is killed in the Cull, the hopeless reality of her
existence becomes painfully clear. Bereft and disillusioned, she heads down a
reckless path that sets off a riot in the Pit and leaves her accused of
treason. Her only way of escaping public execution is to make a truce with her
prison mate, who happens to be the heir to the dictatorship and hated enemy of
the Pit.
Now caught between two worlds on the brink of war, Sunny must weigh her own
survival against risking everything to save the Pit.
My
review
I read it
the first time when I did not have a blog nor a Facebook page, but with the plagiarism
saga that is happening right now, I thought it would be a good time to write a
review. It’s a trilogy, but it’s the first book that got me into the dystopian
genre. If you like Hunger Games, I highly recommend you this book that you can
still find on Amazon.
It did not
hit me the first time, but the nuclear war happens two years from now and with
what happens in the last three years, it gave me shivers thinking that this
world might became real just by watching how humans are acting. The ecologist
in me thought a lot while I was reading. The second thing that scared me,
people were culled at 35 which means that if I was in the book, I would be
death since a while. I hope we will never reach this point, but who knows how
many people there will be on the planet in 200 years.
Sunny is a
sweetheart who can also bite. Her dad and her best friend were the two most
important people in her life before the events happens. I thought she was too
innocent at the beginning and then I realized she is only 17. In this world,
you were already married and a parent at this age, but I feel like she needed
to grew up a little bit. Unfortunately, she had to meet Jake and all hell brake
loose before she became a full adult.
Jake is
also full of surprises. I thought he was teaming with his fiancé, but he only
wanted to become president to change the world for the better. People who are
living in the Pit does have a great life. They have low paying jobs and have to
do what rich people does not want to do. Speaking about it, the only negative
point I found about this novel are the details. The author put too many so the
reader can believe what was happening, but I did not need so many descriptions
about how to cleans clothes.
Some people
said the story was predicable, I do not think so. The author surprises me a few
times even though I read it a few years ago. The world building is amazing. I
feel like it asked the author lots of energy and time to create it. Like I
said, I have shivers thinking it might come true. I was not a fan of politic
during my first reading, but it’s a part of the story I found interesting. The
author do not spend lot of time on it, but just enough that I promise myself to
do my research (on real website) next time I will vote. If you do not like
romance, you might give it a chance because it’s not the main point. I did not
like Sunny’s boyfriend at first and my opinion did not change after the last
chapter. I prefer Jake since he escape with her and try his best to protect
her.
Excerpts
When they
signed the treaty, they never could have envisioned how much it would change
over the centuries. Under the original terms, a person living in the Pit wasn’t
obligated to join the Cull until the age of fifty. But as our population grew,
the bourgeoisie, or " bourge ", as we
called them, lowered our death sentence to thirty-five. (p.2)
I
recognized many classics I had learned about in school but never read, like Pride
and Prejudice and Paradise lost. (p.85)
" The Cull happens every spring.
Who’s going to name their daughter after that? Use Autumn. " (p.135)
"…Lockdowns might seem like a
peaceful break while they’re happening, but the work keeps piling up, and we
have to stay on top of it. " (p.199)
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