Hello Everyone! I am back after a great Winter Break and a great start to the semester, and now that we're a few weeks in... you know what time it is. That's right, it's blogging season again. Today, I will be doing a review on a book I thought did not look good when I first saw it but that opinion has flew out the window. This book is so complex and so interesting that it has kept me on the edge of my seat every time I sit down to read it. It's got many story lines going on at once and sometimes it can be a little hard to follow but then it all comes together in some way, shape or form and voila, you get a great and interesting story plot with some good characters.(Some spoilers ahead)
The multiple story lines really adds some good elements because everything eventually fits together into a puzzle. The book is rather peculiar in where it takes place and when. There is no specified place but the time is hundred of years after the last uprising (which was not stated) but the world has gone to crap and radiation fills the outside air. Even though there is no place, people live in these metal silos that go thousands of feet down into the ground and they live there with a functioning society. Like I said above, there is multiple story lines, it starts out with the sheriff in the silo, Sheriff Holston. He and his Wife discovered the real truth about the silo and she dies trying to get that information out to the people who deserve to know the truth. The beginning takes place 2 years after her death and he is trying to do the same and he is sent out for cleaning (basically to die). The cleaning is where you wear this protective suit and go out into the hazardous world and clean the cameras that let the inside, view the outside. You're given a piece of Wool and asked to clean then you fall over and die because of reasons you'll find out if you read the book. Obviously now, they must find a new sheriff and they go to the strangest of all places to find one, The Deep Down. The Deep Down is where the mechanics work, on levels 132-148 and they find a mechanic who is least qualified (in my opinion) but not in the President and Officers mind. After that, everything starts spiraling down towards a single word that is punishable by death if you speak it in the Silo. Uprising.
I really wish I would talk about my favorite moment in the book that would be a huge spoiler and I'm not going to do that because it should be just as cool for you (If you read it). You'll be in shock if you realize it. It's a great read and I highly recommend it!
Thank you for reading and I'll see you in the next few weeks!
