It's all about trusting the father and being loyal to each other. It's like a trail of bread crumbs leading up to some truth that you never see coming.Family: One thing this story does focus on is on family. Each chapter brings forth new details in which you can't help but follow. How they live, eat and the things they do to keep themselves busy makes me wonder what is going on topside. Learning how they got down there in the first place, really puts the reader in the characters shoes. I want to know what happen down there and most of all, I want to know how it all started.Plot: This story is really well written in dialogue and back round history.
Being trapped in a compound for years captures me. “Suspenseful and riveting, this debut novel raises serious issues about what it means to survive.Gearing up for a different read, I pick up this book because the synopsis intrigued me. Combining elements of Margaret Peterson Haddixs Running Out of Time (1995) and Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go (2005), published for adults, this post-apocalyptic thriller will also pique the interest of Nancy Werlin and L.J. “Debut novelist Bodeen effectively builds the claustrophobic suspense with each chapter as readers slowly discover the Compound is not the refuge it seems. The audience will feel the pressure closing in on them as they, like the characters, race through hairpin turns in the plot toward a breathless climax.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review As far-fetched as the premise may be, Bodeen keeps Eli's actions true to life and uses clues planted fairly and in plain sight.
Repulsed and already suspicious, Eli begins investigating his father's claims, and sets up a family death match against a man who grows increasingly irrational and sinister but no less powerful. With nine years to go before the air outside will be safe to breathe again, the food supply shows signs of running out, but Eli's father has a solution-provided they jettison all morals and ethics. Eli, the 15-year-old son of a billionaire techno-preneur, has spent the last six years with his family in the massive underground shelter his father has built, knowing that nuclear war has destroyed the world he knows-and killed his grandmother and his twin brother, who couldn't reach the compound in time.
“Bodeen, acclaimed as the writer of such picture books as Elizabeti's Doll, turns out a high-wire act of a first novel, a thriller that exerts an ever-tighter grip on readers.
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