As Blythe’s dream of going home hangs in the balance, she faces the ultimate choice-between survival and freedom. Years later, their lives are ambushed by an event at once promising and devastating. Determined to give the boy everything she has lost, she pushes aside the truth about a world he may never see for a myth that just might give meaning to their lives below ground. But nothing prepares Blythe for the burden of raising a child in confinement. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles in-the crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give up. I thought for sure the novel was going to be similar to Room, by Emma Donaghue, but although the very core of the premise is the same, many things are different, down to the personality of Blythe's captor to what happens when she gets out of her prison.īlythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. I received this book off of NetGalley to review, and then was fortunate enough to receive a hard-copy from the publisher as well. What kind of things to people put in a place like this? How far underground am I? There were a lot of stairs and a long passage that kept making sharp left and right turns. This is not any kind of place you'd put a person. And Daddy would be chiding Gerhard, but only halfheartedly, because there's nothing better than spooking girls.īut this is not home. Gerhard would have the flashlight under his chin, his bottom teeth thrust outward and his eyes crossed and buggy, and Suzie would be getting all hysterical, and if he really were the bogeyman.
If this were home, Mama would be feeling her way to the pantry for the lantern and the matches she keeps on top shelf.
The electricity's gone out give it a minute.
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