Fighting to survive in a ravaged world, a Dweller and a Savage form an unlikely alliance in New York Times bestselling author Veronica Rossi’s “unforgettable dystopian masterpiece” (Examiner.com).
Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive. A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption.
In alternating chapters told in Aria’s and Perry’s voices, Under the Never Sky subtly and powerfully captures the evolving relationship between these characters and sweeps readers away to a harsh but often beautiful world. Continuing with Through the Ever Night and concluding with Into the Still Blue, the Under the Never Sky trilogy has already been embraced by readers in twenty-six countries and been optioned for film by Warner Bros.
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Sexual Content - 3/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
So I just read this book, and I felt the intense need to write a review detailing how completely WEIRD it was. It's times like these I love this review thing. It's a great place for me to come to terms with the fact that some of the books I read are seriously messed up. Anyways. UTNS was one of those books you pick up that looks supremely awesome, but then you pick it up. And all your dreams of a fabulous, four-star dystopian adventure come to a screeching halt by page nine. The first star I deducted was due to... The prose. Here is an example of the way this book was written: Aria was hungry. Aria ate some food. Perry was tired. Perry lay down. Megan was annoyed. Megan wished the author would use a pronoun. Yeah. Megan deducted a star. The second star came off because of: THE PLOT. I felt like the whole book was just... Random. So first you have these Pod People living under domes in a super-tech universe. Ok, cool. But then on the outside of said universe, you have this massive electro-storm thingie that has unexplained...properties. This storm thing causes fires, electrical storms, and makes people's noses tingle. What is it? How did it appear on planet Earth? Who knows. It sounds cool and it's apparantly a clever plot device. Fine with me. But then... The random happens. You're reading, they're talking about the dome and the outsiders who live under the storm, you know what's happening... And then BOOM. We learn the storm apparently mutates people, giving them X-men powers! Because that TOTALLY makes sense! Aaaaand there goes a star. So in short, this book was a solid three stars for some cool side characters, a mostly-comprehensible plot, and a generally decent idea. It's a decent survival narrative, and it did have some cool fight scenes. If you're really into dystopian fiction, it's a good read for a boring afternoon. I'm reviewing it because it is INCREDIBLY popular and a lot of people will enjoy it. If you're a fan of the X-men, survival stories, or stories about awesome weather, this is your book.
Violence-Some violence like people getting into fights and being burned by fires and getting killed by giant electromagnetic storms
Language-None I can remember
Sexual-There was one sex scene but it was pretty fade-to-black
Drug & Alcohol-Very little