Showing posts with label lord of the flies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lord of the flies. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2015

The Bunker Diary

This is one of those books that will haunt you and make you ponder how you would have acted in the characters places. It's like "Lord of the Flies" except possibly worse. It's unfathomably dark and will keep teens (and adults on the edge of their seats.

Sixteen year old Linus wakes up alone, cold, and hungry in an abandoned bunker. There's an empty kitchen, dining room, bathroom, six bedrooms, and an elevator. How will he survive? Can he escape? Will he go mad? As the days turn into weeks, more people find themselves drugged and awakening in the nightmarish bunker. There's a nine year old girl, a junkie, a young career woman, a business man, and an old gay man. Can they work together or will the bunker slowly drive them all insane? What is the point, why are they there?

This is one of those books that I literally yelled out a bunch of expletives when I got to the end. It's maddening. A great read, impossible to put down, that will make readers really think.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Quarantine: The Loners

Imagine you're trapped in your high school with a lethal disease and no communication with the outside world. It's "Lord of the Flies" meets "The Hunger Games." McKinley High School was your typical high school. That is until it became a haven for a highly contagious and lethal virus that kills off all adults. Over one thousand students are trapped in the high school with no adults to reign them in. Quickly everyone splits into cliques. There are the varsitys, the pretty ones, the nerds, the freaks, the geeks, and the nerds. Everyone belongs, well almost everyone. David and his epileptic brother are left to fend for themselves. Will they survive? Will they be able to join forces with other misfits like themselves? This is high school like you've never seen it. Where murder and thieving are accepted in order to survive. Read at your own risk!