Hello my lovely readers! I finished this book in two days and...whew! Let's get into it.
SYNOPSIS
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.
As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
MY THOUGHTS
I'm still trying to formulate my thoughts on this book.
I guess the first words that come to mind is: dystopian and timeless. This book could've been written in 1932 or 2025. The themes, the setting, the thoughts, the characters are evergreen, which is amazing. It propels me to make sure my work-in-progress novella is something that will endure.
Honestly, nothing really happens in this book, but so much is happening. It's so desolate...so despondent. I wondered throughout the book up until the end, if there was going to be another human life or if we'd get answers about the location and how and why these women had been placed there, but alas nothing. It's just pure science fiction. It's haunting. It's incredibly thought-provoking.
A truly interesting read.
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