Book Nook Club: Inside Out by Maria V.Snyder

April 13, 2011

Inside Out by Maria V.Snyder

Keep your head down. Don't get noticed or else. Or else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. One of thousandas who work in the lower levels, keeping inside clean for the uppers. I do my job and try to avoid the pop cops. The Uppers want us to be docile and obedient, like sheep. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak aroudn the upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own. Until a lower lever prophet claims a Gateway to Outside exists.And guess who he wants to steal into the upper levels for proof? You're right. Me. It's suicide plain and simple. But guess who can't let a challenge like that go unasnered? Right again. Me. I should have said no...

This is a young adult dystopian fiction novel. I have read quite a few in this genre, but this one was a little different. It took a little to get into the book, but only because the world Snyder has created is very different to what I am used to from her works. The way they count days/weeks/months/years was hard enough, after a while I gave up trying to work out that math. Trella is a likeable character. She is a loner who at first doesn't seem to care very much for her fellow scrubs, but when they need her she is there for them all, especially her best friend Cog. Trella is a great lead character she isn't afraid to let you see all of her sides, and isn't afraid to say when she has made a mistake. Something that lead female characters are sometimes lacking. Snyder doesn't disappoint with her writting at all. I have been reading her books for several years now and have come to expect a certain something from her stories. This book has delivered more than what I had hoped for. Snyder keeps you guessing throughout the whole book. I love reading a book where the twists and turns are all suprises, some good some bad. I finished this book with the question in my head of "when does the next book come out?'. Luckily its already out, I just need to hunt it down.