Review: If it is a war, it is a war against bad ideas
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2013
" Any human who wants to seize power over the consciences of others, Leah, is unqualified to hold and exercise that power."History past in both the Silo and in our world has seen uprisings against those in control that have left both sides completely devastated, bloodied and destroyed. The grab for land and power and control usually ends up leaving a vacuum of power and control. But what if that resistance were not an army, but an army of people who wanted nothing more than to express their thoughts, dreams and hopes in written form. What would that kind of uprising look like?Come along and join Michael Bunker as he takes us through the Silo Archipelago Series and this third and final installment, "RENEW". In this book, we see young Leah being taken to the down deep of the silo, to what appears to be the deepest, darkest time in her life. she has been drugged and locked up, her friends are facing certain death in the cleaning. It is only in this down deep that she discovers the truth. The truth that will set her free. She learns  who she is and who her father is, and so much more.Once she has been set free from the veil of lies she has lived in her entire life in the silo, she begins to move up through the silo. With other like minded people, the silo begins to be infused with the truth as the somewhat silent revolution begins from the down deep up to the tippy-top.While this can certainly result in an uprising, I prefer to think of it more as an awakening. People, who never even knew they were asleep, waking up to the reality of their slumber and taking action to free them selves from a captivity they never knew existed. While strictly fiction, I think it is time for us to wake up and realize the captivity we are in and fight like never before for our own freedom. It is time to climb out of the silo.When I came to the end of the series, I found myself wanting more, waiting for someone to tie a neat bow on it and call it done. But, like life itself, it can never be "done". We take the truths we learn and pass them on to the next generation. Truth will never be finished, but merely passed forward, like boxes of books being passed upward through the silo to finally burst forward into the light.A great book that I will be reading again and certainly giving much thought to.