Review: Truly worth remembering
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2012
Could you imagine waking up, out of nowhere, in a room that defies physics and the only way to survive the mysteries surrounding you is to run? What if you had assistance in the form of a voice in your head (and were still sane, by the way) and couldn't answer all your questions at once?If you think that sounds strange, that's not even scratching the surface, and is barely the beginning. Multiple rooms with different ways of defying all that is normal, different brutal challenges going on, this was one young adult novel I loved recently (in a way, I thought of it as a more explicitly sci-fi Hunger Games with only one person on a challenge for his life and not having to kill anyone, so it's no rip-off, it's its own unique thing with reminescence). With question answered, I ended up learning one important thing I should've learned with Robin's Dominion Trilogy- to give up trying to predict just what is going to happen and what overall is going on.Until the very end, from twist to jaw-dropping twist, the little moments that make Troy and his assistant all the more human in an inhumane world, this was a total joyride that managed to spike my adrenaline at the thought of what all was happening. In the end, I gave up predicting and went with the ride only to be floored with the last few pages.