Pages: 352
Published:October
3rd 2013 by HarperVoyager
Genre: Y.A/ Dystopian
Format: Hardback
Acquired: My own
collection
Date Finished: 1st
December 2013
Synopsis:
On
the floating city of Internment, you can be anything you dream.
Unless you approach the edge.
Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment, the floating city in the clouds where she lives, can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. If she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she takes solace in her best friend, Pen, and in Basil, the boy she’s engaged to marry.
Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially once she meets Judas. Betrothed to the victim, he is the boy being blamed for the murder, but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find – or whom she will lose.
Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment, the floating city in the clouds where she lives, can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. If she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she takes solace in her best friend, Pen, and in Basil, the boy she’s engaged to marry.
Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially once she meets Judas. Betrothed to the victim, he is the boy being blamed for the murder, but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find – or whom she will lose.
Quick thoughts: Riveting, phenomenal a must have read
Perfect
Ruin has to be one of my favourite books of 2013. I had heard little
about it, but enough to grab my attention and I could not stop
thinking about it until I purchased it. Despite my growing half read
book pile I took it with me on a trip away from home [ at one of the
most pivotal points in my life] and read it constantly while I was
away. I could not dare to finish it. I procrastinated for days and
weeks because it was so good I did not want it to end and have to
wait till the next book to come out, but alas I completed it and
already I want to read it again. This is one of those few books I
would happily give everyone a copy of if I could afford it and I can
only hope that Lauren's Chemical Garden Trilogy is this good
because she is one of my new favourite authors.
Why
you might ask?
I
would be happy to tell you to go find out for yourself because words
cannot escape me, but I wanted to express some of my favourite
reasons why I loved this book in hope that it will intrigue you
enough to go out and pick it up for yourself.
First
and foremost is Lauren's world building. To take me away so deeply
that sometimes I forgot that I was reading is a wondrous experience.
Lauren has set up a unique and fantastical world that I cannot wait
to go back to time and time again. A world in the sky where it is
lethal for people to cross the edge, although some people have made
it close enough to know what affect it has. A utopian society that
under the surface is slowly falling apart, becoming damaged, ugly and
destructive.
Then
there are the themes, one of the strongest being religion. Much like
the many of our own we have on earth, Lauren explored the concept of
religion and God beautifully in such a way that it left me as a
reader questioning my own. A reality slowly slipping away, peeling
back the layers of something deadly and so provokingly explored that
I sometimes was at loss for words. The meaning of family, dedication,
love, humanity, freedom, creativity. In a world where you can be
anything, do anything so long as you abide by the rules and mythology
seeping through generations to the present.
Characters
who reach inside you and become your friends, family and enemies and
despite the anger and frustration I felt at times I still cared
enough about all of them. In their own unique ways they bring so much
to the table and offer such exquisite insight into their
personalities and their part in Interment. My favourite had to be
Basil, but I also loved Pen and her creative nature and Lex who
really made me teary and reminiscent of what it is like to have such
tragedy in the family and to live with the things that others have
done. I could go on forever about the characters alone, but meet
them. Love them and despise them. Go on this journey with them.
Language
so poetic and description painted so vividly that you are immediately
swept away. While it touches your every emotion. I had my post it
notes out and there were so many passages that had me smiling,
laughing, crying, bitter – as they say “I went through all the
feels” and it made me want to keep reading onwards even beyond the
last page.
Then
the ending, oh the ending that made me scream, but also left me
feeling beyond excited for the next book to come out. A cliff hanger
yes, but could I ever stop at book one. Hell no, I need it now. I
will be anticipating it in 2014 and I believe the in between novella
comes out after my birthday. Yeah that will be in my birthday box for
sure. Overall it is a memorable, provoking and promising start to the
series. I highly recommend you read it.
