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Enclave
Enclave
Enclave
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Enclave

Written by Ann Aguirre

Narrated by Emily Bauer

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel Enclave is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy. When she and Fade discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters--or Freaks--who seem to be growing more organized, the elders refuse to listen to warnings. And when Deuce and Fade are exiled from the enclave, the girl born in darkness must survive in daylight--guided by Fade's long-ago memories--in the ruins of a city whose population has dwindled to a few dangerous gangs.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 12, 2011
ISBN9781427211217
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Ann Aguirre

ANN AGUIRRE is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author and RITA winner with a degree in English literature. She lives in sunny Mexico with her husband, children, and various pets. She likes books, emo music, and action movies. She writes all kinds of genre fiction for adults and teens, including the Razorland series and Like Never and Always.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Really enjoyed this apocalyptic story of a girl surviving underground. 25 is old age... And when the rules are broken, she's cast out, along with her hunting partner. They emerge to a different world on the surface with wonders she has never seen, as well as different dangers.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Why did I wait so long to read this book? It’s amazing! I have been in a reading slump lately and this book has brought me right out of it. I flew through it in one day. I can’t even remember the last time I read a book in one day.Everything about Enclave is perfect. I loved the characters, the plot, the writing, everything. I loved everything. I have no complaints. This is the best book I’ve read in a very long time. I need the next book right now.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a quick and easy read. Not a lot of strange post apocalyptic zombie language. Though some adult ideas are eluded to, but never specified. I can’t help but this this is a 6th grade dystopian trilogy. The characterization has to be only 14, due to some of her immature language and thoughts. Not too much in the romance department, but I foresee someone’s first kiss and heavy romance !!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Let me start off by saying in really enjoyed this book, but felt the author downplayed the personal interactions between the characters to the point where they were unsatisfying. Deuce is perpetually "confused" or "angry" at noticing her emotions and doesn't seem to really encounter any personal growth. This I found to be the most frustrating. Everything else was great! The descriptions of the ghosted city were chilling and the characters' interactions with "relics" from the old days which they do not recognize but the reader will are awsesomely creepy. The storytelling is visceral and fast paced, leaving you wanting to read just one more page. Aguirre's zombies are creepy on another level since they retain traces of the humans they once were. I'd love to read more about Duece's and Fade's fates and how they fare after the story is over. Hopefully there will be a sequel equally as enjoyable. :)
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Deuce has known nothing in her life but her small community, a small pocket of people in a vast network of tunnels beneath the earth. Generations ago, something bad happened on the surface, and to go above ground means certain death. So she is told; so they all believe.

    The enclave is tight-knit and lives by strict rules. Outsiders are regarded with distrust, although there is some interaction with other enclaves. Deuce's role is that of a Huntress: she is required to venture through the tunnels in search of sustenance. She has had to undergo intense weapons training, as wild creatures populate the dark recesses of the tunnel between enclaves: creatures that look almost human, but that hunt down and feast on humans with wild abandon.

    The enclave perpetuates itself using the mythology of the deadly above-ground world, the prescribed roles its populace must fit into, and on dire repercussions against those who do not conform.

    When Deuce, influenced by an outsider who has joined the enclave, begins to question the moral code by which she has always lived, she soon finds herself forced into an existence she could never have imagined. One that will take her beyond her small community, into the far reaches of the tunnels, and perhaps even farther into the unknown.

    I enjoyed Enclave, but it was not as compelling as I'd hoped. I felt as though I had encountered many of the same elements in other, better-constructed post-apocalyptic tales. And though the book built and built as Deuce struggled to survive, I had a strange disconnected feeling as I realized that we weren't going to be returning to the enclave or its inhabitants, to see that small world evolve or change. Instead, there was a strange and seemingly out-of-place encounter with the spirit world, and what I felt was a predictable scramble to find safety. Though I pulled for Deuce's survival, I just didn't feel that strongly about her journey.

    This is the first in a series, and I will read on and hope that Deuce's journey becomes more tied to changing her world, rather than mainly a reaction to that world.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I didn’t get into this book right away, but I’m glad I stuck it out because I ended up really enjoying it. It is set in the future, generations after some apocalyptic event has driven people underground, and people live within societies known as enclaves. Each enclave has its own rules and it takes days of running in the tunnels to get to the next settlement. The tunnels are infested with Freaks, zombie-like creatures who feed on meat, animal and human alike.Deuce has only ever known life in the enclave, but soon after being initiated as a Huntress, she begins to question the methods of her society. When she and her hunting partner Fade are banished from the enclave, they make their way topside – the place where Deuce was always taught could not sustain human life and the place where Fade came from.While there are certainly parallels to other books of this genre, it is different enough that you don’t feel like you’re reading something you have already read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    As i don't much like post-apocalyptic novels very much at all, I'd have to say I was not the target audience. At all. It was much less depressing than many of its ilk, reminiscent of The City of Ember rather than the hideously depressing thing I read in middle school.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Honestly, the writing's not that great, but the story has stayed with me, so I'm kind of impressed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Teen fiction; post-apocalyptic dystopia action/romance (more action than romance, but this is only the first of the series). Awesome, and gritty enough to satisfy boys as well as girls (battle wounds! dark sides of humanity!)--would definitely recommend to Hunger Games fans.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Somehow my rating and review for this book was lost. Since I read it years ago, my review isn't going to be as detailed as before.

    I remember liking the book and it was an easy read. I did like the main character, she wasn't annoying at all. She's strong and a fighter. I like the direction the book took and seeing the journey and the hardships that Deuce gets past.

    I remember where the book left off and I liked it, it was a good ending and a good way to start the next book.

    There is tons of young adult dystopian novels out these days and if anybody is looking for something new to read, I would pick this one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a quick and easy read. Not a lot of strange post apocalyptic zombie language. Though some adult ideas are eluded to, but never specified. I can’t help but this this is a 6th grade dystopian trilogy. The characterization has to be only 14, due to some of her immature language and thoughts. Not too much in the romance department, but I foresee someone’s first kiss and heavy romance !!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    After a somewhat disappointing encounter with Grimspace a couple of years ago, I was wary about reading anything more from Aguirre, but the concept of this book intrigued me – so I decided to take the plunge. Well, it was quite a pleasant surprise: the story drew me in immediately, to the point that I finished the book over a weekend – and I decided to give the Jax saga another try, on the chance that I might have started it on an "off" day.

    The second half of Enclave seemed a little hurried, though, and somewhat... unfinished, for want of a better word, as if the author were in a hurry to move forward to the next book: it felt particularly jarring after the fascinating details of life in the tunnels and the social dynamics created by that situation. My main point of contention comes from the addition of Stalker and the quick turnaround from wild-pack leader to useful team player: it seems a little contrived and IMHO it should have evolved over a longer time-span.

    On the other hand, Deuce's "voice" is quite compelling and it drew me into the story very quickly, so all things considered this was a fascinating read, that made me interested in the sequel.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is the first in a new YA series. I found the first book to be engaging as you learn about the dystopian, future world through, Deuce.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Why did I wait so long to read this book? It’s amazing! I have been in a reading slump lately and this book has brought me right out of it. I flew through it in one day. I can’t even remember the last time I read a book in one day.Everything about Enclave is perfect. I loved the characters, the plot, the writing, everything. I loved everything. I have no complaints. This is the best book I’ve read in a very long time. I need the next book right now.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Enclave started out okay, a relatively bland but entertaining enough post-apocalyptic tale of Deuce, who lives underground in the ruins of the subway tunnels of New York City, and her new hunting partner, Fade. They discover that the elders in their Enclave might not be so wise after all, and they end up being exiled to "Topside," or aboveground - a place that is rumoured to be incredibly toxic, killing anyone who spends just a few minutes in Topside. Like I said, the book was okay - predictable, sure, but not a bad way to spend the afternoon if you're looking for a decent read that you'll likely forget much of as soon as you finish the series. But then it got real bad real fast.The first little nugget of joy was on page 153. Deuce and Fade are captured by a gang (more on THEM later) and separated from one another. Deuce, already told by Fade that she'd likely be raped if a gang took them captive, is quite aware of what her fate might be - and she is quite aware, also, about what has happened to the girl who is dressing her, Tegan, a captive of the gang who is covered in bruises. In Deuce's mind, as Tegan unbinds Deuce's feet but keeps her wrists bound, she says (all emphasis rendered as in original text): "She left my hands tied. Smart girl. Well, relatively. She couldn't be too smart if she took those bruises without complaining."*record screech*What the...did the main character just essentially say that a rape victim (Tegan) is stupid because she was violently raped and assaulted repeatedly by a gang? This felt like it came out of left field here. Although Deuce hadn't been particularly kind in her thoughts about "breeders" (people in the Enclave who were deemed attractive enough to have children, or "brats" - those who were not designated "breeders" were not allowed to have children or even sex), she'd never been overtly misogynistic. To all of the sudden start calling a character stupid because she "allowed" herself to be raped and beaten seemed...odd.Okay, I thought to myself, maybe she just doesn't understand how bad it is out in this world yet. Maybe I should give Deuce the benefit of the doubt, because until this point, she was an okay character - nothing particularly unique, but decent. Maybe it's just a poorly structured sentence?So I kept reading, because, well, I really did want to give the book another chance. And so I went on, almost fifty more pages, before the second nugget of joy appeared, this time on page 198.Fade and Deuce, along with Tegan, manage to escape from the gang (WITH TEGAN'S HELP, I MIGHT ADD), but they're being tracked by the gang. The gang finally finds them holed up in a building and attacks them. Tegan isn't trained in fighting, so essentially it is Fade and Deuce against four "Wolves" (what the gang members call themselves), including Stalker, the leader of the gang. Fortunately for Fade and Deuce, a horde of Freaks (zombie-like creatures) find them. In the ensuing battle, the badly outnumbered Fade, Deuce, and Wolves team up to fight off the Freaks. Fade and Deuce survive, but only Stalker, the leader of the gang, manages to stay alive. Stalker now wants to join Fade and Deuce (and Tegan, who also survived) on their trek north. Tegan, for obvious reasons, isn't thrilled with that idea and threatens to kill Stalker in his sleep (presumably for raping her or allowing his gang to rape her - Stalker only rapes certain girls, as we're told earlier in the book - but he is at LEAST guilty of kidnapping Tegan and forbidding her to leave, as well as sanctioning her rapes and abuse). Deuce, however, seems to think differently of him: "He [Stalker, the gang leader] embodied the Hunter tenet: "The strong survive." Part of me hated him for what he'd let the other Wolves do to Tegan, but the Huntress half of me wondered why she hadn't fought until she died."Oh.So now we're going down THAT road, are we? The well-traveled one that says that rape victims secretly wanted it because they didn't just fight hard enough? Or is it its cousin, the also well-worn road that says that rape victims deserve to be raped because they didn't fight enough, or discourage him enough, or say no loud enough or often enough, or didn't wear the right clothes, or didn't do the right things, or didn't control their alcohol intake, or hung out with the wrong crowd, etc, etc, etc? Because either way, FUCK YOU NO. I resolved to finish the chapter and then DNF the book. But there was one last nugget of joy to be had, just two pages from the one above, on page 200. In spite of Stalker having just wanted to kill all of them and having been a RAPIST LEADER OF A GANG FULL OF RAPISTS, Deuce (and presumably Fade) decides that they're going to let Stalker accompany them up north, even though Tegan is obviously very upset with their choice AND they have absolutely no reason to believe that Stalker is REMOTELY trustworthy. Tegan contradicts something that Stalker says (which would lend credence, besides the fact that he is a REMORSELESS RAPIST MURDERER, that he's probably not the guy to admit unquestioningly into the group, and then this happens:Stalker shrugged, as though her [Tegan's] opinion didn't matter to him. I understood,, I thought. He could respect Fade and me because we'd fought. Because she hadn't, Tegan might never gain full value in his eyes.WHATTHEFUCKNow the rape and abuse victim has to strive to "gain full value" in her abuser's eyes? She has to try to earn his respect? What in the fuck is this shit?And that was when I closed the book, went into my (personal) library, pulled the other two books from the series off the shelf (because, like a fool, I listened to the great reviews - which I do NOT understand the book even having! - and purchased the other two books in the series without reading the first one - WHEN WILL I LEARN?!?!), and threw all three into the trash. I don't even want to give these away, because I frankly don't want to expose anyone else to this level of fuckery. I am so so so SO SO SO SO SO SO sick of this. I am so sick of authors showing how "strong" their female characters are by contrasting their "strength" with other female characters' "weaknesses." I am so sick of books having women looking down on other women in such a manner. I am so sick of books that feel like the female protagonist must show that she's not like "those other girls," that she's special and unique and not *insert female "weakness" here* like all the others. I am so sick of reading books where the female protagonist can never have a strong friendship (or, even better, more than one!) with another female character, where the female protagonist is either passively or actively sparring with all of the other female characters because she HAS to show just how different she is.I've read some of the comments from people who are trying to defend the INDEFENSIBLE attitude in this book, and none of them have any credence in my eyes. "Oh, women are treated bad in the apocalypse" is one of the most common ones I see. Yes, we often are in post-apocalyptic fiction, and in a real apocalypse, I imagine we would be too. Just look at how women are treated (much like Tegan was) in war-torn areas of the world. But my problem here isn't that Tegan was treated badly - the GLARING issue is Tegan's poor treatment in DEUCE'S (another woman's) hands (and mind). I would expect empathy, acknowledgement, or understanding here. Hell, I'd even like to see some damned respect for what Tegan had endured and having managed to survive. What I do not want to fucking see is showing how "strong" Deuce is (because she was trained in combat and, therefore, wasn't raped) because Tegan is so "weak" (Tegan, who spent most of her life hiding from gangs just like the Wolves, who nearly died giving birth to two stillborn children [products of her rape], who was never trained in combat and has no idea how to use weapons and therefore has virtually NO option to fight, who risked her own life helping Fade and Deuce escape!!). Fuck the us vs. them mentality that pops up so often in women's relationships in fiction (and, unfortunately, real life). And fuck anyone who wants to try to defend it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Newly named Deuce lives in an underground enclave known as College where the rules are strict to ensure survival. Her whole life has been spent training to be a Huntress, one who protects the enclave and fights the Freaks, diseased and cannibalistic creatures. Now that she's considered an adult, she sees more of the inner workings and it isn't what she expected. Everyone is expected to follow orders to the letter. Innovation or deviation are not allowed or appreciated. At first, she's distressed to be paired with wild card Fade because he doesn't really conform, but outside the enclave, he's shown himself to be an asset. They discover that the Freaks are getting smarter working together and formulating strategies. When they try to warn the leaders, they are brushed off and forced to make a dangerous trek to a neighboring enclave. Can Deuce and Fade get people to take them seriously? Will they even return alive?Enclave had been on my reading list for years and I finally decided to read it because I had collected the whole series over time. I was pleasantly surprised. This dystopia takes place in the future where these Freaks have overrun the world. Since Deuce only lives underground, she only knows College and what they tell her. She lives in what used to be the New York subway system and has been told her whole life that above ground is too dangerous to live there. No one in her society lives past 40 and their eldest member is 25. No one gets named until their 15th birthday. Children are called Girl or Boy and a number instead. The enclave has 3 essential roles: breeder, builder, and hunter. Rules and commands are to be followed without question or comment. If core rules are broken, the perpetrator is exiled. At first Deuce is enamored at having some authority, but quickly sees the flaws and inconsistencies in the rulers culminating in being exiled to save an innocent friend.The characters are compelling. Deuce struggles with her own identity, as teens do. She tries to exude a tough demeanor, but she hides the fear and uncertainty inside. She's clever and observant with a will to do what's right. Fade is an oddball for above ground that never really fit in. He and Deuce come to depend on each other and build their trust outside of the enclave as they fight Freaks and other enemies. Stalker is an interesting but offputting character. He led a gang called the Wolves who hunted people for sport and raped women to keep their numbers up. He sees a losing fight against the smarter Freaks and joins Fade Deuce's group. They begrudgingly accept him because of his skill in fighting and his vow to change his ways. This could be a hard pill to swallow for some readers because of his heinous actions, but I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often in post-apocalyptic stories. Both parties are being practical and weighing the risk against the reward.The zombies called Freaks are a mutated variety that used to be completely mindless and driven by their hunger for flesh. They look like people, but have lesions all over their skin, large claws, and sharp teeth. They hunt in backs and their stench of carrion usually announces their presence. This new variety of Freak seems to have more ability to strategize and work with other Freaks for a greater goal, making them far more dangerous for the remnants of civilization. These zombies don't make other Freaks out of people it seems, but it begs the question how they haven't died out yet. Perhaps this will be revealed in further books.Enclave is a fun zombie novel that has an interesting vision of a dystopic future that I haven't seen before. There were some things that weren't well thought out. For example, health doesn't seem to compromised by a poor diet in the enclave and how the stores above ground still had a lot of usuable supplies in them. These things and others like them didn't bother while I was reading, but seemed suspicious afterwards. Overall, I enjoyed Enclave and I plan to read the rest of the series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not bad. It was enjoyable enough to finish, but it did leave me wanting more explanation in some areas ( maybe in later books?). I felt it was a rather abrupt ending too. It almost felt as if the author was trying to do too much- to use the successful aspects of other dystopian books in this one. It may have been too much. I will eventually read #2 to see if my questions are answered.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Engaging characters and interesting story, however brief.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was such a good book. It kept me interested and entertained throughout. I loved the fact that this story intertwines the dystopian genre with a zombie book. That was a new twist I was not expecting and I was pleasantly surprised. I really liked the main two characters and enjoyed seeing the way their relationship to each other changed over the course of the book and I have to say that I'm very eager to get my hands on the 2nd book and see where it will take them next. At the beginning I was very frustrated to not know what city this story was supposed to take place in, and if that would bother you too, rest easy as it will be told eventually! Basically, if you like dystopia or you like zombie novels you will enjoy this book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    All her life Deuce has lived underground in an enclave called College. She was born during the second holocaust and has never seen the surface. People in the enclave don't live past the age of twenty-five. They are split into three categories, Breeders, Builders & Hunters. Deuce is a huntress. Along with her partner, Fade, she patrols the tunnels and checks the traps for food. When they are assigned to travel to a nearby enclave to check if they are ok, they find something they didn't bargain for. The Freaks (zombies) have always been a threat, but now they are becoming smarter, more organized. But no one at College believes them, especially the leaders.

    This is a great story, twists and turns and edge of your seat moments. I liked Deuce. She is naive in that she never questions what the leaders tell her, but how could she know better? Her partnership with Fade is great. He is the perfect mysterious stranger in a place so contained that they all know each other. He was found wandering in the tunnels. Somehow he managed to survive alone and nobody knows how. He is quiet and keeps to himself. When Deuce is paired with Fade, her life begins to take a new direction. It's obvious from the tension between them, that somehow they will end up in a relationship and the inevitable love triangle.

    I'm reading the second book now and loving it. Really looking forward to the third!!

    Recommended to:
    Fans of young adult fiction, dystopia, zombie and apocalypse stories. Another great young adult series. Read this!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It's a dystopian fiction written with a creative flare. I could not put it down, Ms. Aguirre had me wrapped around her fingers. The world she created was fascinating and very believable. I give it 4.5 stars. It's gritty, dark and has a touch of romance. It ends with a cliffhanger that has me anxiously waiting for the next book in the series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Enclave is Book One of the Razorland series. The story is told by Deuce, a girl who survived in subterranean tunnels with her clan in an apocalyptic world. A contagious disease befell the world, allowing the rich evacuation and there rest to endure. Deuce's enclave, College, persevered primitively, with no one older than twenty-two years. Anyone approaching that age prepared to die prematurely or while fighting mutated beings called Freaks. I took pages of notes concerning this book. From issues like the development of College, to its illiterate occupants. From hunting for meat that didn't come from rats in a NYC-like subway system to coming Topside and not needing a transitional period and eyewear, other than sunglasses, after living underground for at least thirteen years! I was totally unable to envision what the author intended I see when it came to hunting meat. They lived and hunted within the tunnel system, so the only critters I can imagine they caught were rats, but Aguirre described their trapping and hunting as if they were in the woods or forrest or something! What the heck were they bagging every day? But what seriously damaged Enclave the most was the love triangle, where Deuce fell for both her hunting partner, Fade and her Topside captor, Stalker. Stalker is the leader of the Wolves, a gang. Stalker and his minions actually capture females for forceful breeding (yes, procreation) and recreational hunting of males before feasting on their flesh. THEN Deuce falls for the guy, claiming she admires him for his strength and fighting skills! I was blown away! I'm not big on Munchausen Syndrome for minors- sorry, big no-no for me. Deuce became unlikable after that, showing no growth, other than learning to read. I sure hope book 2: Outpost is better and Deuce matures, because right now, I don't like the girl. Have an awesome day and an even better book!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An interesting take on the post-apocalyptic/dystopia genre. It's nothing ground-breaking, but neither is it a penny-a-page hack attempt at cashing in on the hype surrounding these two genres. I enjoyed the growth and progression of the protagonist, Deuce, even though her male-counterpart (Fade) perfectly fit the tall, dark, handsome, brooding stranger trope(s). The addition of Stalker was nice, until the decision to kill him came up negative and his transgressions were quickly forgotten (here we have a violent gang-leader who regularly rapes women and hunts and kills men for sport...why the hell would you ever trust him/let him live?). His character development was far from realistic and, in retrospect, pisses me off. He switches from enemy to ally more quickly than one can flip a light-switch. Even Tegan ends up not caring so much about his past, even though she had been forced into pregnancy twice by him (both children were lost).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I enjoyed the story, but the unusual names were a little hard to get used to.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Enclave is a book about a boy and a girl who live in an underground town.The girl is named Deuce and has been living there since she was born. The boy's name is Fade and he only recently found his way to the town from wandering around in the vast underground tunnel systems. Both Fade and Deuce have taken the role of a hunter to get food for the town and kill freaks. Freaks are zombie like creatures who are believed to be very stupid creatures who eat any meat they can get. Deuce and Fade are assigned to be hunting partners and are sent on a journey to a near village as a punishment. When they get there they find that the whole town has been overrun by freaks. They quickly make the three day trip back to their own town. There they try to warn the people that the freaks are getting stronger and smarter. The towns people just laugh at Deuce and Fade and banish them from the town. Fade then tells Deuce that hes actually from the topside, so the two of them go to the topside of the earth were everything is in ruins. (Cliff Hanger for next book)I loved this book because I love books that are dystopian. I also love that there was lots of action and a little mystery. I also like the fact that there is a lot of survival involved. This book has been my favorite book so far this year. I cannot wait for the next two books in the trilogy and will be reading them soon.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was an amazing read(I'm already devouring the next book in the series.) I just loved the fact that Ann Aguirre mixed the 2 people most likely to never get along with each other. Fade was such a mysteries person that he never quite fit in even when people like Banner started to appreciate the way that he thinks. He never shows pain even though many of his new friends die he doesn't complain about it, just keeps going like nothing ever happened. And Deuce is the exact opposite. Deuce hates the fact that as a Hunter she must never show weakness or the slightest bit of softness, but as a Huntress she must always show that she has the upper hand. She just can't not follow the rules, its in her blood. But when she is partnered with Fade Deuce believes that Silk is trying to ruin her life. As the story continues to move along Deuce realizes that everything that she has been taught was all wrong. Join Deuce and her friends as they venture out into the real world. The world where everything can go wrong and if it can go wrong it will. Hunt...if you want to survive.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I didn't love this book as much as I expected to. Most of the time I was pretty bored and started to skim read again. :/
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great futuristic story of what life would be like if everyone disappeared from the Earth and moved Underground. Such life has always been the case with Deuce until she is banished from her underground enclave and forced to live Topside with Fade - who insists there is life Topside. What she sees and learns about Topside is more surprising, with more adventures, than she has ever had in her life.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In Deuce's world, people only live until their early 20s and earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. Decimated by war and plague, New York City's population now lives underground. 15-year-old Deuce has just become a Huntress, and is paired with fellow Hunter Fade who once lived Topside. Their neighbouring enclave is decimated by Freaks (zombies) and soon after Deuce and Fade are exiled. Fade must use his long-ago memories of Topside to navigate their way out of the city ruins, past the dangerous gangs, and north to where his father promised was another life. Welcome to a dark and savage world...
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Gahhhhhhh I had to return this book. It was an interesting idea, and I liked a couple of the characters, but my heck, what are editors being paid to do these days? I only read through about 18%, and I noticed at least 3 different points that were repeated almost verbatim. Um...we understand. We've got it. It's not important enough that we need that much emphasis, especially this early on.

    The character development was poor and the relationships were forced. The author just simply wasn't willing to give her readers enough credit, and overexplained WAY too much. So irritating.