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A review by hollowspine
Annex by Rich Larson
3.0
3.5
The book is about a boy who has just managed to escape an alien prison, where children like him are kept drugged and under surveillance by strange alien creatures. No one knows why they are being held prisoner, or what has happened to all the adults, who wander the streets, clamps on their heads turning them into wandering zombies. A strange fog envelops his city keeping everyone locked inside.
Bo meets Violet just as he escapes and she introduces him to a new family of sorts, the Lost Boys, a group of boys and girls who escaped the camps, led by the charismatic Wyatt. Bo wants to find his sister, taken from the camps before he escaped. Wyatt teaches Bo to use his power, a power all children have gotten after being implanted with alien parasites. Bo could be the most powerful of them all, but that means the aliens are very interested in capturing him. Violet has her own ideas of what she wants, which leads her to an awful choice, between the world as she wants it to be, and reality.
There are definitely scenes where the characters are put in terrible situations, and we often see into their pasts which include abuse, especially for Violet whose family hadn't accepted her trans identity. The characters are well written and the plot twists and action make it a fast paced read. Definitely not the typical plot driven science fiction, this one has social messages as well and ends with a twist that keeps readers wandering if the characters made the right choices, or if the story is over...
The book is about a boy who has just managed to escape an alien prison, where children like him are kept drugged and under surveillance by strange alien creatures. No one knows why they are being held prisoner, or what has happened to all the adults, who wander the streets, clamps on their heads turning them into wandering zombies. A strange fog envelops his city keeping everyone locked inside.
Bo meets Violet just as he escapes and she introduces him to a new family of sorts, the Lost Boys, a group of boys and girls who escaped the camps, led by the charismatic Wyatt. Bo wants to find his sister, taken from the camps before he escaped. Wyatt teaches Bo to use his power, a power all children have gotten after being implanted with alien parasites. Bo could be the most powerful of them all, but that means the aliens are very interested in capturing him. Violet has her own ideas of what she wants, which leads her to an awful choice, between the world as she wants it to be, and reality.
There are definitely scenes where the characters are put in terrible situations, and we often see into their pasts which include abuse, especially for Violet whose family hadn't accepted her trans identity. The characters are well written and the plot twists and action make it a fast paced read. Definitely not the typical plot driven science fiction, this one has social messages as well and ends with a twist that keeps readers wandering if the characters made the right choices, or if the story is over...