![]() ![]() The world building is well paced – the descriptions of the pipes and sections is confusing but other than that it’s pretty clear – but because of the mystery in the first book about ‘what’s beyond the fence’, as it were, you can’t really understand the size and scale of the ship until the second book. ![]() This series takes so many twits and turns! In some sense you could probably just get away with reading the second book, Outside In, because Snyder does an incredible job summarising the plot of the first book in five pages, but where would be the fun in that? The Insiders Duology isn’t so much of a dystopian as it is sci-fi, as the end of the first book, Inside Out, reveals that the previously hard to visualise world of pipes and upper floors is actually a space ship and suddenly everything makes sense! Uppers and Lowers, like the upper and lower levels of a ship, why didn’t I think of that sooner? In a world were people are separated into Upper and Lowers, where the Lowers look after everyone by doing the jobs no one wants to do, we follow Trella, a scrub, who just might know how to get people to the elusive Outside where they can’t be controlled by an oppressive society run by the Controllers. It’ve been an avid reader of her Study series for a really long time, and her foray into dystopian sounded like exactly the kind of thing I would like. I’ve made it my goal this year to try and read all of Maria V. ![]()
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