Ever since a young age, I have not been the most avid reader. Sure, I enjoy reading books on occasions. One literature that particularly stands out is the trilogy “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. Its fusion with fiction and reality, set in a dystopian society made it an interesting read for me. The suspense and action made the book fast-paced, and her take on a fictional-disrupted society made it very compelling. With my completion of the trilogy, it was the first piece of writing that truly seemed spoke to me. I felt as if I were the leading character, and as if his adversaries and triumphs were my own. Since then, my criteria on whether I liked a particular booked has been based on whether or not it could stimulate my senses. With such a system …show more content…
Until I had stumbled upon “The Compound”, which once again had reignited the flame of my interest in books.
It was in one of my library visits, as I was surfing through the books, when I had come across “The Compound”. I picked it up, drawn to it by its bright title cover. The bright vivid letters in the title, clashed appealingly, with the eery ash black grill in the background(which made it pop out from the rest of the novels). Interested by the cover, I decided to pick it up and took a look at the teaser, curious about its contents, and went straight to the book itself. Through S. A. Bodeen’s “The Compound”, she creates a barren, bomb devastated setting of America. In which a young 9 year old boy-Eli, his siblings and his multi-billionaire parents are left to fend for themselves in a facility under a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Which in my opinion seemed quite suiting and typical for such a book, but with a little more knowledge, a twist was revealed. The idea of of this inhabitable America was all an illusion, set up by their insane dad, who has now held his family captive for a total of six years. Food resources are depleting, forcing them to lean towards cannibalism of their own children. And unfortunately,