This book starts in an unknown time period where the world our characters are living in has frozen over all survivors are now living in a tower like structure with an elevator leading to different levels, the top most layers have the most resources and the highest chance of survival, bottom layers get limited resources including coveted sunlight which produces power for the level.
Sol lives in layer 5 this is now the bottom most layer as all layers below have become too cold to inhabit and/or the top most layers have "Discontinued" the layers to protect the upper most layers. Sol Gathers sunlight in his Suncatcher to bring back to his level only recently the higher levels have not been approving the gathering... in fact there are concerns that level 5 might be discontinued soon... will the population of this level be relocated to remain safe?
Sol and his team from level 5 often go on missions to scavenge resources from lower levels... and at times put themselves at greater risk trying to get to the top of the tower... with patrols out frequently trying to cut them off from all supplies, time and hope are dwindling at level 5.
One of the missions leads to a possible new source of power... but learning to control this could turn into a problem. Clare (Sol's girlfriend) finds that this new power has given her new abilities... she doesn't understand them fully and is not sure if she will be able to control her new found power... this could be a blessing but it could also create more chaos.
With time running out, friends turning into enemies, and losing even more precious resources maybe the answer isn't going up towards the sun... but going down towards the unknown.
*Indie Author *Dystopian World *multiple POV *Ruined world *Scarcity of Resources
*high tech gadgets *Found family *heirarchy in the tower *light romance *2026
Thoughts:
This is another time where I'm branching out from my usual romance reads, I found this book from an indie author post and the plot sounded interesting Dystopian world coming to the end of resources and in need of some changes in order to help with survival, if anyone liked the Movie or Show Snowpiercer you will like this book.
The book was action packed and sometimes harder to follow but I was rooting for all of the level five population to make it to the end even when the upper levels have left them on their own basically to just "make it" as long as they can and every day or any mission taken could be their last prior to missions the team members create what they call a "fiver" that they want printed in rememberance of them if they do not return.
The author does a great job with world building and I could see the landscapes of the levels as described as I was reading the book, I loved the found family feel and had anxiety right along with them that the higher levels were cutting them off and they were running out of time to save their level.
I enjoyed this read there were twists and it ended in a bit of a cliffhanger would be interested to see what happens next in this world. With dystopian reads there are plenty of hard times and heartache as tough decisions are made and life as they know it will never be the same.
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