How would you feel if at the age of 15 you discover that
everything you have been led to believe is a lie?
Fifteen-year-old Aubrey VanHouten has only known life with
his father in Level 3 of the Holocene II. Holocene II is a society built
underground in what is presently North America nine hundred years in the
future.
All fifteen year olds in Holocene II take a test to
determine where they will work and live as they mature to adults. The highest
level is Level 1 and the lowest is Level 6. The miners reside in Level 6. No
one from Level 3 has ever been to Level 1. Retirement occurs in this society at
age 35 when you are transported to Eden.
The eight-hour long computer-generated test ends abruptly
for Aubrey when he makes a random guess on the question regarding what should
be done if plague strikes. Aubrey’s computer screen shuts down and the message,
“You will report to Level 1” is revealed. Everyone in Level 3 celebrates
Audrey’s good fortune!
Parting from the only home he has known underground is
bittersweet for Aubrey and his father. But since Aubrey’s dad is soon turning
35 and destined to go to Eden anyway, they are accepting of this fate.
When the magnetically powered train taking Aubrey to Level 1
crashes due to an avalanche of rock debris, Aubrey realizes that the mountain
scenes he has been seeing outside the train’s window are not a virtually
created movie. Instead, they are the surface of the earth! Everyone residing in
Holocene II has been told that an ice sheet covers the surface.
Aubrey is filled with questions: What in the world happened?
Why have we been lied to? Who lives up here? How will I survive?
I loved the first book in The Park Service trilogy! Fans of The Hunger Games and the Divergent
series will be able to escape to another dystopian world!
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