A review by moirwyn
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
4.0
This review originally appeared on my blog, Books Without Any Pictures:
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2015/10/05/mini-reviews-ya-edition/
My friends have been telling me to read Ann Aguire’s Razorland trilogy for what seems like ages now, and when I was at the beach this summer, I finally got around to digging into it. Enclave, the first book, is set after a calamity similar to a zombie apocalypse. After the catastrophe, small groups of people banded together to survive in an increasingly harsh world, finding ways to fend off the Freaks and to hunt enough food to get by. Deuce is a teenager coming of age in one of the enclaves of survivors who dwell in old subway tunnels. As she takes her place as a Hunter within the enclave, she and a colleague named Fade witness events that lead her to believe that the Freaks are getting smarter and are no longer acting in predictable ways. The enclave’s leaders don’t believe them, and so Deuce and Fade are cast out, where they venture onto the surface, which has plenty of dangers of its own.
Enclave makes for good beach reading. It’s fun and trashy in all the right ways, but is the kind of book you shouldn’t try to think too hard about. If you do, you’ll probably drive yourself crazy thinking of questions such as, “Why are there only three jobs in an Enclave? How do people survive?”
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2015/10/05/mini-reviews-ya-edition/
My friends have been telling me to read Ann Aguire’s Razorland trilogy for what seems like ages now, and when I was at the beach this summer, I finally got around to digging into it. Enclave, the first book, is set after a calamity similar to a zombie apocalypse. After the catastrophe, small groups of people banded together to survive in an increasingly harsh world, finding ways to fend off the Freaks and to hunt enough food to get by. Deuce is a teenager coming of age in one of the enclaves of survivors who dwell in old subway tunnels. As she takes her place as a Hunter within the enclave, she and a colleague named Fade witness events that lead her to believe that the Freaks are getting smarter and are no longer acting in predictable ways. The enclave’s leaders don’t believe them, and so Deuce and Fade are cast out, where they venture onto the surface, which has plenty of dangers of its own.
Enclave makes for good beach reading. It’s fun and trashy in all the right ways, but is the kind of book you shouldn’t try to think too hard about. If you do, you’ll probably drive yourself crazy thinking of questions such as, “Why are there only three jobs in an Enclave? How do people survive?”