his is the story of a young woman who agrees to take part in a new reality tv show called In The Dark.She and eleven other contestants will be pushed to their limits while they live deep in a forest and will have to overcome hunger,injury and all kinds of psychological mind games as well as living every minute of the day on camera.What she doesn't know is while they are taking part in the show the world outside is hit by a major event that kills hundreds of millions of people.As she struggles to survive what she thinks is her final solo challenge she struggles to understand what is real and what if anything is part of the game.
The story is told in alternating chapters between during the filming of the reality show and after when Zoo is trying to get home.I admit that I found Zoo`s chapters when she was on her own more interesting,there was more sense of danger and intrigue in those chapters.I found the descriptions of the challenges were too long and drawn out and was tempted a couple of times to skim read those chapters.The contestants are given names like Banker and cheerleader boy based on how their characters behave and these are the names that are used during the reality show chapters but during Zoo`s solo chapters she uses their real names when she is thinking about them which got a bit confusing.I did like Zoo,she was very brave and resourceful although sometimes you wanted to scream at her because of her stubbornness not to accept what was really going on.
This is Alexandria`s debut book,it is Very well written,thought provoking and has a intriguing twist at the end.I did enjoy reading it just some parts more than others.
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