This was totally not what I expected from reading the synopsis, its better. This reminded me of Stephen Kings, The Dome but geared to the YA reader and not so deep. Sixteen-year old Neva has been living in Homeland for so long she does not remember what it was like before The Terror, before they were put under the Protectosphere. Is there life outside the Protectosphere? And why doesn’t anyone want to talk about life before this period? People are vanishing and no one seems to know where they are going, and Neva wants to get to the bottom of it. Neva and her friends plan a rebellion but just when things heat up, her friends start to get cold feet. Neva urges them on, finally seeing pieces that aren’t fitting together. Neva feels as though her life is all a lie and she wants answers but who can tell her the truth. People are scared, her friends don’t know the truth and the answers….well, they’re hidden. The Protectosphere is about heritage, it’s about control by the elite, it’s about damage control and it’s about secrets.Caught up in the fast faced action of Neva and her friends, I finished this book in one day. The romance that Neva had with Braydon added tension to the building tension in the book so that helped with the drama in the book. I was drawn to this book by a blog writer otherwise I would have picked up the book as the synopsis was not catchy and by the typeset on the back cover made it looked more like a techno book than what it really was. The book ended abruptly so you have to believe that there will be a second book in the future.
