When sixteen-year-old Sadie takes the fall for an attack by a rebel group, The Alchemists, she suddenly finds herself wrenched away from her quiet life and from her ailing father.
Armed with little help and even less knowledge, Sadie is thrust into a cold and cryptic ‘correctional facility’ – The Tower. Here she’ll have to rethink everything she’s been told about the Undying population in an attempt to save the life she knows, protect a group of unlikely friends, and give voice to the voiceless in a society on the brink of catastrophic upheaval.
The first in a daring dystopian trilogy, The Undying Tower descends into the dark side of immortality and champions fighting for what’s right, especially when the world is against you.
I wish I had more to say about this book. There's a good story here, but I felt that the world building wasn't there to support it. The background wasn't given to us in a way that I could make sense of, though I'm sure others did better than I did in that matter.
Sadie is an interesting character and she goes through a lot during the novel. It did feel like her fellow inmates trusted and made friends with her too quickly, but maybe they knew something was going on. I thought the synesthesia angle was really interesting - I've never seen it used before - but it seemed like Sadie had all the forms of it at once, and then at the climax when it might have been useful it just vanishes! That didn't make much sense to me, but maybe it'll be explained in the next book.
And I will definitely be reading the next one. Despite my (small!) problems, all of which I believe can be explained, I enjoyed the read and I'm excited to see what will happen next with Sadie and her friends.
The Undying Tower publishes on the 7th of October, 2021. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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