Hail all science-fiction enthusiasts! If you have watched George Lucas 's "Star Wars", seen Arnold Schwarzenegger star in "Terminator" or played the video game "Halo", you will definitely like this book.
In this magnificent new science-fiction novel, Emma Clayton concocts a story about the future, where everything is high-tech. In this future, there is said to be an animal plague, and humans are squeezed into England, behind a huge wall which was built to protect the poeple from the plague animals. Within the densely-populated area, it is divided into three parts: the Golden Turrets (the apartments where the ministers stay), the houses in the slums (for ordinary people), and finally the Shadows, where the extremely poor dwell. The ordinary and the poor could only afford Fab food, which was made up of mould and colouring. Only the people staying in the Golden Turrets could afford real food.
The story revolves around Mika, a twelve-year-old boy living in the "ordinary people zone". He had always been upset after his sister, Ellie, had supposedly gone missing and assumed dead. Mika did not believe that his sister was dead as he had dreams and feelings which told him that she was not dead. That was why he resolved to find her one day.
Through an perilous adventure and a desperate search for Ellie leads Mika to the truth - everything the people living behind the Wall had told was all lies.
After reading this book, I can see that one of the themes in this book is poverty. Mika's family and the other normal or poor people living in the slums or Shadows eating fake food is a sign of poverty. We should not take what we have now (living outside slums, eating real food instead of mould etc.) for granted as a similar situation like that in the novel might happen to us in the near future.
Well, I cannot tell you any more. If you want to satisfy your curiosity, do go to a bookstore or library to read this amazing book!
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