It took a day (or, well, an afternoon and into the evening – I have kids I have to pay attention to!) to read from cover to cover, but I did just that – read it from start to finish in as close to one go as I could make it. I read this on my Nook and I have a tendency to read at lightning speed on that thing. I don’t recall where I heard about it, so all I can say is – I bought it, I read it, and…. Maybe the image of the cover on Barnes & Noble caught my eye, maybe the price was right – who knows. Ah well, here goes! I honestly don’t know why I picked up this book.

My Thoughts: It’s been so long since I actively read for review purposes that I think I’ve forgotten how to do this. what world lies beyond the walls of their cage? Can Cora manage to save herself and her companions? And if so. And they have taken the five teenagers for an otherworldly zoo-where the exhibits are humans.Īs a forbidden attraction develops between Cora and Cassian, she realizes that her best chance of escape might be in the arms of her own jailer-though that would mean leaving the others behind. But when their mysterious jailer-a handsome young guard called Cassian-appears, they realize that their captivity is more terrifying than they could ever imagine: Their captors aren’t from Earth. As the unlikely group struggles for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. None of them have a clue as to what happened, and all of them have secrets. And she isn’t alone.įour other teenagers have also been taken: a beautiful model, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora’s past. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments-tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures-all watched over by eerie black windows. Synopsis (From Goodreads): When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who put her there. Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction/Dystopia

The cage by megan shepherd