Deftly told, this tale of human resilience in the face of madness is a horror classic for our times (Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. The tension diffuses toward the end, but the majority of the book is a stellar and surprising ride. Reeled out with the chilling calmness of a Hitchcock film, Above haunts as it illuminates. In a series of gripping twists, Morley elevates the complexities of Blythe and Adam’s situation, deepening the themes of survival and dependence. Time passes without losing momentum, and soon Adam turns 15, questioning Dobbs’s authority and demanding to go into the world they call Above. At first Blythe dreams of escape and resists Dobbs, but as the years pass, she weakens, and when she bears a son, Adam, and Dobbs becomes increasingly unpredictable, she resigns herself to life in captivity. If the premise and some of the concepts initially owe too great a debt to Emma Donoghue’s Room, the specifics of life underground and Blythe’s coping mechanisms-in particular, her touching habit of using memories to teach herself, as she gets older in captivity, how to be an adult-quickly set it apart. Blythe Hollowell is only 16 when she’s kidnapped and taken to live in an abandoned missile silo by Dobbs, a local conspiracy theorist, who has chosen her to help him repopulate the world after end times.
Morley is a stunning storyteller.Morley (Come Sunday) scores with an audacious page-turner. This is a novel that challenges you to believe.
The isolation and darkness wrap you like wild vines and force you to face the nightmare, but Above plunges you forward and drives toward hope, because sometimes that's all that remains. Above, March 2014 by Isla Morley Gallery Books Featuring: Blythe Hallowell 384 pages ISBN: 1476731527 EAN: 9781476731520 Kindle: B00DPM7UVM Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List. Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Deftly told, this tale of human resilience in the face of madness is a horror classic for our times.
Reeled out with the chilling calmness of a Hitchcock film, Above haunts as it illuminates. In a series of gripping twists, Morley elevates the complexities of Blythe and Adam's situation, deepening the themes of survival and dependence. Morley scores with an audacious page-turner. Morley crafts a menacingly sinister tale of imprisonment and eerily inventive story of survival that will appeal to fans of riveting psychological suspense and cut-throat dystopian fiction.
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