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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Inside Out\Outside In by Maria V. Snyder
This is a Harlequin Teen paperback, but looked intriguing. The premise is interesting - the setting is a completely enclosed cube of four levels, self-sustaining, with most people, 'scrubs', working at boring jobs to maintain 'Inside', while the 'uppers' served as managers and had more space for living quarters. The main character, Trella, a teen loner, is Queen of the Pipes, or super at her job of following a robot vacuum as it cleans the inside of air ducts. She's spunky, but has few friends. However, she quickly gets involved in helping an outcast foment a small rebellion. Trella ends up as reluctant leader of the rebellion. Of course Inside turns out to be space ship. This is actually two books combined into one - Inside Out/Outside In - to explain more would give away the plot. The plot constructs and quirks are more interesting than the characters; many of them are rather wooden. The story is rather slow in places. 608 pages.
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