But Tucker’s idyllic life is suddenly, horrifically altered when a series of seemingly unrelated deaths rock the island. Freshman Tucker Pierce and his parents relocated here about 5 years ago after his dad lost his job as a civil engineer and Tucker has found the slow pace of small-town life suits him just fine. It’s a quiet life where everyone knows everyone else and people leave their doors unlocked at night. SYLO begins a new trilogy on a quiet island community off the coast of Maine filled with summer vacationers and a small population of locals who inhabit the island all year round. MacHale’s heart-pounding, thrill-ride SYLO confused, frustrated, and without a shred of truth to cling to. Both the reader and Tucker reach page 407 of D.J. Who are SYLO? What is The Ruby? What are those strange flying ships? Why is Pemberwick Island under quarantine? Who are all the people suddenly on the island? What do Tucker’s parents know that they aren’t telling him? What happened on the mainland? Is there anyone Tucker can trust? Every single time you think you’ve figured something out, another mystery appears, confounding, frustrating, and driving you on in the vain hope that you can have at least one answer before the end. You can actually see the point in my reading progress where I stop updating because I can’t put the book down.At the end of the book, that’s what I’m left with. My eyes did that thing where they’re looking at a sentence but end up drifting down without you realising it because you want to read faster but your brain isn’t catching up. The last quarter of the book was a vast improvement, and lived up to James Dashner’s claim that the story is “relentlessly fast-paced … (and) leaves you breathless and satisfied.” My stomach was in knots because I was so hooked. It was distracting reading her switch from being manipulative, to genuinely sweet and caring, to terrified as hell, to confident - usually within the span of a page.ĭespite all those negatives, I’m glad I stuck with it. Tucker obviously has a lot of respect for them but (view spoiler). As for Olivia, I felt that she was all over the place in the second half of the book. With the first two, I wished I could’ve learned more about them. While Tucker felt very fleshed out, I found that I had a lot of question marks in my head for his mum, dad, and Olivia. My other gripe with the book was with the supporting characters. In fact, it took me four days to plough through the first half, as opposed to the one afternoon sitting I spent on the last half. The place was much too slow for my liking and it only started to pick up half-way through the book. Not cool.Īs I kept reading, there were many times where I wanted to give up. It sounds like the kind of place I’d want to go on vacation to, minus the military invasion. The first few chapters were great at setting the tone of the story and painting a picture of the idyllic island that is Pemberwick. I haven’t read any of MacHale’s books so I went in with no expectations. The premise also sounded interesting so I decided to give it a shot. I picked up this book from one of the many shelves at my local library because the spine caught my eye and the cover looked sweet (don’t lie to me - you know you judge them too).
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