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ABOVE

Above, March 2014
by Isla Morley

Gallery Books
Featuring: Blythe Hallowell
384 pages
ISBN: 1476731527
EAN: 9781476731520
Kindle: B00DPM7UVM
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"A riveting story of survival!"

Fresh Fiction Review

ABOVE
Isla Morley

Reviewed by Samantha Cudworth
Posted July 4, 2014

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ABOVE is a story about survival! Blythe Hallowell was just sixteen years old when she was abducted and imprisoned in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas. Her captor, Dobbs Hordin is her school librarian who believes that the world is ending and they will be the only survivors. For seventeen years Blythe is keep underground. Her memories of the world outside are slowly fading and hope of ever being found is dwindling. The only light in the tunnel is Adam. Adam is Blythe's teenage son who she would do anything to give the life that she never had. Can Blythe and Adam escape their captor? Will there still be a world to escape to?

I am going to try not to give any spoilers away with my review. ABOVE could have been split in two. The first half of the book deals with Blythe's imprisonment. It shows her downfall into madness and documents what her thoughts are while she is trapped. The second half is about the escape and the aftermath of the escape. I will say that Isla Morley did a perfect job of capturing my attention from the very beginning. There were a couple of times that it dragged but other than that ABOVE is a captivating read.

My emotions were all over the place throughout the book. There was a major plot twist when Blythe escapes that I did not see coming at all. Isla Morley does a perfect job of tying the two parts together at the end even if it did take a little while to get there. The only thing that I will complain about is I would have like to have more background on Dobbs. He was a madman but I would have like to know what made him tick. All in all ABOVE is a beautifully written novel that will captivate the reader and hold until the book is long over.

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SUMMARY

I am a secret no one is able to tell. Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abanΒ­doned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles inβ€”the crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give up. But nothing prepares Blythe for the burden of raising a child in confinement. DeterΒ­mined to give the boy everything she has lost, she pushes aside the truth about a world he may never see for a myth that just might give meanΒ­ing to their lives below ground. Years later, their lives are ambushed by an event at once promisΒ­ing and devastating. As Blythe’s dream of going home hangs in the balance, she faces the ultimate choiceβ€”between survival and freedom. Above is a riveting tale of resilience in which β€œstunning” (Daily Beast) new literary voice Isla Morley compels us to imagine what we would do if everything we had ever known was taken away. Like the bestselling authors of Room and The Lovely Bones before her, Morley explores the unthinkable with haunting detail and tenderly depicts our boundless capacity for hope.

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