Welcome to the last day of the Sunscorched Blog Tour. If you've missed a good environmental dystopia as much as I, then you should add this little harsh and darkly book to your wishlist. Jen Crane has such an unique and interesting concept as well as a Mad Max-esque world that I could not help but fall in love with. Scroll down to read my review and don't forget to join the Giveaway (it's US only, sorry guys).
Title: Sunscorched
Author: Jen Crane
Published: October 23rd 2018
Publisher: Carpe Noctem Publishing, LLC
Genre: YA Dystopian
Publisher: Carpe Noctem Publishing, LLC
Genre: YA Dystopian
Death in daylight. Danger at dark.
Life can't possibly get more treacherous than a violent sun allergy in a solar-blighted world. At least that's what seventeen-year-old Nori Chisholm thought before news of an impending sunscorch delivered her death sentence.
Desperate to survive the scorch, she's forced to shelter underground and discovers a secret subterranean world where life is hard, and so are the people. Betrayed and left for dead by the man who pledged to help her, Nori is sold to a gritty pit fighting ring. There she makes a friend--and plenty of enemies.
Speeding by motorcycle through the underground world, Nori makes a shocking discovery that shatters everything she thought she knew. Can she use the knowledge to save what's left of the world?
Winner of the Rosemary Award for excellence in young adult fiction, Sunscorched is a tale of survival and self-discovery at breakneck speed. Fans of Bella Forrest and Marie Lu, who crave dangerous heroes and dark secrets, will love the Sunscorched world.
Life can't possibly get more treacherous than a violent sun allergy in a solar-blighted world. At least that's what seventeen-year-old Nori Chisholm thought before news of an impending sunscorch delivered her death sentence.
Desperate to survive the scorch, she's forced to shelter underground and discovers a secret subterranean world where life is hard, and so are the people. Betrayed and left for dead by the man who pledged to help her, Nori is sold to a gritty pit fighting ring. There she makes a friend--and plenty of enemies.
Speeding by motorcycle through the underground world, Nori makes a shocking discovery that shatters everything she thought she knew. Can she use the knowledge to save what's left of the world?
Winner of the Rosemary Award for excellence in young adult fiction, Sunscorched is a tale of survival and self-discovery at breakneck speed. Fans of Bella Forrest and Marie Lu, who crave dangerous heroes and dark secrets, will love the Sunscorched world.
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Review
Sunscorched is a tale of survival in a menacing world in which Nori must learnt to navigate while figuring out her place in the world and facing dark secrets that will shatter the world she has always known.
Pros
The Underground. I love this Mad Max-esque world. Dirty and dangerous towns, fighting pits and motorcycles that travel through claustrophobic tunnels. Vicious and deadly people live in these tunnels and underground towns - it's a world in which the strongest survives.
However, there are also beautiful places in this dark and violent world, such as an hidden lake and open pond in where one could gaze the stars. I should also mention the above world. After an environmental catastrophe named sunscorch burnt everything, the world became a wasteland: a desert with high temperatures with only a few nightly hours. It's an interesting concept that makes wonder how the world will turn up if one isn't careful.
However, there are also beautiful places in this dark and violent world, such as an hidden lake and open pond in where one could gaze the stars. I should also mention the above world. After an environmental catastrophe named sunscorch burnt everything, the world became a wasteland: a desert with high temperatures with only a few nightly hours. It's an interesting concept that makes wonder how the world will turn up if one isn't careful.
Nori. There's so much character growing! After the first sunscorch killed her brothers, Nori is raised in a bell jar - she became deadly allergic to the sun (it burns and scars her skin), but she won night vision. I'm hoping to learn a lot more about her strange condition in the following book. Her parents love her (I quite enjoyed the chapter's in her father's POV) and even though they don't want to lose her, they sent her to an underground world, which they knew nothing about, in order to save her life. Even though Nori starts her journey as a naive young girl, she soon shows her sassiness and strength and that she won't back down to no one. She will not be pushed around and will do everything in her power to get back to her family. Even if it means putting herself in harm's way.
Kade. He's such a cute friendly giant in dire need of a big hug.
Cons
The timeline. Twelve years before the novel's beginning, a sunscorch destroyed life on earth (plants, animals and most human population died after the world burnt down). Which makes a little surprising when you discover an underground city, which could never have been built in twelve years, whose inhabitants have never seen the sun and don't believe the surface is suitable for living. Later, it's revealed the why, but I wish the timeline had been explained earlier in the story. Just a quick explanation with no spoilers because the lack of it made the timeline a little bit difficult to understand.
Thank you to YA Bound Book Tours and the publisher for providing me with a review copy in exchange of an honest review.
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Sorry the timeline wasn't better explained so you were left questioning how a city could have been built underground in such a short period of time. But you did seem to enjoy the other aspects of the book, I like the sound of the Mad Max style world and the characters sound fantastic. It sounds like a really intriguing book and I think I'm gonna have to give it a shot.
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