Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Publication Date: February 7, 2012
Publisher: Harper
Interest: debut author; dystopian
Source: Baker & Taylor ARC program

Aria is expelled from The Pod, the only home she has ever known, into the outside world where terrible electrical storms are ravenging the landscape. She has no real-life experience with jut about anything; the Pod dwellers experience everything virtually. In the outside world she has to fend for herself until she strikes up a bargain with Peregrine, an Outsider. Peregrine will take Aria to the Pod where her mother has been working and in return Aria will get Peregrine access to the virtual link of her people so that he can track down his kidnapped nephew.

I was a little hesitant to read this. I've been pretty burned out on dystopians but there has been so much hyp about this that I thought I should read it. I'm glad I did. The world building was interesting and the characters were realistic. And I appreciated that the ineveitable sexual tension that arose between Aria and Peregrine was not overbearing. There was a good twist at the end that I didn't see coming (but I'm pretty oblivious to that sort of thing, someone else may have seen in coming a mile away). It's obvious that there will be another book after this one.



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