The Prey

I haven't finished this book, but so far it has been great so I feel the necessity of sharing and talking about this book. When I read The Hunger Games I feel in love with the dystopian genre books (Divergent, The Maze Runner, etc.)  Usually when I see a book and I read what it is about if it's a dystopian book, it's guaranteed I will read it. And this has been no exception. From the very beginning it's setting is a mysterious America which has suffered a great damage and nothing is like before. Not everything is described onto what happened or who are the characters we're reading about so you have to keep reading to find out. "Eyes land on a knife, its razor edge trimmed in red.

Blood, his blood.

Darkness closing in. The world reduced to a pinprick. Fatigue washes over him like a summer storm .

My final moments, he realizes. All come down to this." I didn't know who the narrator was talking about nor why he was bleeding, still I wanted to continue and solve this puzzle. Maybe this kind of things would make other people put the book down and leave it there but for me it worked, it grabbed me and until today it hasn't let me go.

The Prey by Tom Isbell sets a story twenty years after Omega (a day that left the whole country of the United States in ruins) where life is now lived inside of camps and people inside them don't know anything else of the world. We follow two narrators (Book and Hope), exchanging points of view between chapters, who will tell us how is life in there and what happened, we'll follow their path to discover that everything is not what they've been told.

I honestly don't have a favorite character here because I'm liking how everyone helps develop the story. A thing I do like is that the author is trying to make a point, by saying that if humanity had a second chance he'd repeat the same mistakes; he wouldn't change the way he discriminates and uses their equals for his own good. "Book: How do they decide who's a...Less Than?

Cat: Handicaps, obesity, skin color, politics, who knows. They don't announce the criteria, but it's pretty clear. I mean, look around.

Book: ... Sure, I had a brown skin, and Twitch and June Bug had black, Dozer had a withered arm, Red a splotch on his face, and Four Fingers, well, four fingers on each hand. But all that was just a coincidence. Right?" I've been like Book in certain circumstances because I've blindfolded too and didn't want to accept that things weren't right until something made realized otherwise.

Until now I've liked how the events are shown and how people are afraid of governments. I think the author may be trying to make a comparison with life now at days and makes me wonder: Would we succumb to this? Would we train our people to kill other just because we say they are Less Thans? And I already know the answer. I've only read 200 pages and this book has already shown me something. Now let's see how it ends.

Vocabulary:

Blister: a bubble on the skin caused by the friction or burning.

Sentence: Blisters on my palm erupted until the knife was slick with blood.

Trim: reduce the size of something.

Sentence: Eyes land on a knife, its razor edge trimmed in red.

Tug: a hard pull.

Sentence: I gave it a tug and the dripping increased.

Droplet: a small drop a liquid.

Sentence: Droplets, then a puddle, a pond, a lake.

Utterly: completely, absolutely.

Sentence: Utterly wiped out.

All in all, I'm liking this book and I think people should read it because it makes good questions as of what humanity is capable of. I really want to know how it ends and maybe I'll read the second book.