The Sky Inside, Clare B. Dunkle
The Sky Inside, Clare B. Dunkle
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The Sky Inside

Author: Clare B. Dunkle

Narrator: Bruce Turk

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2008


Synopsis

Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year, a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they’ve stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever matter of national importance the president has on the table. Today, it is the color of his drapes. It’s business as usual under the protective dome of suburb HM1.

And it’s all about to come crashing down. Because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martin’s sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where she has gone. The way Martin sees it, he has a choice. He can remain in the dubious safety of HM1, with danger that no one wants to talk about lurking just beneath the surface, or he can actually break out of the suburb, into the mysterious land outside, rumored to be nothing but blowing sand for miles upon miles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxanne

Things that are flawless about this book: the cover. And I don't mean that as a jab, the cover is just very awesome. The story? eh. It had some neat ideas - actually, it had too many neat ideas jammed all together so that none of them were very successfully explored, at least to the lengths I would......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Martin lives in HM1, a seemingly perfect world. But when a stranger comes to town to take away the latest shipment of children, the new Wonder Babies, Martin wonders why no one is asking any questions and why no one call tell him where they've taken his little sister, Cassie, a Wonder Baby. So he se......more

Goodreads review by Carlos

I was actually impressed with this one book , at the begginning it felt more of likea juvenile book but as I kept listening to it the themes changed and it became more complex. I liked the world that the author created and the compexity behind it . At some points it gelt more like it was a cautonary......more

Goodreads review by Carissa

i'm only giving this two stars because it has some interesting plot points. really, it was more like a one-star book. this book takes on way more than it can handle in the number of pages it contains. it's supposedly a futuristic "what-if" sort of tale, but it goes in so many different directions th......more