Perfect Ruin (The Internment Chronicles #1) by Lauren DeStefano
Published by: Simon and Schuster for Young Readers
Genre: YA dystopia, romance, sci-fi/fantasy
As a reader of the Chemical Garden trilogy I immediately thought this book would be alike in theme and style. Don't get me wrong it is but for some reason I didn't feel as if this as good.
The book follows the life of Morgan Stockhour whose father is a policeman, her brother disabled and her mother who takes time to nap and take pills. However there's a twist. They don't live on the Earth as we know it. Instead they live on Interment which is like Jack and the Beanstalk (A castle in the sky except instead of a castle it's land). Noone goes up nor down. Therefore the few who do decide to go to the edge go a little mad (Morgan's brother was one of them) or get hurt.
We all know curiousity can get the best of us and Morgan's guilty of doing just that. She constantly thinks about the edge and a life outside of Internment but there's so much at stake here. She's betrothed to fellow classmate Basil (who's a darling but I had a feeling something wasn't right about him) and best friends with artist and lover of Interment Pen. All in all it's a fantastic idea, I do love the concept but maybe I'm not the right audience for it now.
I'll probably reread this in a year or so.
