He just wants to break Riley and him free of the Colony and go back to New York but he can’t do that and each time he’s denied his way of going home, he starts to unravel more and more, losing his mind, becoming anxious and panicky. Liam is so broken, complicated and almost naive. Whenever I thought something was going good, Liam would inadvertently cause another problem or part of Riley’s mysteriousness would start to unravel and we’d learn something new about the characters and how much more complicated things could get.Ībout the characters, I absolutely adored them. What I will say is that this book definitely took me for a ride. To be honest, I don’t feel comfortable trying to explain this story because it would be hard to recreate all that in so many words.

When something happens, it doesn’t just resolve itself in a matter of moments but propels the story into another situation and another to the point that they’re all interwoven and almost all can be resolved in a specifc way… by Liam registering with the Eletes. They each had their own problems and now have the emotional and physical scars to prove it but this book is one that is constantly moving forward. I just want to say for the record that this book is really crazy! There are so many layers to not only the world and the characters but everything that Liam and Riley have to endure. Liam’s world is slowly falling apart but what will happen when Riley finally wakes up? Will Liam’s natural affinity to causing problems put them in more trouble then the two can handle?

Now Liam’s been in the ‘Colony’, a more civilized place than Topside, for five years but Riley’s been in a coma for just as long. Unfortunately for them, they had to endure one hellish situation after another to survive. His only saving grace is Riley, the man who was sucked into the mysterious place with him. Thrust into a world that’s considered ‘Topside’, life as he knew it was just about over. This review can be found at The Blog of Sid Love.Įight years ago, Liam was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Illumination by Rowan Speedwell