Book: Under the Never Sky

Genre: YA

Type: Audiobook

Book rating: ☆☆☆1/2

Narration rating: ☆☆☆1/2

I liked this book, it was well written mostly and I enjoyed the story.

Aria lives in a pod as well as thousands of others, they have to do this as after the Aether storms the planet was ravished, outside is now called The Death Shop.

Instead of going outside in real life they do it virtually with a smart eye attached to ......yep you guessed it their eye.
This takes them into different realms so they can experience different things and call it "Better than Real"

However there are people that live on the outside called Savages dum dum duuuummmm!
**Can you see where this is going yet?**

The Savages live in tribes run by The Blood Lord and they seem to have special abilities like extra sensory hearing and smelling.

Now when I heard the words Aether and Blood Lord together I nearly turned the book off as I had an awful feeling it was going to be another long boring book that didn't make any sense **cough cough [book:The Bone Season]** however is isn't so you can relax.

After being exciled from the pod after being set up Aria (Who sings , shock horror) wanders around nonchalantly trying to find somewhere to go, she is however nearly killed and is rescued by a Savage called Perry.

Perry is looking for his nephew who has been taken by one of the Pod people, (Moles to you and me) and Aria is looking for her mother who works at BLISS (another pod far away i think) So they link arms and skip off together to find them and to take Aria back home, although they don't link arms they hate each other.

This book was quite confusing as a lot of the words used were just left to your imagination and not described, I mean what the hell is the Aether?

Anyway as all YA books go, after a lot of anger and smoldering looks they fall for each other but not before they are nearly killed by cannibals and eaten by wolves.

I did enjoy the book and will read the others but hope that there is a bit more explanation in the next ones.