Here's the thing about being Inside. Ain't no one believes that they are. Ele is kept captive in a small room by a man known as 'Him'. She has never been Outside but she knows it's there and she's determined to prove it.
When Ele eventually escapes, she is forced to question everything she has ever known.
An extraordinary and powerful debut in the style of ROOM by Emma Donoghue.
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Ele lives Inside a Tower with the Others and collects Proofs of the Outside. She dreams of being an Outside Person instead of an Other but knows there are Dragons, Giants and Ogres Outside. Inside is anything but a fairytale because of Him but Inside is all she knows.
Ele is one of those girls whose story and spirit will super glue themselves inside your mind. Her resilience and spunk under unimaginable circumstances inspire me to want to be as brave and capable of facing my fears as she did hers. Her love of reading endeared her to me and, like ‘Matilda’ before her, she reinforced my belief that with books and your imagination you can endure and ultimately overcome any adversity.
Her voice, which I originally found disconcerting and disorienting, became easier to read the more I got to know her. Having only known Inside she doesn’t speak like any other character I’ve read. I loved her descriptions of objects that you and I take for granted and sometimes it took me a while to figure out what it was that she was experiencing.
Maybe it’s because I’ve read so much fiction and nonfiction with similar themes or because I try to focus on all of the details in books I plan on reviewing but I picked up on clues of some potential surprises early on. I was disappointed that there were no big revelations for me but from what I can tell based on early reviews I’m an anomaly.
Free Bonus Short Story! If you sign up to join Sarah’s Reader’s Club on her website you’ll be emailed ‘Inside’. It’s available in MOBI, ePub and PDF formats. It accompanies ‘Outside’ and is really, really good, but I cannot stress this enough - please read ‘Outside’ first or you’ll be in Spoiler World before you know it. I’m not sure if there’s an expiry date on this offer but the link worked at the time I posted this review.
Thank you so much to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Children’s UK for the opportunity to read this book. Content warnings are included in my Goodreads review.
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