yesterday i was in a discussion with some dude about teen fiction, and why it is so damn compelling and why we were lately reading it to the exclusion of all other literature,despite our grown status, and his reason was because of the instant gratification of it - that the pacing is such that it can generally be read in one sitting and you want to keep reading it. and it doesn't mean that it is mindless, like a lot of adult page-turner fiction, but that it is frequently too exciting to stop read More...

For me, what rescued Dark Inside from getting an extremely negative review was the fast-paced action and adventure, weird creepiness and what Tatiana likes to call "compulsive readability". The book had many faults, which I will go into, and it was on the whole not a great work of dystopian fiction.

Basically, there's this earthquake one day and suddenly people everywhere start acting weird... becoming possessed by a violent rage, turning on their families and friends, searching the streets for More...

4.5 Stars.

Update: Fuck it, FIVE STARS!

THAT WAS FREAKING AMAZING.





An earthquake has destroyed most of the world.
Humans have been consumed by hatred and anger and have become the monsters that they truly are.
Surviving has never been this difficult.

We follow the perspectives of four kids.

Mason, whose mother has just died and he's fighting the madness inside of him.
Aries, who was caught in the earthquake that killed her best friend but was saved by a mysterious stranger.
Michael, narrowly avoiding More...

I was soooo disappointed in this book. I love good, graphic novels where the blood is bloody, the bones are crunching, and the terror is terrifying! The book started off with a natural disaster (earthquake), some weird spooky supernatural stuff, and 4 protagonists that starred in our show, I mean book. The 4 characters see some seriously creepy stuff and basically, they don’t know whom to trust, were to go and what the hell is going on. Great setup right? Yup. It was soooooooo good. And then….. More...

3.5 stars

Here’s the thing about me and horror: it’s not so much the content as the source that bothers me.

Which is not to say I’m not terrified by scary things, because I am. Absurdly so. But always in the back of my mind is the question: where did this come from? It has always been much more disturbing for me to know that someone, somewhere, came up with whatever horrific scene is playing out on screen or on the page. That even the most unrealistic scenrios were born in very real places, and t More...

Well well, don't we have a bit of a stunner here. I started DARK INSIDE without any expectation, but I've been left completely surprised by just how wonderful this book is. And hey, it's hell of a fast read. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my fast paced reads? They totally rock my world, and DARK INSIDE is no exception.

After a series of earthquakes people completely turn on each other. There is no regret, no remorse. If the earthquakes haven't done you harm then these people will make sure More...

Update 9/27/12
Even better the second time around! Now I can finally read Rage Within :D

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Can I please give this book more than five stars??? Please please please!?!?!

First off I wanna point out this is not a zombie book. There are no brain eaters in here. Just because people are killing other people in a crazy way doesn't mean they are zombies -_- I don't know how some people think of this as a zombie novel....

Just from glancing at t More...

4.5 stars :)

This book is not for the faint-hearted. The scenes in this book are extremely violent, heart wrenching, and completely fucked up. And I loved every minute of it!

I went into this novel thinking it was going to be your typical zombie-apocalypse story. But it wasn't. The creatures in this book are not zombies. They are humans. And they are seriously terrifying.

As earthquakes seem to break out across the world, so does violence. People -ordinary citizens like police officers, mothers, fa More...

2.5 stars

"Dark Inside" and I got off to such a good start. It's the kind of book that I have a great love/hate relationship with: the premise is so chilling and frightening but in an addictive, fast-paced way, but, like most people, I'm terrified of something so huge and inexplicable happening to my friends and family on a mass scale. In the opening chapters, "Dead Inside" lived up to its potential, with a hurtling, nauseous description of the four main characters getting into accidents, having More...

“We would not go gentle into that good night.”

5/5

Wow-za.

I haven’t read many apocalyptic books in my time. Frankly the prospect scares the hell out of me, so why would I want to read about it? But I just happened across Dark Inside in my local bookshop and thought, why not? It looks good, looks all action-packed and has an awesome cover. So I bought it.
It was one of the best things I have ever bought.

I have to start off by saying that this book is tense. And I mean it. You know when you’re watchi More...

This review appears on Gypsy Book Reviews.

So, basically, Dark Inside is the scariest book I’ve ever read and I now want to crawl into a hole and hide forever. If you read Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick, you will like this book—and if you were one of those who thought Ashes would have been better had the second part not be so drastically different from the first part, you will freaking LOVE Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts. Seriously.

Okay, so, here’s the deal: there’s five points of views. Nothing (who scares More...

Earthquakes rock the earth places crumble to ash and people are killed within a blink of an eye but the worse is still to come. Evil has been set free and is changing people into something dark. Killers and hunters ready to tear you apart.

Four teens Mason, Aries, Clementine and Michael each in different places fighting to stay alive and to keep the darkness out there souls. Will they live through the horror that awaits them at every corner.

In the course of the book you manly follow four charact More...

This book really dives into the action and had me on the edge of my seat, heart racing, from start to finish. It really makes your think about kind of person you'd be if the world was in an apocalyptic disarray and what you'd do to survive, as it follows four different characters on their journeys.

The book isn't sugar-coated either, terrible things happen that I didn't guess that made it feel realistic and though I suspect a supernatural element to 'the baggers' I think it really shows people ca More...

In a time when the YA market is so saturated with dystopia that it has all but become blase, Dark Inside offers a new and unique spin on the genre. (Though to be honest I don't even know if dystopia is the right descriptor to tag this with, but it's what the publisher called it so we'll go with that. ;)

For starters, rather than set sometime in the future after the apocalyptic event, Dark Inside is a contemporary novel, set at the advent of the shift. This is not a story that builds a new world o More...

The world has had enough. It wants to rid the earth of humans. One day an earthquake rips across the world and causes mass casualties. The enemy in this book is not vampires, werewolves, or ghosts. It is the people themselves. The Evil that creeps into each and every person’s mind causes normal human beings to rip and tear their own flesh and blood.

Each chapter is dedicated to four Canadian teenagers: Michael, Clementine, Aries and Mason. We follow along as each character is torn between being n More...

I actually missed out on a lot of the hype surrounding 'Dark Inside' which meant that when I received a copy of the book for review I wasn't initially sure if it was going to be my sort of thing. But I like to give everything a try so I picked it up and found that from the very first page I was well and truly hooked on the exhilarating and heart pounding apocalyptic story that debut author Jeyn Roberts had woven. This is definitely one of those books that will make you not want to leave the hous More...

Nach einem verheerenden Erdbeben kämpft sich Aries durch die zerstörten Straßen. Clementine ist die Einzige, die ein Blutbad in der Gemeindehalle überlebt. Durch einen Bombenanschlag auf seine Schule verliert Mason all seine Freunde. Michael entkommt in letzter Minute dem Amoklauf von zwei Polizisten. Sie alle müssen um ihr Überleben kämpfen und dabei geht die größte Bedrohung nicht von den zerstörerischen Erdbeben aus. Sondern von einer dunklen Kraft, die Menschen in Ungeheuer verwandelt und Ja More...

This book is a grim, violent, but mostly empty post-apocalyptic novel that disappoints throughout.

Because the narrative is split between 4 different points of view, the reader is forced to read the beginning of the novel 4 separate times. Each narrative shows a different story with different characters, but each is equally grim and disturbing.

However, what Dark Inside fails to do is to make its grim and disturbing content actually matter. There is little significance to be found when characters More...

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Dark Inside was a number of firsts for me. It was the first zombieish/esque apocalyptic novel I've read. It was the first horror novel I've ever willingly completed (I gave Stephen King a try when younger. I think my delusional line of thought was: "go big or go home." I guess you could say I "went home". . . but I digress.) This is also the first time in a long time that I have enjoyed being scared (and disturbed) so much. Unfortunately, all is not More...

Dark inside is a harrowing dystopian novel set in the near future. It is fast paced and creepy and one of those books which will continue to play on your mind long after you've finished reading it.

The book starts dramatically switching between four main characters on the day on which the world went crazy. Earthquakes are happening in multiple locations around the world and people are going crazy killing their neighbours, friends and family for no apparent reason. From the outset both the tone an More...

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With so many dystopian and post-apocalyptic books out on the young adult market, it really does take a lot to pull something new out and impress me. Dark Inside was one of those books that had a fantastic synopsis but I was worried that it wouldn't be unique because the whole 'people suddenly going crazy and murderous' has been used so much in movies.

On the surface, Dark Inside was totally amazing, the plot was amazing and the execution was a More...

i'm half tempted to start this with a "dear heath, i just met your sister and boy, was i impressed. come to think of it, the people with her were not half bad!" but instead, here's a shout out to S&S: thank you! dark inside is chock full of AWESOME, in fact it has pulled me out of my 2-2.5 reading funk of the last couple days.

there be blood. there be gore.
and there be many a cruel act, yet i could not tear myself from it. it's a very engrossing book, very readable and not your typical end of More...

Soon, in the near future, earthquakes, tsunami’s, chaos. Four lives in the balance: Mason, Aries, Michael, Clementine. Each one has a story of survival, not just from nature, but from evil itself. Evil possesses the form of everyone they now meet. No one can be trusted. They’ve all lost someone they care about, they all have felt pain. The evil was here all along, but finally the earth had enough and the killing began right after the earthquakes ended. No one is safe anymore; no one can sleep in More...

Dang, I wanted to like this book more than I did. I have the feeling that it's the first of at least a trilogy, but there's no sign of the other books. If there aren't going to be other books, the ending of this one is completely inadequate to the storytelling requirements of the book.

Aside from that, there are too many characters whose names start with the same letter, the locations aren't well-enough identified at the beginning of the book, and while some needs (food and water) are addressed, More...

Dark Inside runs in the same vein as I am legend and Stephen King’s The Cell. These books all depict an apocalypse of sorts where the Earth looses technology and all semblance of organization and is plunged into chaos and survival mode. Roberts creates a shocking horror fest. Not even youth is safe from nail biting horror and this book aims at some unsettling fears while making the reader question the darkest corner of their soul and mind. I asked - If this were to happen would I be one of the B More...

This book did not leave my hands from the first chapter on. I mean I could seriously not even think about letting it out of my sight. The end is here but it's not just the earthquakes that are taking down people, it's other people. Regular people, the ones you grew up with. Something inside is snapping and we are becoming the most dark and evil forms of ourselves. The part of us that we ignore and hide away in our daily lives and it is dominating us and bringing an end to the human race as we kn More...

We start the story with a huge earthquake on the west coast that frees a darkness that makes the evil thoughts in people come to light. Most people turn into crazed, murderous people that came to be called Baggers. The few people that remain themselves are most likely killed by the Baggers although a few have managed to survive.

The story follows four teenagers; Mason, Aries, Clementine, and Michael. After Mason’s mother dies he is afraid of the emptiness and rage in him. He decides to go to Van More...

I gave this book 5/5 Stars on my blog http://readingawaythedays.blogspot.com

In Dark Inside a earth shattering earthquake causes death and devastation across the world. Something is released when the earthquake happens. Something murderous. People start to savagely turn on each other, murdering each other for the fun of it. "No one can be trusted, not even yourself."

The story is told from four teenagers perspectives. Michael, Aries, Mason and Clementine must fight for survival and discover how th More...

I picked this book up on a whim; I read the little excerpt on the back of the book & decided to take a chance on this, so I purchased this yesterday at my local bookstore. Thankfully, I got more than my money’s worth. And it feels damn good.

So to start: when it comes to dystopia/post-apocalyptic novels, I’m not too concerned on the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, & WHYs (although some readers may be). I’m more focused on the HOWs. I want to know HOW the main characters will ultimately handle ad More...

The apocalypse. This setting is done over and over and over and over and over and over again in teen novels. Most of them are set far off in the future in a world that is ravaged, ruined, etc etc. Post apocalyptic. This novel is set in the present. It is one of the few YA books I've read that are set when the apocalypse first begins. I have lately discovered that I like that, but it scares me, because it shows the fact that this could maybe happen to us, right here right now. I don't like thinki More...