Julie's review
Tunnels
by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
Julie's review
Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
Julie's review
rating:
Will’s one connection with his absent-minded father is their shared love of digging; Will has learned how to excavate and has provided much of the grunt work for some minor finds. His mother is in a TV haze, and his sister, an oddly anal-retentive girl, keeps the household running. When his father disappears, Will is certain that it has to do with some secret project, and soon he and his friend Chester have followed Mr. Burrows into a lost underground world. Here, the story turns quite dark: the world is a police state with sadistic guards and merciless overlords, the Styx, whose prime objective is to keep “Topsoilers” from finding them. Will, with some help from some underground people, makes some harrowing escapes as he tries to find his father. The brutality of the Styx makes this inappropriate for the younger range of young adult readers, as does the nightmarish quality of Will's adventure.
