Snyder, Maria V. - Inside Out (Inside Out #1) - April 2011 Anything Goes BOM

[Lisarenee]

This topic is now open for discussion of Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder. Be prepared for SPOILERS.

Description on Goodreads:

"Keep Your Head Down.

Don't Get Noticed.

Or Else.

I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to girl to lead a revolution."

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Published April 1st 2010 by Harlequin (first published March 24th 2010)
Next book in series: Outside In

[Kellyflower]

I read this back in February.
I liked the way Snyder created a world of small hall ways, narrow passages, pipes, vents & Gaps. It's a world full of propaganda that leaves everyone leery of everyone.
In it she places, Trella and the scubs, along with them is you. Your right there with Trella as she's squeezing through air ducts, peeking/spying on the "uppers" .
I'll admit while reading it I thought, mmm.."I wonder if this is like the book Incarceron?" but honestly it's not.
The whole time reading it I wanted to know the same thing Trella wanted to know, "What's Outside?"

I was upset about (view spoiler)[ Cog dying. Was that really necessary? Maybe she did that to avoid a love triangle. (hide spoiler)]

I'm currently reading the sequel

[Kellyflower]

Also want to add there is a small map of the "inside" at Maria V. Snyder's website:
http://www.mariavsnyder.com/images/ar...

[Sashana]

I enjoyed the book. At first Cog reminded me of a younger and sober version of Haymitch from The Hunger Games and Trella reminded me of Katniss. I was quickly proven wrong once I continued to read. Like Kelly, I love how Snyder set up inside. I like how they used weeks instead of years to measure time. I loved the terminology (pop cops, scrubs, uppers) and how the little things made up this awesome new society. I think that I'll like Outside In much better because I feel like this book just gave us a small glimpse of everything. One more thing (view spoiler)[I had no idea that Outside would be in the middle of space (hide spoiler)]

[Sandra]

I have this one on hold at my library. Hopefully it wont be too much longer.

[Alicia]

I really enjoyed it too! This was a nice change of pace for me after reading all six of Snyder's Study/Glass series. Like everyone else has said, I thought the world-building was excellent, detailed and atmospheric - I really did get a strong sense of claustrophobia while reading about Inside. I did not predict that (view spoiler)[ the Outside was outer space either. I was totally shocked by that part! We had been given a few clues about how Outside was cold, so I had been guessing that maybe earth was going through an ice age or something like that and everyone was staying safe inside, lol. I'm weird. I didn't mind Cog dying. I mean, it's not like I wanted him to die or anything, but I think for the entire rebellion to have gone smoothly without any significant character deaths would have been unrealistic. Also, the fact that Cog was killed so quickly by the Outside really enforced the fact that Outside was dangerous and lethal, which made me as a reader feel the devastation that Trella felt when she realized Outside wasn't meadows and perfect skies much more strongly. (hide spoiler)]

[Sashana]

I agree with you in thinking that (view spoiler)[Outside was an ice age world. That was what I was thinking throughout the book. (hide spoiler)] Do you have the second book yet, Alicia?

[Alicia]

Yupp, I got them both out of the library so I'll be starting with the second one today!

[Sashana]

A Discovery of Witches is seriously slowing down my reading time.

[Alicia]

Just because it's long or is it dull or something? I have it signed out from the library, but haven't started it yet...

[Sashana]

It's the length mostly. The (almost) 600 pages of this book is taking me longer than I expected. It's not dull but it's lacking a bit of originality in my opinion. I'm having Twilight flashbacks every now and then.

[Sandra]

I am STILL waiting for this one to come in to the library - sigh!

[Jex]

Finished this book last night. I really liked the characters created by Snyder. Everyone played an important role in the final outcome. Trella constantly thinking that she had to work alone got a little old, but most YA novel heroines tend to think that way. I think the part that shocked me the most was the fact that (view spoiler)[there were levels and levels of free space on the ship that no one was putting to use. Is this something the Trava's did to control the population? Or did the information about the extra space get lost somewhere alone the way? (hide spoiler)] I'm really intrigued to see what happens in Outside In since the rebellion has basically already happened and its time to build a new society. Most dystopian novels focus so much on the rebellion that you don't see what comes of it, so I'm hoping Snyder shows a bit of that in the sequel.

[Sashana]

I also wondered that too. Was the hidden space a big secret or not? I wonder what will be the problem in the next book. Most authors would drag out the rebellion for the whole series but not in this one. I kind of like that about it. It makes me more curious to know what will happen next.