Strange Exit

 By: Parker Peevyhouse 

Location: FIC PEE

Genre: SCI FI

Strange Exit is Parker Peevyhouse's next suspenseful, near-future, stand-alone thriller, perfect for fans of Kass Morgan's The 100 and Patrick Ness's More Than This.

Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: this isn’t reality. Everyone she meets is a passenger aboard a ship that’s been orbiting Earth since a nuclear event. The simulation that was supposed to prepare them all for life after the apocalypse has trapped their minds in a shared virtual reality and their bodies in stasis chambers.

No one can get off the ship until all of the passengers are out of the sim, and no one can get out of the sim unless they believe it's a simulation. It's up to Lake to help them remember.

When Lake reveals the truth to a fellow passenger, seventeen-year-old Taren, he joins her mission to find everyone, persuade them that they’ve forgotten reality, and wake them up. But time’s running out before the simulation completely deconstructs, and soon Taren’s deciding who’s worth saving and who must be sacrificed for the greater good. Now, Lake has no choice but to pit herself against Taren in a race to find the secret heart of the sim, where something waits that will either save them or destroy them all.

I said that I was ready for mind-bending alternate realities and crazy twists...but wow, I was not prepared for this level of awesomeness.

Strange Exit was everything I hoped it would be.

It was unputdownable, and I read it in a day--and it was a busy day, at that. There was so much intrigue and suspense, and the stakes kept getting higher and higher. This book made me question what was reality and what was virtual, my head spun around and around, I made theories that were proven wrong...

And then I reached the end. After hours of guessing, it was all revealed, and it was just the kind of ending I expected from Parker Peevyhouse. An ending that put it all in perspective, and had me looking back on the story with a newfound understanding I never expected.

If you want a thriller that will keep you guessing to the end, or a virtual reality/alternate dimension book, Strange Exit is the one.