Outpost ann aguirre6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() This is where the story started getting really dark for me. Boys never grow to be old because they die brutal, violent deaths. While below, where Deuce is from, people don’t live long likely because of malnutrition and humans being unsuited to living underground, people don’t live long topside because it is eat or be eaten. It’s survival of the fittest, and that only applies to boys. ![]() Topside in the city, everything is run by various gangs. Until she was paired with him, she never questioned the rules her community set, and this questioning gets both of them exiled to the Topside, which is seen as a death sentence.Īfter Deuce and Fade make it Topside, they stumble into gang territory. Each hunter works with a partner, and Deuce is paired up with Fade, the only person in the community who was brought in as an outsider (they allowed him to live because he survived for a few years on his own without help, and was therefore seen as useful to the community). Deuce has always known she wants to be a Hunter, a job that requires members to protect the community from what we would call zombies, as well as scavenge for any food in the tunnels. There are three categories people are sorted into when they come of age: Breeder, Builder, and Hunter, each with more prestige attached respectively. ![]() Small communities are spread underground, and they have to have very strict control on population and hygiene because communities are easily wiped out with lack of food and disease. The first book opens with a quick background on where humans are now. ![]()
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