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Gleam by Tom Fletcher
Posted on: October 18, 2014
Gleam, by Tom Fletcher
UK Publish date: Sept 4 2014
US Publish date: March 5 2015
where I got it: received review copy from the publisher (Thanks Jo Fletcher books!)
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In the center of a never ending plain of machinery, abandoned factories, destroyed buildings, swamps, snails, and desperation lies the Pyramid. And within the Pyramid lies civilization. Alan grew up in the Pyramid, but he wasn’t born there. He still burns with the pain and hatred of watching Pyramidders kill his family and destroy the village in which they lived. His life was spared that day, and he was taken to live in the Pyramid, to be educated and trained, and eventually take up a station, to get married, and to have a child of his own. But Alan never forgot what happened to him. Forced to watch his son be indoctrinated into the beliefs of the Pyramid, Alan begins to educate the boy on what life is really like outside, out in the discard. But the Pyramid will not suffer opinions and beliefs other than their own, Alan’s family is terrorized and he is banished, to survive if he can, back in the discard.
At a breakneck pace, Tom Fletcher zips us through Alan’s failing marriage and the challenges of being married to a born Pyramidder, and how he’ll do anything to see his son once he’s been kicked out of the Pyramid. He bribes guards with drugs and information, and hopes one day to rescue his son and wife from the lies and brainwashing of the Pyramid. But rescue them to what? He knows his wife wouldn’t want to life in the Discard, no matter how safe parts of it is, so what is he rescuing them from, and where would he take them if he was successful?
the Little Red Reviewer 
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