Post by chrisv on May 10, 2017 11:22:46 GMT -5
EDITED (*however, I'm wondering now if this book isn't too dystopian; I was trying to ride the time travel angle, and the "big reveal" with the government meeting doesn't occur until 5/6 or so of the way through the book; please let me know of your opinion about that; thanks!)
Seventeen-year-old Zaymie is sick to her soul of living in the super-cramped domed city that shields the population from the over-polluted Earth. So, when she and her two friends almost discover a way to eradicate the contagion, the government lets them in on a whopping secret: The pollution is about to finally eat through the dome and annihilate everyone. Impressed by the teens’ genius and dedication to improving humanity, the government selects them for a desperate, top-secret mission of traveling back in time and preventing the advent of the pollution.
But shortly after blastoff, Zaymie and her friends’ time machine breaks down in an unknown time filled with hostile cavemen, giant, mechanical spiders, and ferocious, outlandish beasts, including bears with tusks and alligators with shark heads. Without tools to fix their machine so they can resume their mission, the teens climb a mountain in search of intelligent life—only to eavesdrop on a government meeting.
Turns out Zaymie and her friends have been in the current time all along and were dispatched in a deadly jungle, left to die. Apparently the rulers lied to the public about Earth still being polluted, the jungle created by one of the cities’ sadistic rulers out of sheer enjoyment. The rulers seek to relish planet Earth all for themselves, and the teens are a threat to that. Even worse, the rulers catch the teens eavesdropping on their meeting. Now Zaymie and her friends must make their way back to the domed city and inform everybody about the leaders’ corruption before they get liquidized—or worse.
Seventeen-year-old Zaymie is sick to her soul of living in the super-cramped domed city that shields the population from the over-polluted Earth. So, when she and her two friends almost discover a way to eradicate the contagion, the government lets them in on a whopping secret: The pollution is about to finally eat through the dome and annihilate everyone. Impressed by the teens’ genius and dedication to improving humanity, the government selects them for a desperate, top-secret mission of traveling back in time and preventing the advent of the pollution.
But shortly after blastoff, Zaymie and her friends’ time machine breaks down in an unknown time filled with hostile cavemen, giant, mechanical spiders, and ferocious, outlandish beasts, including bears with tusks and alligators with shark heads. Without tools to fix their machine so they can resume their mission, the teens climb a mountain in search of intelligent life—only to eavesdrop on a government meeting.
Turns out Zaymie and her friends have been in the current time all along and were dispatched in a deadly jungle, left to die. Apparently the rulers lied to the public about Earth still being polluted, the jungle created by one of the cities’ sadistic rulers out of sheer enjoyment. The rulers seek to relish planet Earth all for themselves, and the teens are a threat to that. Even worse, the rulers catch the teens eavesdropping on their meeting. Now Zaymie and her friends must make their way back to the domed city and inform everybody about the leaders’ corruption before they get liquidized—or worse.