Britney's Review of No Safety in Numbers

                                                                                

 No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
Publication Date: May 29, 2012
Summary: Life As We Knew It meets Lord of the Flies in a mall that looks just like yours.
A biological bomb has just been discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall. At first nobody knows if it's even life threatening, but then the entire complex is quarantined, people start getting sick, supplies start running low, and there's no way out. Among the hundreds of trapped shoppers are four teens.
These four different narrators, each with their own stories, must cope in unique, surprising styles, changing in ways they wouldn't have predicted, trying to find solace, safety, and escape at a time when the adults are behaving badly.
This is a gripping look at people and how they can-and must-change under the most dire of circumstances.
And not always for the better.



My Rating: 4/5 Stars

My Review: I did enjoy this book, but it didn't quite have everything I wanted. I didn't not connect with any of the characters of really feel for them. I cared about them enough to not want them to die, but not much else. Well, except Marco. I hate him and would be happy if at the end of the series he didn't make it out of the mall. Like it said in the summary there are four different teens who tell the story, and I liked that part. I didn't feel trapped with one character the entire book, and instead it skipped around and that helped it move along. It's scary to think that something like this could actually happen. These people went to the mall on a typical Saturday but instead of ending up at home that night and sleeping in their own beds, they end up stuck in the mall for some reason they haven't even been told. People start acting in all kinds of ways, and a lot of these ways were not the best, and caused many problems. It's something that would actually happen though, if people were trapped in a mall of course they are going to start acting differently. I would have liked to know more about the bomb and how it got there and for what reason. I'm hoping those questions are answered by the end of the series.