{"id":3713,"date":"2015-08-06T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:09:43","slug":"undertow-by-michael-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"Undertow by Michael Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3890\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1608244\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3890\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Undertow-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Undertow\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Undertow-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Undertow.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really enjoyed the fact that\u00a0this book didn&#8217;t fit neatly into a single category.\u00a0\u00a0Readers who enjoyed the fantastic, blood-thirsty mermaids in <a title=\"Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/07\/lies-beneath-by-anne-greenwood-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lies Beneath<\/em><\/a>\u00a0will likely be enthralled\u00a0by the different\u00a0races of the Alphas and their various body types,\u00a0weapons, and\u00a0powers.\u00a0 Fans of\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/25\/the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hunger Games<\/a><\/em>\u00a0are sure to appreciate\u00a0the various layers of societal resistance, government involvement, and fighting for survival. \u00a0And, of course,\u00a0readers\u00a0who prefer their dystopias with a side of angsty\/forbidden love, like in the\u00a0<a title=\"Delirium by Lauren Oliver\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/20\/delirium-by-lauren-oliver\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Delirium<\/em><\/a>\u00a0series, will not be disappointed!<\/p>\n<p>When the Alpha emerge from the Atlantic and set up camp\u00a0on the shores of\u00a0Coney Island, Lyric Walker&#8217;s world is turned upside down. \u00a0Her mother, who came with a smaller &#8220;scout&#8221; group of Alpha is desperate to find her family but needs to remain hidden &#8212; for fear that she will either be punished by the Alpha or taken away by the US government for medical experimentation at a secret internment camp to which\u00a0most of the other &#8220;scout&#8221; Alphas were relocated. \u00a0Lyric\u00a0knows that she is supposed to keep a low profile so that no one discovers the truth about her mother&#8217;s identity, but she somehow ends up being assigned as a peer mentor to the\u00a0Alpha prince. \u00a0With the impending threat of harm to her family and the very real possibility of war between the humans and the Alphas, it&#8217;s no wonder Lyric&#8217;s every move had me on the edge of my seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the fact that\u00a0this book didn&#8217;t fit neatly into a single category.\u00a0\u00a0Readers who enjoyed the fantastic, blood-thirsty mermaids in Lies Beneath\u00a0will likely be enthralled\u00a0by the different\u00a0races of the Alphas and their various body types,\u00a0weapons, and\u00a0powers.\u00a0 Fans of\u00a0The Hunger Games\u00a0are sure to appreciate\u00a0the various layers of societal resistance, government involvement, and fighting for survival. &hellip; 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