"The Compound"

Do you ever look at your dad and think, "Wow. He is CRAZY." Well, I hate to tell you, but as you grow older that is going to be happening more and more often.

That's a subject for another day, what I really want to talk about is "The Compound" and how crazy the dad in this story is. He is...really, really crazy. Off the deep end. Completely loony.

This is a story about a family, told from the perspective of a male teenager, who have taken shelter from nuclear war. They are hiding underground, in an awesome shelter (the father of the family, the crazy dad, is a billionaire genius) which has rooms and games and tons of food. But as time ticks on, they are running out of food and they have to face some awful possibilities...like eating each other.

There are so many twists in this story you aren't going to be able to put it down. Your mouth will hurt from gasping "Ahhh" at every turn in the story, and you'll be tired from staying up all night to read but you'll never regret it.

If you're younger and not claustrophobic try "The Boy in the Blue Pajamas"...