The Traitors

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The two kept their relationship a secret, but we saw last night that that perhaps wasn’t the wisest of choices and might have backfired a liccle bit. He won the 2007 Waterstones' Children's Book Prize with his first novel, Darkside, and has continued to blur the lines between history and fantasy in brooding adventure and horror stories such as The Traitors and While The Others Sleep. When a stupid mistake, a thoughtless act breaks apart a friendship, the traitor must be punished, and the only way for a traitor to learn their lesson is imprisonment on the Dial. Nobody knows if he made it back to the real world, but he left behind a ray of hope that has reached through the years.

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It's a terrible place, ruled over by a cruel despot, where every day is a struggle for survival - and escape. I liked this book because the story was fiction and I like reading fiction books and it was like future. Did we ever find out what Luca did to get into the Dial and Caiman got to get out after being a collaborator but ADAM didn't! I know the Commandant told him that no-one should be left behind and all, but she should've just went with him. The side characters were interesting and I liked the whole set up of the Dial prison and the way it worked.It was the characters who bled the story, without them, it wouldn’t have been as exciting or interesting, and I have a feeling that these characters will be wholly identifiable to younger audiences as well. I liked trying to solve the mystery as I went along and sometimes had to go back in the book to help solve it.

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I'm sure that this book would be very good if you are aged 9 - 12, but PLEASE IGNORE THE RATING TEEN ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK, most teenagers will find this book very immature and simplistic. Maybe there was some deeper meaning behind it which I would've seen once I had re-read it or something but, to be honest, the majority of us don't re-read most books. If I’m not a Traitor, those Traitors will probably be very scared of me because I’ll point them out very quickly. I would have also liked to see more of the Tally-Ho Escape Committee, whose antics form the backdrop to the story but who are shown as little more than paranoid brutes. The Traitors episode four finally came around last night, after the longest drought ever waiting from Thursday last week for a crumb more drama.Maybe because I am quite like Paintpot, but he seemed closer to Paintpot half the book than he did to Jessica until Paintpot suddenly disappeared from the storyline, which was probably because she was getting out of the Dial, but it would've been nice and would add drama which we all have a love/hate relationship with. Thank goodness it's a stand-alone though, because I can't imagine having this premise to have a decent sequel.

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But the ideas for the prison is well-invented, creative and it shows the dexterous capability of the author to illicit inspirational from everyday items, such as the clock.It’s a fast-paced, breezy read but the world building is a little undercooked and the female characters depressingly stereotypical. He had betrayed his friend, so already the reader is not sure if they should like him but then you can feel his suffering, you can see he’s trying to reach out to his friend but it doesn’t go the way he planned. Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. g. Adam, the main character in the book, kisses his best friend's girlfriend which gets his best friend expelled from school because he trashed a lab in anger, then they get taken to the Dial to spend an eternity in the prison - although because it is in no-time 100s of years pass there without any time passing here. Some parts of the world-building were still unexplained and there's no sequel to this book so it's just a standalone which was disappointing to see.

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Some may never go there, some may be sent there for the rest of their lives, but no matter the outcome, the prison is always there as the ultimate punishment. I did feel it was a bit obvious about the identity of the bandage boy and who the traitor actually was but it didn't really detract from the story. There were a few stereotypical types but it worked within the story because it wasn’t a stereotypical story.

The book was nothing like I expected and it was constantly suprising me with shocking new twists and turns in the plot which made me happy to keep reading. His punishment is 274 years in the Dial, a prison in a no-time world, where teenage traitors are forced to atone for their crime. If you knew that your betrayal could land you punished for a hundred years, you would probably think twice before you ever betrayed again.