Messages can be sent in many ways. From a method as ancient as a carving on a tree, to lettering in plain view that just needs to be seen in a different light. To binary digits sent through cyberspace. To a video from a friend.
King knows this, because he's been getting those messages. Here’s what’s different. The messages to King started with emails that his friend sent him two weeks after his friend drowned trying to escape the island, an island that houses a prison with some of the most dangerous men in the country.
The most urgent message is this: “Trust no authorities. They will hunt you too.”
When King becomes the hunted, he is trapped on the same island, where he can trust no one. Not even his father.
Liam 7B
ReplyDeleteDead man's switch was a 7/10. It had a really cool techno-thriller vibe. I really like the sort of clue scavenger hunt storyline that this book was written in. I like how you never really know what's going on until the very end when they take Blake out of the high security section of the prison. However, at the end of the story, when Mack and King try to escape the island, the story turns dark and too violent.
Lucas 7A
ReplyDeleteThis book was pretty interesting and it kept me wondering throughout most of the book. I really thought that it was cool when King and Johnson were finding the hidden clues that were left by Blake like the invisible letters and the fishing with a magnet. I have to say that there were some pretty violent parts but I guess it really emphasized the need to escape. The characters were okay but I started to get confused when King was kidnapped. Overall, this book had a pretty good mystery that kept me reading on and I would rate it a 7/10 because it could have done with a bit less violence.