But actually, I really liked what the other characters bring to the story. I did think that perhaps once more characters started arriving to fill out these further bedrooms that things might take a turn for the not-so-scary and thus my enjoyment might fade. The panic that he feels at the beginning is so tangible that I felt my chest constrict in fear and my own heart beat start racing. He's stuck in a place in which he has no control over, he's completely isolated and vulnerable. I felt myself quite easily imagining myself in Linus' position, completely powerless and helpless. It's these first few chapters that I found the most heart-stopping and tense.
The bunker is sealed tight with six bedrooms fully bugged and only one lift to get in and out. One day he's helping a blind man lifting some boxes into a van and later, he wakes up in this bunker, having been drugged. has been living it rough on the streets for the past few months after falling out with his father. We're told this story from the perspective of a teenage boy, Linus who, though from a wealthy family. The Bunker Diary is, as the title suggests, told in a diary format. and while that is definitely true, I also really loved how much this book made me think and the emotion that it stirred up as I went flying through its pages! Kevin Brooks is an amazing author, and The Bunker Diary is a very hard-hitting, thought-provoking and scary book!
I am such a huge fan of Kevin Brooks and I was immediately excited to hear of this latest book, The Bunker Diary, especially as it has been billed as 'Room meets Lord of the Flies.' All I'd really heard about the book before I sat down to read it is that it's pretty terrifying.
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