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The Cave by Michela Montgomery
(The Wind Cave #1)
Published by: Post Hill Press
Publication date: April 7th 2015
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic

Synopsis:

When a nuclear war devastates the U.S., a four-day excursion quickly turns into a fight for survival in The Cave. Six Stanford students journey into one of the deepest and longest caves in North America. A day into their journey, a nuclear war begins from within the U.S. Unable to return to the surface, and unsure what they will find when they do, the Cave will test the strength and survival of each person differently – transforming six individuals into a team, and ultimately…a family.

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I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Six college students all make plans to spend four days exploring Wind Cave during summer vacation. The idea was originally Kate’s. She wanted to spend her summer vacation with her lab partner of three years with Percy and her best friend and roommate Ano whom she met on her first day at Stanford. Kate wanted to this time alone with Percy to tell him how she felt about him. She had finally made up her mind to tell him and thought that spending four days in a cave with him would be her best opportunity.

But what she didn’t know was that Percy had a little surprise for her that she was not expecting. He was bringing three more people with them and one of them was a girl that he has been dating. Now my question is; why is he planning a vacation with two girls and he doesn’t tell them he has a girlfriend and that she is going caving with them. The two guys I can understand well maybe, I don’t know but a girl, come on. I actually I think he should have told them about the other three when he found out. If he didn’t have time to call them he sure had plenty of time on ride over to pick them up.

So now Kate is in a pickled and doesn’t know what she is going to do. Not to mention that her heart is probably broken. Kate has always been a loner. She grew without any friends and she never had a boyfriend before so yes she is very naive about a lot of things. But it doesn’t make her a DA. You can’t have knowledge of something if no one has ever told you about it or if you have not experienced it for yourself which Kate has not in this instance.

The great thing is that Carlie is very mature about it when she figures out that Kate likes Percy. She handles it very well. She doesn’t get mad at Kate and treats her as if they are best friends. She sees that Kate is a good person someone who needs a little guidance in her life and tries to help her make a choice concerning her future. Carlie like Kate and Ano too of course are all always trying to do the right thing. They all seem to have big hearts and care about other people’s feelings. Kate had Ano to lean on and a shoulder to cry on when she needed it. Ano knew Kate almost as well or better than Kate new herself and was a big help to her.

One of the other guys in their group liked Kate and had liked her for a long time. While Kate knew who he was she had never really met him. Everyone at Stanford knew who Matt was. His family was like some kind of big wheels at the school. Matt was always paying attention and watching Kate whenever he saw her on campus but Kate never paid him any attention. She never thought that someone like Matt would ever be interested in someone like her so she never thought anything about him. I mean she did see him; there was no way she could miss seeing him considering who he was and of course he was always surrounded by girls all competing for his attention. After spending time with Matt inside the cave she found out that he was not the kind of person she thought him to be and she came to care for him more than she thought she could or would. At times Kate was confused about her feelings for both guys.

While they were supposed to only spend four days in the cave they ended up doing more exploring than they planned. While in the cave there was an earthquake and everyone was afraid to stay in the cave then so they decided to end their little four day vacation a little early. They started heading to the top to the nearest exit. They are almost always little earthquakes after the first one. We all have our little quirks or things that we like or into and our cavers are no different. Percy of all things brought along a seismograph and it helped him to come to the conclusion that it wasn’t an earthquake because they were no little quakes. He also brought along this thing that measured radiation in the atmosphere. He then knew that more was going on than any of them knew.

They had a little radio too that if they held it up to as close as they could to the exit they could hear the news or part of it. The signal was very weak so the radio announcer kept breaking up. But they did manage to hear enough to piece all the information together to find out that the United States was under attack and that they could not leave the cave yet. They would have to go deeper into the cave and wait it out until it was safe to leave. Hopefully they would have enough food and water to last the extra time they would have to spend in the cave.

They had no clue as to the extent of the damage they would find when they would finally be able to exit the cave. And of course they were all worried about their families if they were still alive or if they would be safe if they left the cave or if anything was still alive or left on the topside. Would they be the only people left alive? Will they be able to survive if they left the cave? What choice did they have?

I have had an obsession on reading dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and apocalyptic and end of the world type of books lately. I want to read every book I see in these genres. So when I say that I really enjoyed reading The Cave I am not kidding. I really did love it and can’t wait for book two. I can’t wait to find out what they will find if and when they leave the cave. What happened while they were in the cave? Were they any survivors? Can they live in what may be left in the world? Will they all end up staying together or will they go their separate ways? Who will Kate end up with? Will it be Percy or Matt? Or will she have a different road to travel? 

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