Kevin Brooks

Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.

The bunker diary

The Bunker Diary

unexpectedly creepy and definitely tragic :(

chloe

Melissa Palmer

Book #132 Read in 2015
The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

Be prepared to throw this book across the room when you finish it. Linus, a teenage runaway, is kidnapped and brought to a underground bunker. He is soon joined by other victims. The man who brought them there controls everything--lights, heat, food etc. Why has he done this? This book takes on a sort of Lord of the Flies mentality at times and the lack of reasoning as to why this is happening frustrated me. That being said, I could see high school boys liking this book. 

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The ending was so sad, It left me empty, poor things 

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Jeannette Ordas

So compelling and so, so bleak. BLEAK. What's the message here? Witness the worst that life can be? As I was nearing the end of this book (and I read it quickly - it's a very easy to gobble up novel), I was reminded of the BBC series, Black Mirror, a cynical and dark Twilight Zone for the modern age. I don't really know how to rate this book, so I'll give it 3 stars. I'm sure this book will sit with me for a long while.

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Francis Buggey

This book was phenomenal. Words can't express how hard this book hit me in the gut. The ending wasn't happy... But it shouldn't have been. Scary, thought provoking, and gut wrenching.

People have simple needs. Food, water, light, space. Maybe a small measure of dignity. What happens when someone takes all that away? This pulse-pounding, award-winning novel explores what happens when your worst nightmare comes true.

Sage

I loved it. It kept me on edge the whole story, not really knowing what was going to happen next. Most stories are predictable and follow the same pattern, but this story is the complete opposite. This book was so well written, it made me feel sick at the thought of what happened to these people. The ending was heartbreaking. There was blank pages at the end of my copy, which I wasn't sure were meant to be there, but it broke my heart even more.

Eleanor Luhar

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The whole idea of this book really intrigued me. A 16-year-old boy, Linus, is kidnapped off the street and stuck in what appears to be an underground bunker. The book is written as his diary, like the title suggests. There are a few diagrams to help the reader visualise the scene, and it's full of Linus's thoughts and ideas as well as the events that take place.

The ending was so unexpected, and I absolutely adored it. It wasn't a typical happy ending. It wasn't even a resolved ending. Everything sort of just fades out, and it ends mid-sentence followed by numerous empty pages. I suppose this is what makes it more realistic, and more like someone's diary.

Linus is followed by five other people in the bunker; little Jenny, Anja, Fred, Bird and Russell. Tensions are high, and they're faced with numerous horrific problems. They can't find a way to escape, and although things are bearable at first, The Man Upstairs soon stops sending down food supplies or providing heating or energy. Everyone is struggling to survive, to keep up hope. But there doesn't seem to be a way out, a way to contact the outside world. 

Eventually, things start to really go downhill. People start to lose their lives in numerous horrendous ways, and there's only so long a group of people can survive for without food, water, heat, or electricity. The pain seems endless.

This is such an exciting book, where you never know what's coming next. It was even rather emotional, and extremely hard to contemplate being in such horrible circumstances. I really enjoyed The Bunker Diary and all the plots it includes. An easy 4 stars for this.

Sophie

Ik vond het een leuk boek om snel we te lezen maar niet heel speciaal.
Het einde vond ik wel een beetje apart en niet heel erg leuk.

Hope Lenzen

I liked this book.

It was captivating and intense yet heartbreaking and sad. I loved the writing style and the plot.

The end... Just ... Why? Why would you end it like that? It's a real ending though and I loved it for that.

Amy Buckle

I read this book on a recommendation, and had no idea what it was about, trusting the judgement of someone who had already read it. When I think of the book, there are a few words that come to mind: unusual, original and chilling. It is difficult for me to confine this story to a genre, but one thing is for sure, I am utterly bewildered as to why this is a children’s novel. The story is from the perspective of Linus Weems, a seemingly ordinary teenager who has experienced the grief of losing his mother and has subsequently run away from home, unable to deal with his father. While he is adjusting to living on the streets, Linus comes to the aid of a blind man who needs help. The next thing he knows, Linus wakes up in a bunker, alone, imprisoned,... read the full review here: https://www.amybucklesbookshelf.co.uk...

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