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Nil Unlocked (Nil Series), by Lynne Matson
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On the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape―or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever.
Raiders have grown bolder, supplies are dwindling, and non-human inhabitants have taken a turn toward the deadly. New arrivals cause rifts within the City, putting the Search system at risk, and calling everything Rives knows into question. Desperate for answers, he teams up with the only other person searching for them: Skye, a new arrival with a mysterious past of her own. Soon the duo find themselves locked in a desperate race to save all the residents of Nil―and possibly destroy the island forever. But at what cost? And who will pay the price?
Nil Unlocked (Nil Series), by Lynne Matson- Amazon Sales Rank: #244719 in Books
- Brand: Matson, Lynne
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x 1.45" w x 5.81" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 432 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—Rives watches as his close friends Charley and Thad disappear, hopefully to safety. Every teenager deposited unwillingly on the island of Nil needs to catch an unpredictable outbound "gate" (shimmering wall of hot air) within a year of their arrival, or they will die. Now, Rives is Leader and feels the weight of responsibility. Skye's father's obsession with finding Nil started when his twin, Scott, was taken and then died not long after his return. When Skye meets Charley back in the United States and hears Charley's story, she knows Nil is real. Skye and her father travel to the South Pacific, where he suspects the island is located. When Skye irrationally follows a native boy through a gate, she, too, ends up on Nil. Skye and Rives are determined to unlock Nil's secret, lead a mass exodus from the nightmare, and maybe, take down the island altogether. Readers starting with this book will feel a little lost and cheated to have missed Charley and Thad's story in Nil (Holt, 2014). However, Rives and Skye's narratives will ensnare readers quickly. The island setting is akin to William Golding's Lord of the Flies, but the story of teens working together to escape will appeal to fans of James Dashner's The Maze Runner (Delacorte, 2009). VERDICT A must-have for fans of the first installment, but sufficiently interesting enough to draw in new readers.—Kelly Jo Lasher, Middle Township High School, Cape May Court House, NJ
Review PRAISE FOR NIL:A fast, tense gift for readers wanting to return to Nil. (Kirkus Reviews)A must-have for fans of the first installment, but sufficiently interesting enough to draw in new readers. (School Library Journal)What elevates this survival romance is Charley's strong, smart character . . . most readers will be too busy devouring the book in one sitting. (Booklist)*Matson brings a unique twist to a survival story with similarities to the TV reality show Survivor . . . a strongly written fantasty. (VOYA, STARRED REVIEW)The reader is swept along with the characters in just rooting for survival in a setting where taking too long to ponder answers could mean you don't live long enough to do anything with your newfound revelations. (BCCB)The concept of Nil is very interesting and well-constructed . . . Overall, this book hits its mark. (School Library Journal)Matson makes a strong debut with this tense, cinematic struggle for survival on a peril-filled island that may have some readers flashing back to episodes of Lost. (Publishers Weekly)Nil is a page-turner and compulsively readable. Lynne Matson has created a winning story with the perfect mix of edge-of-your-seat suspense, romance, humor. (Mary E. Pearson, author of The Jenna Fox Chronicles)Like Survivor with a body count. Nil is an addicting, fast-paced, thrill of a ride. (Kasie West, author of Pivot Point)Matson's eye for detail and skillful characterizations fuel a fast-pased story that blends beauty, horror, romance and adventure. (Publishers Weekly)
About the Author
Lynne Matson grew up in Georgia in a house full of books and a backyard full of gnarly pines. She attended the University of Florida, where she met and married her husband, the cutest boy she's ever seen. Now, Lynne is mother to four amazing boys. A former attorney, she is thrilled to be making a new career in YA fiction.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Review for Nil Unlocked by Lynne Matson By Alyssa ***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***Nil Unlocked by Lynne MatsonBook Two of the Nil seriesPublisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)Publication Date: May 12, 2015Rating: 4 starsSource: ARC sent by the publisherSummary (from Goodreads):On the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape—or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever.Raiders have grown bolder, supplies are dwindling, and non-human inhabitants have taken a turn toward the deadly. New arrivals cause rifts within the City, putting the Search system at risk, and calling everything Rives knows into question. Desperate for answers, he teams up with the only other person searching for them: Skye, a new arrival with a mysterious past of her own. Soon the duo find themselves locked in a desperate race to save all the residents of Nil—and possibly destroy the island forever. But at what cost? And who will pay the price?What I Liked:I thought Nil was pretty great... this book was either as good, or better! It's a tie in my head, and that's totally okay because both books were really, really good! Both are very solid, very well-written science fiction/thriller/Lord-of-the-Flies-esque novels. This book is on the longer side, but the story had me by its claws. I couldn't stop reading!Rives has a few months left before he disappears from Nil, lost to known. Charley and Thad caught gates and are (hopefully) made it home (remember, Rives has no way of knowing this, though we as readers now, after the ending of Nil). Meanwhile, we have Skye and her odd father, who are both out searching for Nil. Skye's uncle (her father's brother) was on Nil years ago as a teenager, and returned, haunted by his experience there. Skye's father is convinced that Nil existed. Skye isn't as convinced... until she finds a way into the mysterious island. Now Skye has her own Nil countdown, but she's also armed with knowledge of Nil. Skye, Rives, and the rest of the teenagers on the island don't have long before something immense happens, and it's too late to save themselves.I remember finishing Nil and thinking, that's it? No more? What about all the questions I have? There were soooo many unanswered questions at the end of Nil, and there was no mention of a sequel or a companion, at that point. This book, Nil Unlocked, functions well as a standalone, by the way. The protagonists are not the same protagonists as in Nil, though the protagonists in Nil do appear in this book. So you can read this one without having read Nil. In any case, I read Nil, and I read this one, and a lot of questions I had from Nil were answered in this book. Obviously I'm not going to enumerate what was revealed in this book (that would be involving lots of spoilers), but I will say that I was satisfied with the amount of answers I got from this book. Finally!Rives is one of two protagonists in this book. We get his first-person perspective, and Skye's. I actually didn't have a preference as to who I liked better - I liked them both, and enjoyed reading from both of their perspectives. Usually I'll like one more than the other, but that wasn't the case with this book. Which is great!Getting into Rives' head was an experience. He's weighed down by the role of Leader. He genuinely cares about all of the teenagers in the City, and wants to protect them all. It burdens him more than anyone else when someone is hurt, or dies, or runs out of time. Rives comes across as calculating and quiet, but he is not the unfeeling creature he appears to be. Actually, he doesn't really appear to be unfeeling. Maybe... shut down. Everyone knows he cares so much about everyone, but everyone can also see that he is lonely, and burdened. I like Rives a lot. I can't remember my impression of him in Nil, but I thought he was pretty great in this book. He's very careful, very observant, very protective, very selfless.Skye is flame to his ice. She is impulsive - she goes with her strange, half-crazy astrophysicist father to find some mysterious island that doesn't exist. Or does it? When they arrive at an island in the ocean, she does some investigating of her own... and follows a boy through a gate, to Nil. She and the boy are now on Nil, with their own Nil countdowns. But the boy knows much more than he's telling her, and that includes a wealth information about Nil, and how to leave.I liked Skye! She is calm and rational (most of the time), but also impulsive and fierce. Her father always thought Nil was real (because of his brother), and he had Skye train and prepare and learn random survival because of his fear of Nil. As it would turn out, those skills came in handy. Skye is a fighter, and she is very smart.We get to know a lot more about Nil's history, and why it is exists. We find out how it came about, its purpose, and much more about the "rules" of Nil. There is a sciencey aspect to some of the explanations, which is cool. There are other more strange aspects too. I can't say much without giving anything away, so I'll leave it at that. I'm so glad I read this novel, because it gave me the answers I needed! And it was a really good book.The story never ceased to be interesting, and the pages started to fly by as I kept reading. There was a serious creepy factor to this book - there were times when the story seemed chilling and a bit scary. Of course, I'm terrified of even the slightest "scary" thing - I hate scary movies and horror fiction and all that jazz. There were some points in this book when I was slightly terrified. But this is a good thing! Notice I'm not putting this comment in the "dislikes" section below.There IS romance! And it is a semi important part of this book, though not the whole plot of the story. Rives and Skye fall for each other slowly and subtly, and it takes about seventy-five percent of the book for either of them to really recognize their feelings. Or maybe a little less than that. Either way, the romance in this book is really sweet. Rives needed someone like Skye, and I'm really glad he could have someone with him on Nil, until the end.The end... what an end. I'm thinking there has to be a third book to this series? I think I remember the author telling me that she was working on one. I think it was Lynne. The ending of this book is satisfying in most ways, but there is definitely room for a third novel. Like, the ending silently screams for one! Not necessarily a cliffhanger, because this book ends well, but I would be highly interested in seeing a third book in this series!What I Did Not Like:I can't thinking of anything at the moment... Lynne Matson is AMAZING. Her writing, storytelling, world building, etc. is excellent!Would I Recommend It:YES! I recommend this book - or series in general. Remember what I said, this book can be read as a standalone! The series seems to be a companion series of a sort. Different protagonists in each book. Which makes me curious as to who the third book will feature... I have an idea of the male. Anyway. I like this series! Science fiction, thriller, survival story, whatever you want to call it, I like it!Rating:4 stars. Nil and this book actually aren't my typical reads - I'm not a fan of survival stories - but I'm glad I gave the series a shot last year, when I won a giveaway for an ARC of Nil. I love how that worked out! Now, book three!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. If you like LOST, then you need to read this series! By Brittany When I first read NIL last year, I was so pleasantly surprised! I went into the book not knowing what to expect and I ended up really, really enjoying it. It was an interesting kind of science-fiction, focusing more on what sort of phenomena may occur in nature and take the world by surprise instead of a man-made or manipulated experiment. The island of Nil really comes alive in book two (no, really. It's kind of alive) and it added yet another enjoyable layer to this series!NIL UNLOCKED is told from alternating point-of-views: Rives, a "Nil survivor" who the readers met in book one, and Skye, a girl whose uncle had survived Nil and whose father is obsessed with finding the island. I did find myself missing the two main characters from the previous book, Charley and Thad, at the very beginning but the book quickly swept me away and I was anxious to see what other mysteries Nil had in store. I think my only regret is that I wasn't able to read these two closer together because I had a hard time remember a lot about Rives and the other kids on the island because I was SO focused on Charley and Thad in the first book.That being said, I really did appreciate getting to know Rives as a main character in this book. I really enjoyed his personal ties to the island (they seemed much more personal than Charley's and Thad's) as well as watching him grow into his new leadership position. Then we get to know Skye who is the other half of the story and she was quite the fireball and a great balance for Rives. Their interactions really kept the story moving and they kept each other alert and hungry for answers. But my favorite new character may be the island of Nil itself. NIL introduced us to the mysteries that may dwell beneath the surface but NIL UNLOCKED really allowed the characters and the readers to explore the deeper secrets. The island of Nil started to really come alive and it was so fun to see the way it shaped the book. When done well, I really enjoy when a setting sort of takes on the role of a character and NIL UNLOCKED really nailed it!I actually didn't know that there was a third book going into my read of NIL UNLOCKED... and I actually didn't realize when I finished it either. I'm not quite sure if I'd categorize this as a series since the plot does continue from book one to book two or companions since the main characters are different but any which way you slice it, the two books out so far really do stand well on their own (though I still advise to read them in order). It's refreshing to have the feeling that the story can continue and yet the reader isn't left with gaping holes or giant cliffhangers. There's always more to explore when it comes to Nil but so far these two books wrap up nicely!If you're a sci-fi fan (and I won't tire of saying it... especially if you're a fan of LOST), you need to check out these books! It was really refreshing to read this corner of science-fiction with more of nature-focus than futuristic and gadgety. There's so much happening in this book that the feel ranges from sci-fi to thriller to mystery and there's even a bit of romance. I really enjoy this series so far and I hope others will keep on picking it up!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Full of adventure, kickassery, and a wee bit of romance By Nose In A Book So super excited. I loved NIL - something about island books, I've been on a run of great ones and NIL was no exception. So I jumped at the chance to go back to this crazy place.Matson has done a great job with the follow-up to the story. It's all of the same crazy island shenanigans and a few of the same players, but we're introduced to Skye, the daughter of an astrophysicist obsessed with uncovering the secret island his brother disappeared to and returned from as a teenager. Skye atfirst thinks her father is a bit cracked, but then she reads her Uncle Scott's journal and starts to buy into the story. So when her dad takes off for Micronesia to seek NIL out, Skye insists on traveling with him.This follow up is also dual POV following Skye's story and new leader of the City, Rives' story, but what I loved is we get to know the island itself in this book. NIL was certainly setting as character in book 1, but in NIL Unlocked, there's no denying that the island is firmly a character as much as Rives, Skye, and all of the others.Leopards, Hyenas, Lions, a Tiger who will surprise you - NIL still holds danger, but this time it also holds the keys to its heart and the balance it so desperately seeks. And the ending was perfect for me.This is a story that grows as the pages turn, can be read without reading the first (though probably you'll get more out of it if you've read both), is full of adventure, kickassery, and a wee bit of romance. Also, lots and lots of fish wraps. A great escape of a read!
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