Enclave
Format: kindle
ASIN: B002ASFQ9U
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 370
Edition language: English
A moderately interesting premise, written in a basic and repetitive way, that is ultimately far too predictable.A former marine takes 100 problem children of the super rich (plus various staff) to live in a totally isolated, self-sufficient former monastery on Mount Clothos, to avoid the coming apoc...
The concept--a school for kids supposedly saved by but really rejected by their parents in a dystopian near-future--is right up my alley. I was snookered by the jacket-copy into buying what turned out to be a weak (and incidently extremely transphobic) narrative. I'm returning it to the store.