Book Review: The Bunker vol #1

Book: The Bunker volume #1 (issues #1-4) by Joshua Hale Fialkov with illustrations by Joe Infurnari

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: August 19, 2014

Description:

On their way to bury a time capsule, five friends — Grady, Heidi, Natasha, Daniel, and Billy — uncover a metal bunker buried deep in the woods. Inside, they discover letters addressed to each of them... from their future selves!

Told they will destroy the world in the very near future, the friends find themselves, over the next few days, growing further and further apart.

Though they've been warned against making the wrong choices, how do they know what the right ones are?

Can the future really be changed, or will an even darker fate engulf the world?


Rating: 4 stars

Review:

I will admit this is one of those mind trippy books that will have you wondering what to believe.

The story follows five friends who take a trip into the woods to bury a time capsule but when they start digging they inadvertently find a bunker. But that's not the strange part, inside were letters addressed to four out of the five friends. Still not strange enough how about that each of those letters were written from their future selves telling them that the world is going to end and one of them is to blame.

I found the characters to not be that likeable but I figure that's part of the story because they're all jerks but somehow they have to find a way to change the future and maybe even fixed their messed up friendship along the way.

The trippy thing is I'm not sure if they should believe what they're reading because I feel like there is more going on and as the story continues I'm sure they will have to figure out who to trust and how to go about changing the world.

This was better than I expected.