Review: Downsiders

Title: Downsiders
Author: Neal Shusterman
Category: Fiction, Children's
Rating: 2.5/5
Summary: A boy from a secret underground world called the Downside breaks the rules of his world and sneaks above-ground.

Review: After the first 100 pages, I still wasn't into this book, so I skimmed the rest of the way just to get an idea of what happened in the plot. The problem for me was that neither of the main characters seemed to have a terribly important problem they needed to solve. The boy character, Talon, has a sick little sister at one point, but she gets better pretty fast.

The setting was intriguing, but I just couldn't connect with the characters.