A Reading Machine

I first read the synopsis for this a few years ago and the concept immediately caught my attention. Set in an unknown but clearly dystopian future, we follow five kids in their early teens who are suddenly dumped alone on a never ending room of stairs. There is a machine that spits out food but only when the group perform certain actions which they have to determine by trial and error. When the machine starts rewarding violence of the physical and psychological types the kids

Easily on of the best books I've read this year. Let's get into it. The Nameless and the Deep Kings have been locked in a long struggle the makes the lives and struggles of humans comparable to ants in a children’s playground. Individually the Nameless are no match for a King but together they have a chance at victory and thanks to the invention and sacrifice of one of their own a stalemate has developed. Nall’s Engine is a weapon of mass destruction that separates the Republ