I felt an instant connection with Eli and his family, dispite having not read the first book. Only a mad man would so something like this to his family.

Luckily, I got an good idea of what Eli and his family had to endure with his father living underground. I knew that the Fallout is the sequel to the Compound, however it sounded intriguing to me that I wanted to read this book even having not read the first one. I have never read the Compound, the first book to this one. In addition, as Eli adjusts to his new life, he discovers that his father's experiments are still happening. Eli and his twin brother are suppose to run the company but Phil will not give up control. Currently it is run by Phil who was Eli's father's right hand man. Also there is the issue of who runs the company that Eli's father was in charge of prior to his death. Now they have to adjust to life back above ground. Read moreĮli and his family have escaped their underground prision. He's determined to protect his family and do whatever he has to do in order to get back to some semblance of normalcy, but not every wants what he does. Then some strange circumstances start to spook Eli a bit and he becomes convinced that someone is following them. The family moves to a new house, to avoid the media circus surrounding their reappearance, Eli, Lexie and their mom struggles to adapt to a world that has continued to exist for the six years they thought it didn't, and Eddy tries to get over the fact that his family isn't dead. Bodeen ties up all the loose ends in a very clever yet believable way. The author wrote this in response to her many fans who kept asking what happens next. Yanakakis, wasn't dead, but when a sequel didn't follow, I started to doubt myself.I just found The Fallout on the store shelves a couple weeks ago, but apparently it's been out for a while. I was pretty sure that Bodeen intended us to believe that the evil, crazy father, Mr. That was the case for me after reading the Compound, which you definitely have to read BEFORE you read The Fallout. Sometimes a book ends, and you're never really sure how to interpret the ending.

Fallout by Lisa Henry