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Secondly, it's just shallow. Yes, there are some decent action sequences - it reads as if it's been written with a film in mind, in many ways. (Indeed, having just looked at Robinson's website, he says that his first attempts at writing were film screenplays.) In fairness, if it were to be filmed, due to an interesting plot and a few exciting scenes it might well work better on screen than it does on the page. Where it falls down as a book, though, is that it never really rises above the basic plot of the teens trying to escape and the adults trying to stop them.
The best fiction out there today for teens (and, for that matter, older primary school children) raises questions. Superb series like [[Department 19 by Will Hill]], [[GONE Gone by Michael Grant]], and [[Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy by Andy Briggs]], to name but three, combine superb action with thought-provoking moments and make you consider themes like right and wrong, power, and morality. In fairness to Robinson, there's one moment in ''Nowhere'' which raises these questions, but it's so close to the end that I'd lost most of my interest by this point. While it will hopefully be explored more in the rest of the trilogy, I'm not sure I'll stick around to read the other two books.
Oh, and annoyingly, it's yet another book that suffers from an incredibly weak ending which has barely any sense of resolution.
Passable if you really must read a conspiracy theory thriller, but there's just so many better books out there that I can't recommend it.
As mentioned above, [[Department 19 by Will Hill]], [[GONE Gone by Michael Grant]], and [[Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy by Andy Briggs]] are all fantastic thrillers which should appeal to the target audience of this book.
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