Kids’ Book Review: Review: The Snow Laundry

In this dystopian world the
administration controls absolutely everything and the population know not to
challenge the status quo.

Besides it could be a lot worse
– many of the country’s homeless are forced to work in the towers with no
possibility or hope of escaping. But while their new home is a prison, they are
fed and warm.

17-year-old Ally is just of
those people enslaved in the towers. Working long hours in the laundry, each
day the same, she is resigned to her fate. 

Though there are many people who
still exist in the tunnels that are barely surviving, Ally believes she has the
better situation; her vote was the price of safety.

Birthday celebrations are in
full swing for the Towers Overseer when Ally’s boyfriend Bon goes missing. One
minute he was laying beside her in bed, the next he is gone, only leaving
behind drawings.

Confused and anxious, Ally
initially thinks Bon has run away. With the recent spate of unrest- explosions,
sabotage and talks of a coup, Bon had been interrogated and beaten up in the
guard’s quest for the truth or a scapegoat. Who could blame Bon if he had run
away?