Wary of each other, Aria and Perry reluctantly join forces to reach their common goal of infiltrating the pods. Aria also wants to get (back) to the pods she believes her mother is in danger there. He was on his way to the pods to try and find his beloved nephew Talon, who had been captured by the Dwellers. Her exposure should have meant her certain death, but she gets rescued by a “savage,” 18-year-old Perry (Peregrine).

In the first book, Aria, 17 and a pod dweller, gets evicted out into the open to prevent the secrets she discovered from being revealed. Both Dwellers and Outsiders have learned to survive in their own unique ways, but now the storms are intensifying, and both groups are in danger. The peril-filled landscape inhabited by the survivors is painted by Rossi with swirling Van-Gogh-like storm funnels roiling the exposed atmosphere. In some future time, a massive solar flare corrodes the earth’s protective magnetic field, allowing violent energy storms called “the Aether” to strike the earth and destroy much of it. Rossi sets up a fascinating sociological confrontation in her post-apocalyptic world between those who live in sheltered pods (“Dwellers”) and those called “Savages” who were left on the perilous Outside. I loved Under the Never Sky (see my review, here) it was one of my “ top ten” reads of the year. Note: There are necessarily spoilers for Book One of this series but not for this second book in the “Under the Never Sky” trilogy.

Through the ever night