Suzanne Collins is a wonderful writer who has achieved the height of popularity in a short span of time due to her creativity and innovative piece of writing. In 2003 she released her first novel from the five part series named The Underland Chronicles. The five books under this series are the first book Gregor the Overlander, Second book Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Third book of the series Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, fourth book Gregor the Marks of Secret and the last of the series Gregor and the Code of Claw. The five book series was published from the period of 2003 to 2007. It is a fantasy novel based on the boy’s adventures in the “Underland”. The series covered a lot of topics and aspects such as military intelligence, warfare, human reaction with other creatures etc.
The story is about a young boy named Gregor who ends up falling into an opening while following his younger sister’s steps in the laundry room of his apartment in New York. He finds a new world beneath and discovers a city Underland. The place is strange and new for him and he finds it interesting yet gloomy as he found out that here humans live with other creatures like cockroaches, giant rats and bats. The life in the Underland exists without the presence of sun and that’s quite weird for Gregor. Why Gergor ended up falling down in the Underland? Is there a special reason or just a coincidence? Who made this city? What are the risks and dangers he is to face while being in the Underland? All these questions will be answered; you just need to grab your copy of the novel series The Underland Chronicles and enjoy the adventurous ride.
The writer Suzanne Collins was inspired by Alice in the Wonderland when she thought of writing The Underland Chronicles but being on a more realistic side she made the little boy land not in a fairytale world but an entirely different place that is the Underland. The initiative of an Underland is an idea of a stonemason of Sandwich came to New York with a group of people when he saw this Underland in his dream. He had this believe that one day the Earth will come to an end so there is a need to build a city underneath the ground. It took 50 years of hard work to build this city and to seal the gates to the Overland. Deliberately 5 openings were left unsealed to have a connection with the land above.
The land that was chosen by Sandwich and his 800 group members was occupied by giant star nosed moles (Diggers) who were not ready to share their land. The water supply was poisoned in order to defeat the Diggers and since then the other living creatures who lived in the Underland named humans as Killers.
The Underland Chronicles is a river of adventure that flows through the five books of the action packed series. The story that continues from one book to another is amazingly moved from one book to another. You as a reader will enjoy the smooth flow and the simple way in which the complicated things are handled in The Underland of Chronicles books. If you love adventures then this thrilling and electrifying series of The Underland Chronicles is the correct choice!