This resulted in a lack of depth in the novel. It felt mechanical and stilted, as if the events in the book were being reported, rather than a story told. Perhaps it was intentional and mirrored Trella's desire not to get involved, but the first half of Outside In truly dragged. Unfortunately, the book simply didn’t match up to those expectations. It is reasonable to say, therefore, that I started reading Outside In with pretty high intentions.
I had read Inside Out in February this year and gave it a 5-star review on Blogcritics as I’d found it innovative, imaginative and exciting. Added to that, affairs between Trella and her boyfriend, Riley, are strained as he struggles to understand why she won't stand up and be a decent leader to her followers. Trella's quiet life does not last long, however, as a series of attacks rock Inside (literally), thus putting Inside’s support systems into grave jeopardy. The Travas family are all locked up and Trella hopes to return to a quiet life while the newly formed Committee runs the affairs of Inside. Inside Out reached its climax with the uprising and rebellion lead by a scrub named Trella and Outside In begins after those events. The Travas family and the Population Control Police controlled the population of Inside with brutal and often lethal means and the seeds of discontent amongst the uppers and lowers were sown. Inside was divided into two main population groups: the uppers who controlled the systems and the lowers who performed the manual labour.
Using live sheep and vegetables grown through hydroponics to feed the population, the systems of Inside were self-sustaining and everything was recycled to further perpetuate the system. In Inside Out, it was established that the Insiders were living in a giant structure that was hurtling through space and that Outside did not represent blue skies and green fields but rather Outer Space. Snyder's dystopian, young adult novel Inside Out.
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