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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Dottie Lee’s In the Mountain, a routine shift inside a secure mountain facility becomes a desperate fight for survival when a catastrophic collapse traps a small group of workers and visitors far below the surface. Forced into the darkness beneath the ruined structure, Paul and Trace help lead the survivors from the wreckage to a temporary camp beside an underground stream, where dwindling supplies and the absence of any rescue force them to keep moving. Their only chance lies in returning to the offices above and pushing farther through buried corridors, broken service routes, and hidden chambers in search of food, water, and a path back to daylight. As each journey into the ruins reveals more of what the collapse has done to the mountain, the question driving the story is whether the group can stay alive long enough to find a way out.
Dottie Lee’s In the Mountain is the kind of survival story that pulls you in immediately because it starts with something that feels normal: people going to work, trusting the place around them, assuming the systems built to protect them will do exactly that. Paul is easy to like and is a natural leader. Everyone pitches in, whether it's Helen, one of the laboratory survivors, keeping time so the days don't blur together, or even Frankie, a boy tasked with helping search for a safer shelter. The author changes course with a traditional antagonist and makes the primary issue the mountain itself, along with the darkness, the hunger, and the exhaustion. In this, the author does a spectacular job of creating visuals, from a firelit camp beside an underground river to a mound of debris where a sliver of hope lay. Well written and immersive, this is a great book for readers who enjoy claustrophobic, textured disaster fiction and survival stories built around a wildly diverse group.
