Linus remains the only narrator though and for all purposes gives the reader no reason to doubt the truth of his diary entries. Soon, others arrive, each drugged and dumped in the elevator - a rough, “hard as nails” junkie, a management consultant in his late 30s, a spoilt, beautiful woman who is a real estate agent, and eventually an elderly, unwell physicist, who describes himself easily as “not only black and bent … but one-eyed to boot.”
In this way, they are able to stave off their hunger but all their other requests for communication are ignored. There are no windows or doors and the only entrance to the bunker is via an elevator that won’t go up if anyone is in it.Īfter Linus arrives, Jenny, a nine-year-old girl who, after adjusting to her new reality, suggests they request some food by sending a note up in the elevator. Linus, as the first to be kidnapped, establishes that there are cameras watching his every move, cameras and microphones that allow his abductor to keep a constant watch on every room of the bunker, even, as the six victims find, the bathroom. Six lives, six personalities that may or may not get along, may or may not manage to cohabit the restricted space.
Six rooms, six people abducted and locked in with no way out and no contact with their abductor (whom the victims assume to be a man). Kevin Brooks’ 2014 Carnegie Medal winning YA novel is a claustrophobic, dark little thing, all teeth and tension and terror. In fact, they’re trapped with each others’ fears. None of them know why they are there or who has put them there, but before long each person will realise that they are trapped not just with strangers but with their own fears as well. THE Bunker Diary is 16-year-old Linus’ diary, written in an underground bunker where he has been trapped along with five strangers.
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