They Came from Below written by Blake Nelson is the perfect summer read! The science fiction book is filled with love, adventure and excitement which all take place on popular summer place, Cape Cod. The story is about a young girl named Emily and her best friends Reese, all the two girls want this summer is to find some cute boys. Their search is complete when they find two mysterious boys who are just to intriguing to let get away. After the girls meet Dave and Steve their summer becomes a lot more exciting and they witness both remarkable and dangerous experiences. “He picked up the boy, which made more people scream, the people who hadn’t realized the head was hanging off the body backward…Steve turned to Reese and me. He spoke very clearly and with great authority. He said, ‘I’m going to take this boy into the basement. I’m going to shut this door. I need you to keep everyone out for three minutes. Can you do that?’”
They Came from Below is much more than a good exciting book, the story has a powerful underlying meaning about pollution in our environment. These two boys that the girls meet come from the bottom of the ocean, it makes readers questions how much we really even know about the bottom of the ocean. The boys from the bottom of the ocean have been created by the environments pollutions to our seas and oceans. This is a very interesting and exciting book to read the underlying message combined with an easy read allows the story to attract all ages. Blake Nelson has created a suspense filled science fiction book that makes you crave for more!