"Across the whole planet, the bulk of humanity was annihilated within a few years. That's when the Big Switch happened and a few 'lucky' people were taken into the Pod. The living areas are equally divided - Zones Two and Three are derelict, depressing places while Zone One is on the edge of the Pod and has light, clean boulevards and glass-facade buildings.īreathe is the company that has created this alternative world by manufacturing and storing oxygen when oxygen levels on earth started plummeting. The Pod is divided into the Premiums, the well-off people who can afford enough oxygen and are marked with a tattooed circle on their earlobes, and the Auxiliaries, who are fed controlled amounts of oxygen and taxed if they use more. Sarah Crossan's Breathe takes you into such a world. A future controlled by a single entity, a civilisation cowed into following it, a situation in which oxygen is at a premium, and a population that's been divided into classes based on the amount of oxygen they can afford.
There's a mild terror in reading about a very plausible future.
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