Ben Vore’s Reviews > Under the Dome > Status Update

“Who better to recruit than a librarian when you’re dealing with a fledgling dictatorship?”

The previous King I read (Hearts in Atlantis) made frequent allusions to The Lord of the Flies, but this book is his real homage to Golding and one of his fullest meditations on societal breakdown. As Big Jim Rennie puts it, “Once the beast is out of its cage, it could bite anyone, anywhere.”