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I glanced around, making sure no one was watching, then started down the ladder. It always worried me, leaving the tunnel entrance wide open,but the cover was too heavy for me to slide back once inside the tube. But it was well hidden the long grass, and no one had discover it yet, not in all the years of me sneaking out of the city. Still, I couldn't dawdle. Dropping to the  cement floor  , I gazed around, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the darkness. Putting a hand in my coat pocket, I closed it around my two most prized possessions: a lighter, still half full of fluid, and my  pocket knife. The lighter I'd found on my previous trip into the ruins, and the knife I'd had for years. Both were extremely valuable, and I never went anywhere without them. As usual, the tunnels beneath the city reeked. The old timers , the ones who had been kids in the time before the plague, said that all of the city's waste was once carried away through the pipes under the streets, instead of in buckets emptied into covered holes. If that was true,then it certainly explained the smell.About a foot from where I stood, the ledge dropped away into sludgy black water , trickling lazily down the tunnel. A huge rat nearly the size of some oft alley cats I glimpsed topside,scurried off into the shadows, reminding me why i was here.

This passage introduces the main character as an unregistered, also  one of the humans who the vampires ‘ignore’. This also means Allie and her crew aren't allowed any food or resources from the Inner City , because technically, the Unregistered don’t actually ‘exist’. There is a distinct dystopian feel in the air from the first chapter. There was action, excitement, suspense. Outside the city walls  it's not safe. There is a terror lurking in the shadows and people are scared of it. Also Allie, Her life isn't just about survival, though there is definitely some of that instinct still there, is also about keeping people safe and giving them the best chance she can give them. I loved her character. I could picture her in my mind so clearly, her and her weapon of choice (it's a pretty cool one). She is a girl from which anybody could learn a few tricks.

Allie is strong character and she is just trying to survive. She loves to read, she absolutely despises vampires and the control they have over humans. Allie Live life  on the fringe of society. She's an Unregistered, someone who isn't listed in the system and who doesn't need to have monthly blood draws -- but there's a downside: being Unregistered also means that you're on your own as far as food goes. Therefore, Allie does what she can to survive, even though doing so means joining a gang and eating whatever she can find.

In this passage human would have to go hunt for food. It's like the hunger game. Imagine yourself living in the worse ghetto possible with no lawful system in place, no food, no shelter, nothing. It's a survivors dystopia but then add in cannibals, gangs that rape you and worse but that still isn't the worse! Add in Vamps that often roam the streets at dark and searching the best hiding spots they can find. This is the world that Allie lives in.

Social critique the author take a strong female character over a male, and show all the other girls in the story are much "weaker" (physically, mentally, emotionally.