It's told from the perspective of five year old Jack, a boy who has lived his entire life confined in a 11 by 11-foot cell with his mother. To him, room is the entire world, it is all he has ever known. But to his mother, it is the chamber that she has been held captive for the past seven years, her own personal hell. Every night his mother shuts him away in Wardrobe where he is to remain while the ominous figure known as "Old Nick" comes to visit her.
Since it's told from the perspective of an incredibly naive 5-year-old, the book starts off as somewhat of a mystery that begins to unfold as Jack learns more and more about the reality of his situation.
I kind of found it a bit annoying following the story at first just because it was narrated the way a 5-year-old would actually talk, although you'll come to find that Jack is exceptionally intelligent for his age. However, I got used to the way he talked and quickly stopped noticing it entirely.
This book is similar to the real-life Fritzl case in Amstetten, Austria. Over all, I highly reccomend reading it if you are looking for a bit of new fiction to make your morning commute pass by much more quickly, or just something to keep you up at night until you finish every last page. I haven't read any other of Emma Donoghue's books but I'm certainly looking into them after finishing this.
