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|title=Fire City
|author=Bali Rai
|reviewer=Jill Murphy
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=496
|publisher=Corgi
|date=August 2012
|isbn=0552556025
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Martha lives with other Unwanted in Fire City, a factory zone which supplies the Wanted and their demon masters. Nobody knows how the Wanted - a shadowy group of the rich and powerful from the world as it used to be - managed to summon the Demons, but all the Unwanted know what it's like to live under their rule. It's - nasty, brutish and short. But Martha isn't the type to give up and she has joined the Resistance, fighting to save the old and infirm from the demons' regular cullings. It's a hopeless task though, and Resistance numbers are shrinking by the day...
... until Jonah arrives in Fire City. He has powerful weapons and can fight like no-one Martha has ever seen. With his help, Martha can finally see a future for the Resistance and for humankind. But Jonah is secretive. What is he hiding and can the Resistance fully trust him?
Criticisms aside, I thoroughly enjoyed ''Fire City''. It was exciting and interesting and offered something a little different in a dystopian genre that is beginning to feel a little bit stale, even for fans.
You might also enjoy [[D4rk Inside by Jeyn Roberts]] - no worldbuilding in this dystopia; it just goes for violence and frenzy. Or how about [[The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry by Benjamin J Myers]] - it has nasties along the lines of the demons in ''Fire City'' and a similar destroyed urban environment. We also have a review of Rai's [[Tales from India by Bali Rai|Tales from India]].
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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction]]
