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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Waking World (The Future King)Big Happy|author=Tom HuddlestonDavid Chadwick

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''Many tales have been told of the boy who became our greatest king. Very few have spoken of the future...''Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!

Aran is the son of one of the Island's wealthiest Laws. He lives in the underground farmstead of HawkI do love it when I open a book, it's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere and the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning like I expected it to attack further and further inlandbe, burning homes and taking slavesit takes me on a wild ride. Aran wants And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to join the fight against them ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but that task has been given I'll have to his older brotherat least set the scene. AranOnce that's future lies in overseeing the farmstead and it's not a future he wantsdone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry|title=Fire & Ash|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books in the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this review. So if you haven't read the others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB0DB64PYV5|title=Last Man StandingThe White Rose|author=Davide Longo and Silvester MazzarellaDave Baines|rating=34

|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plants, to nuclear war, plagueIn 2033, or zombies. This is the first to present a complete meltdown of society superstorm known as the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility than White Rose devastates the average vampire or zombie plagueNorthern Hemisphere. The main protagonist, Leonardo, is And it's not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities of any kind - the only thing storm that gives him the courage to continue is his love for his estranged daughtergathers, wreaks havoc, who suddenly reappears in his lifethen dissipates. Instead, along it hovers across half the Earth with a deeply disturbed stepbrotherits octopus-like tentacles, early in the crisisnot giving up and never going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=More Than ThisKay Chronister|authortitle=Patrick NessDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''Here With a world that is the boybecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, drowningpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill.'' And Seth does drown. He Whether it is alone; taken by the seaa robotic takeover, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy a world devoid of water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final moments. His death consumes him with or a heavynuclear holocaust, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in this genre is a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and aliveway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move to America, but it ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is now overgrown and devoid a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of human lifethe fears that exist for humanity today. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one daya shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=The 100|author=Kass Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Nuclear war has rendered Set in the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains of human societynear-distant future, in a colony of people that managed to escape the cataclysm, live out their lives world on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run outverge of climate collapse, the Council Britain is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect the remaining populationgreat peril. With options running out, The British Isles desperately needs a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent hero (or several) to save the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain lifeday and rescue what little remains. There is What no telling what -one expected was that one of the Knights of the remaining radiation will do to Round Table would answer the teenagers, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth takingcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Split SecondJust Looking|author=Sophie McKenzieMatthew Tree

|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother It was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle summer of more 2035 and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy|author=Haruki Murakami|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken a cruise ship in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedicationMarseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and if the prospect end of a 1300 page novel in which his marriage - not a huge amount happens two celebrations generally found in terms of plot and in which there is the same sentence by a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, itman! He's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On watching the surface ittornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's a love story set keeping the cruise ship in a slightly fantastical setting port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a little bit of crime thrown French journalist inhis thirties. At He writes for a deeper levelrelatively new paper, he explores the thin lines between imagination right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. Ithe's interesting if a novel where balance little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of this magnitude 'delicatethe French'. His partner, but thatHelen, who's just how the story appearsEnglish and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BloodtideSusi Holliday |authortitle=Melvin BurgessThe Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=Set in A group of strangers gather on a world only private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a book could inhabit brand- half in new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a post-apocalyptic futuregames designer, social media influencer, half in the mists gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the myths of group as they explore the past - island, and each other''Bloodtide'' retells part of s histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the Volsunga saga clock ticks down, these well- Icelandic tales of gods kept secrets are revealed, and heroes and villainsit soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. Civilisation has long abandoned London In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to its criminals uncover the reason for her attendance and its gang wars, going so far as protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to surround its borders with released ''halfmen''a horrific level by machines, genetically manipulated creatures with The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a lust for violence. With the population world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has risen been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a position trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of powerenergy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Only King Conor Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is left standing in his waydespair. But Val wants peaceHis prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. He wants unity so that his people With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break out of the city and prosper. loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night WitchesMargaret Atwood|authortitle=LJ AdlingtonThe Testaments

|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. ItFinally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's a nation of science and rationalityTale]]. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And, in I don't want to tell you too much about the tradition of all authoritarian societies, plot because it is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by 's a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control novel that is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily livesentirely plot driven. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a near-future Britainvan, things look very differentnot knowing what will happen next. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of It's told by three Neighbourhoodsnarrators: Aunt Lydia, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary who is Outside - secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a wasteland populated girl brought up in Gilead with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And expectation she's will marry a commander; Daisy, a rich rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and privileged Alpha. Although its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos.. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=The Testing Something to Tell You|author=Joelle CharbonneauDavid Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ISam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam'll break from my usual reviewing style of starting off with s boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a plot summary hereprivate boarding school, for reasons which will shortly become obviousbut at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and just start by saying Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It'The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian reads enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a wonderful narrator, which I'd definitely recommendplant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Winter DamagePoster Boy|author=Natasha CarthewN J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The moor and all it had got was out there waiting for her I first read 1984 in school, in the dark, late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a cold rock thing, hard as nailslong time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell'' But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has s nightmare had not (quite) come to gopass. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brother Others, TripI think, in a trailer were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the frozen Cornish moordate. Ennor Crosskey hasn's mother has been gone for years - after they lost t put a date on the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugsnightmare. If she had, she turned to religion. And left. But now I suspect it would not be as far in the country is falling to pieces. There future are riots1984 was when I first read Orwell. There's no money to If she had, I suspect it might hardly be earnedin the future at all. School has closed. Father A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is getting illeralready happening. They're behind on the rent and eviction is looming Sadly. The social are threatening to take Trip awayFrighteningly. There's nothing else for In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep itfar from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Gordon Smith0241349176|title=The Fury: The Director's CutLast|author=Hanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I chose The Fury expecting Jon Keller is in a zombie novelhotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. It isn't He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes the Fury as ''a zombie book without zombies''. This book has several things s going on in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivorsnearest city, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy themor if the nearest city has been obliterated. Unlike Shocked, amid the typical zombie bookmass hysteria and exodus, those affected by Jon decides to stay at the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they hotel rather than attempt to get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, the airport and everyone on the planethome. He's not alone, twenty other than people also stay and gradually form a very small group is affectedcommunity. Parents murder their childrenOne day, when helping the hotel manager, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to destroy them. After they have been killed them, they will go back to their ordinary livesbefore the world ended. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the whole world want them dead? Who truth about what is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>possibly the last community on earth.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethany Wiggins1473203287|title=StungSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=34|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Fiona wakes up confused and disoriented. She's Imagine a world in her bedroom which death was no longer something to fear but her bedroom something to aspire to. After the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has never looked like thisextended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. It's filthyIn 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. And abandoned. Where When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is her family? And willing to go and how has much she come is willing to risk to have a strange tattoo on her hand? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>uncover the truth.

{{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Fragments|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I didn't have much hope for this book In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human- like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the middle book in a series tends to be fillerEarth looking for prey, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliantwhilst the walls have always kept them out, I though it was going that has begun to be hard to top. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1444944525|title=Noble ConflictThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Kaspar believes in Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Alliance with a whole heartIsle of Arran. Who wouldnBut Mhairi't? In s world has been ravaged by climate change and the face mass movement of terrorist attacks from the Crusader Insurgencypeople and it is one defined by borders, the Alliance's response is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped checkpoints and soldiers with stun guns . Mhairi has made it across Africa and captured insurgents are not killedonto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. TheyShe're incapacitated, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in s even made it out of the detention centre at the least violent way possibleairport. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking Kaspar'sduring this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can see how measured 't rely on anyone else and ethical the Allianceyou can's response seemst allow anyone else to rely on you... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris WoodingNorth_84K|title=Silver84K|author=Claire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. 'Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits on the cover, The Company'' own everything and while there are no actual ants in this bookeveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the illustration is very well suitedCriminal Audit Office. This books puts a unique twist on Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the ever popular zombie genre. Instead cost of living corpses, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machinesthe crimes filling his inbox. They possess are variables on a swarm intelligence similar to ants. This sounds far fetched but spreadsheet, a great deal simple mathematical equation, the expense of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind - solving the crime added to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known in how much the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It victim would be impossible for scientists have contributed to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - their community. Prisons are uneconomical so the idea is criminals in this world pay their debt to control a few and have these control the rest. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology and there were safeguards society in the book as well - they just didn't workcold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan0356510700|title=ZOM-B AngelsEverything About You|author=Heather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkIn the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A. I'm going . is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to do this for date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all books the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this series except . Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the first onevery least to reset them to a different personality. Before we begin. If you havenBut Freya just can't read the first book in do this series. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, DONand although she knows this is just Ruby'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review s data, part of the first book, read the first book itself, then come back. If you donFreya can'tbelieve that it can be this accurate, youit can'll t be sorrythis Ruby... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily HerneWilson_Extinction|title=DeadlandsThe Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I was hesitant to choose this bookStorm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. I love a good dystopian future bookSpace is scarce and energy and food are rationed. The problem Education isminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, I don't define very many of them as goodefficient food sources. I have read far too many zombie books that really donStorm't offer anything differents mother has died and she never knew her father, plenty so she lives in one of blood, goreEarthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and damsels in distress, but not enough character development, or logical thoughtwrestles hay bales for a job. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and guts, but it Lincoln's sister is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah Lotz, dying from the mother blistering disease and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, have managed he has no access to do this perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emma Pass|title=ACID|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=The UK is now the IRB - Independent Republic of Britainhealthcare that could save her. It's no longer run by elected politicians, who were completely discredited after a catastrophic financial crash. Insteadmean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the IRB is Stipulators' trials for a police state, led by ACID, a fearsomely authoritarian organisation. Marriage has been abandoned in favour of ''life partnering'' - the state tells you who new mission to live with and whether or not you can have a child. Contact with the outside world is forbiddenneighbouring continent of Piloria. Society The aim is divided, with to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a tiny wealthy elite virus to kill them can be engineered and a huge mass the citizens of an underclass living in poverty Earthasia will have access to the space and shortageabundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian CrossCurtis_Water|title=After TomorrowWater & Glass|author=Abi Curtis

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''We were looking at Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a long line pregnant elephant is one of people trudging down only a country roadhandful of animals living below the waves. They were loaded with bundles We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugees, I thought automatically. But they weren't. They were people like usfalls into a world of intrigue.''

After ''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in the UK - life has become increasingly It is difficult for Matt and his family. Money is worthlessto properly review this book without giving too much away. Food is There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the main currency. People who have it are resented and hated. They're named and shamed on ''hoarder'' websites and subject start but I will try to violent raids by those who don't. Matt's family has more food than most because they have an allotment and have set up a trading network. But avoid the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their food. They just want itmain ones. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SJ GriffinBeckett_America|title=The VanguardAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades and ''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her four closest friends do own political beliefs in order to help the best they can ambitious Senator Slaymaker with what they havehis Presidential campaign. Living Set in a post-apocalyptic worldthe 22nd century, they are from the wrong side novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the tracks. Unable to live easy affluent Northern States, and glittering lives like the eliteSouth, they scam and forage which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and hack their way Slaymaker hope to some degree of comfort and still manage change this, working together on the plan they believe to avoid be the - very unpleasant - state security apparatus for solution to the most part. Not that there's much state left for problem of where to place the security apparatus to protectthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri TerryFeatherstone_Paradise|title=FracturedParadise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=As a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain, Kyla was slated - her memories erased and her personality "reset". But Kyla wasn't like Kerryl lives far away from the other Slateds urban twenty- she retained tantalising memories of her previous lifefirst century on a remote Yorkshire farm. ''Fractured'' picks The farm is high up Kylaon a hill and it's story after shea family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. There's lost Ben and just as a mysterious man from her past comes back into her life. It seems that Kylamarket town below but Kerryl's memories represent more than just a failed slating. She has a role to play in family is concentrated on the fight against farm and the Lordershard but beautiful living associated with it. But itKerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's not as easy as that. Is Kyla won a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can the end ever justify the means? The more Kyla learns about her history, the more such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself inplace at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going.She loves poetry..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah MussiSutcliffe_See|title=SiegeWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Leah Jackson is miserable and Lex lives in detentionwhat used to be London. This Today, it is particularly infuriating because the detention means shea closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''s likely to be late for her The Strip''fame . Nobody comes in and fortune'' interviewnobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, one of the few chances kids at YOP schools have to make it into college food is short and to get a life worth havingis hard. But Leahthere's worries are about to become much, much more immediatea girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. Year 9 kids storm into His talent as a gamer got him the roomjob of drone pilot. TheyHe hasn're armed. And theyt bombed anyone yet but he're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself s hyped up into the roofspaceto do it, whatever his mother thinks. But only justIt's fighting terrorism, after all. Kids are dead. Teachers are dead. Everyone else Alan's observation target is rounded a high-profile target - a man high up in the gymresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Only Leah and Anton are free, but they are trapped above the ceiling tilesAlan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren OliverRoberts_Real|title=Requiem|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Out in the Wilds, Lena is now trying to cope with the return of her first love Alex along with her feelings for Julian, but these relationship issues take a backseat as life becomes very dangerous for her, and everyone else. Back in Portland, her friend Hana is set to marry the man who will become Mayor The Real- a perfect pairing, surely? While both girls have changed a lot since the start of book one, the biggest changes are still to come...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTown Murders|author=Saci Lloyd|title=Quantum DropAdam Roberts|rating=53|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We're in London. The London that's left after If you had the next financial crash devastates choice would you live your life for most people right across online? In the world. Money is hard to come byfuture, and most people survive on black market creditsthis may be possible, supplied by the Betta. Everyone either works for the Betta or borrows from them. And when Anthony's girlfriend gets on with the wrong side development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the Betta and is taken out in a gang hit, he must venture into the virtual online world of the Drop if he is to find out who is responsible and how to get justicemore real than your own. But the Drop is a dangerous, dangerous placeEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Disappearances|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Disappearances'' opens a year after Evie and Raffy escaped from the City. They have begun a new life in the Settlement - Raffy farms and Evie sews and this kibbutz-like living only thing is like balm in comparison to the ultra-controlled, denunciation environment they left behind. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him and it's threatening to ruin the couple's precious, new-found peace. Back in the City, Lucas is finding that switching off the System hasn't been the panacea he thought it would be. His with most people are lost without the rigid controls they had lived under for so long. And to make matters worseonline, the City's young people are disappearing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Oisin McGann|title=Rat Runners|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nimmo lives in a London some of the future. It's not a great place us will have to be. Under constant surveillance by the WatchWorld network and its Robocop-style Safe-Guards, even the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention from the authorities. Life is particularly difficult for Nimmo. His parents are stay in prison and he must live below the radar of WatchWorld, amid the city's underground criminals. As you can imagine, Nimmo has skills. And this is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missing. Nimmo, together with sibling grifters Manikin and FX, and teen geek Scope, are real world to find the case or face Move-Easy's chief goons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Fukuda|title=The Prey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them on the boat left by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy and the boys make their way down the river and arrive at the Mission. Food is abundant, the place is peaceful, and the Elders promise them a trip on the next train to Civilisation. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe it. But it's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems and Gene begins to wonder if they haven't simply exchanged one hellhole for another. Although they find out a great deal more about the Scientist - he developed the Origin, with unexpected events – such as a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as everreal town murder. And with the vampires coming ever closer, even to the Mission itself, and the Elders making moves of their own, time is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what to do... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren ShanMerbeth_Raid|title=Zom-B Underground Raid|author=K S Merbeth

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Ok. Before we begin. If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] A brutal road trip in this series, DON'T read this review. It contains spoilersa blighted landscape that pulls no punches. Read my review of the first bookWe travel with Clementine, read the first book itselfa bounty hunter, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorryin a world without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=C J Harper|title=The Disappeared|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jackson is self-confident, motivated and happy. After all, he attends one of Move on the top Learning Communities and has an AEP score of 98.5. He is destined to become an important part of the Leadership some day. You and I might see Jackson as an insufferable, pompous ass but, since he is surrounded by people like him, Jackson doesn't see it like that. But then a seemingly random violent attack leaves Jackson battered and bloody and his best friend Wilson dead. When police return him to the Learning Community, Jackson finds his teachers claim not to recognise him and all his records wiped. Dumped in an Academy - a school purportedly for those with lower AEP scores - Jackson's life becomes a hell. Academy students are known as Specials. They're disciplined by electric shocks distributed by teachers in cages. They're fed slop through nozzles in slots. They're encouraged to fight. And they're kept in line by Reds - nominated Specials who get extra food and pride of place in the violent Academy pecking order. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sangu Mandanna|title=The Lost Girl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Eva is an echo. Woven at the Loom, she is a carbon copy of Amarra, a girl loved by her parents so much that they can't bear the thought of losing her. Should anything ever happen to Amarra, Eva will take her place - live in her home, go to her school, even kiss her boyfriend. So Eva's young life is all about Amarra. She eats the same foods, studies the same subjects, reads the same books, watches the same films. When Amarra gets a tattoo, so must Eva. The Weavers impose many rules and if Eva breaks even one of them, her life is forfeit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849416176</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeff Norton|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)|rating=4|genre=Confident [[Newest Emerging Readers|summary=Jonah's father died in the battle for control of the Metasphere. He was a Guardian - a terrorist or freedom fighter, depending how you see things - and he had infiltrated himself into a position of trust with the Millenials, the group supporting the billionaire inventor who created and controlled an online world in which people living in a post peak-oil and devasted Earth spend most of their time. But before he died, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded to the Metasphere as an avatar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Having escaped the horrors of Gameland at the dreadful cost of losing Tom, Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong must journey through the Rot & Ruin without his warrior smarts. They're in search of the jet they saw in the sky months ago. They hope to find hope, some remains of a civilisation lost after First Night, when the zombie virus spread through the population like wildfire. When life as it was ceased to be. When the undead started to walk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kat Zhang|title=What's Left Of Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Addie and Eva are 15 year olds living somewhere in America. They have a mother, a father and a younger brother. But Addie and Eva are not sisters, or twins, in the usual sense. They are two minds who share one body, and they are in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeyn Roberts|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left Aries, Michael, Clementine and Mason in a world they can barely recognise. After a series of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that the normal survivors called Baggers. There are few normal people left and they must hide in ruined cities, avoiding death at the hands of the Baggers. And in ''Rage Within'', the battle for survival is about to get even tougher. The Baggers are organising themselves, clearing the streets of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>}}Reviews]]