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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous Huxley1836284683|title= After Many A SummerThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of usWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I suspectexpected it to be, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''Brave New WorldThe Big Happy''. Naturally, on that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'Sci-fi - must check out further'll have to at least set the scene. Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul McAuleyB0DB64PYV5|title= ConfluenceThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating= 54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama is In 2033, a foundling orphan adopted superstorm known as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) of a small city downriver of the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital of White Rose devastates the man-made world of ConfluenceNorthern Hemisphere. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brotherAnd it's place in the long-running war against the hereticsnot a storm that gathers, the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young agewreaks havoc, to keep him out of troublethen dissipates. DestinyInstead, howeverit hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, has other plans for himnot giving up and never going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinKay Chronister|title=The Walled CityDesert Creatures

|summary=Urged on by her brother ApolloWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republicpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Filling Whether it with an assortments is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of adults collected from throughout timewater or a nuclear holocaust, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom this genre is a disguised Apollo)way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Whilst ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to be a fly in the ointment…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon A DavidsonThomas D Lee|title=System: With his face in the sunPerilous Times|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, ''Hate is used to the benefits path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a life guided by The Systemworld on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. After all, The System knows best. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to British Isles desperately needs a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about hero (or several) to be dissolved save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that's not his only concern. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's house, Wallace reflects on how long it's been since he's seen one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the old man. Wallace decides to drop in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected pathcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tommy WallachB0BQXSYYTF|title=We All Looked UpJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=The subject It was the summer of 2035 and title on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of Catherine Chanterhis marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's debut novel is a country idyll of which dreams are made: charmingly ramshackle, disarmingly verdant watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and heaving falls into conversation with fertile acreageJean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreatHe writes for a relatively new paper, an oasis from their tired the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and overwrought City existence. Several months down he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the road difference between 'France' and with 'the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic droughtFrench'. His partner, Helen, Ruth who's English and Mark are beginning Jewish, keeps him in check to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Wellsome extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerrySusi Holliday |title=Mind GamesThe Last Resort |rating=43.5 |genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Luna A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, 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 Refusermystery. In her worldWe follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a Refuser dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a kind gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and 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 cross between a conscientious objector and Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a Ludditehorrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In this post WW3 Britaina world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, almost everyone he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a brain implant which they use trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to spend most his memories and relentlessly drained of their lives in energy through a virtual environmentgruelling daily torture ritual. People don't just play Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in the vast array place of games: they work, they learn, they dateexecution] after Delay he is in despair. Even hacking His prison is encouragedbased on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. And those who opt out, like Luna, are shut out With the only glimmers of hope being the best careers rumours of rebellion outside and viewed with suspicion.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 the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HoneywellMargaret Atwood|title=The ShipTestaments|rating=4.5

|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this is not the London of todayFinally! Almost forty years on, or any other daywe have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – and the world could only focus on survival. Now the Nazareth Act is in force and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you I don't produce want to tell you too much about the plot because it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Influx|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge 's a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the front. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir to Michael Crichtonis entirely plot driven. To compare your work with one of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going Suffice it to be easy and time say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after timeOffred gets into a van, Suarez fell shortnot knowing what will happen next. That It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is until Influxsecretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a book that finally puts Suarez girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the same illustrious company as Crichtonstore owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson Walker1789018870|title=The Age of MiraclesSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books s boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that I never the families got the time to read on its first go around. I Bert'm not sure how I managed thats wife, Natalia, but I didwas Russian and seriously rich. Anyway Their twins, it got debut author Thompson Walker fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a seven figure deal after a bidding war private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and it has dystopian themesHannah. Sam's wife, Briony, so it is right up my alley and not the sort was head of thing I'd usually missproduct research at Nestlé. And so Life was good for all eight of them, I was happy until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for a YA market Sam and even happier that they decided Bert to send me drag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a copyplant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peyton Marshall 1789550149|title=Goodhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times in history when governments have thought they knew who the criminal underclass was. This did not lead to anything good under the Nazis and the same can be said of the Goodhouse regime. If we knew that certain genetics led to an increased chance of criminality, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be a good thing? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPoster Boy|author=Leanne Hall|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Remaining: Aftermath|author=D J Molles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=A week is a long time in politics, but it feels infinitely longer in a zombie apocalypse. ''The Remaining'' started a new series of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit the fan. As an introduction, [[The Remaining by D N J Molles|The Remaining]] did a great job in creating the world and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to the mission, but it ended so abruptly. ''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later and continues the tale, but does it still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The city has been rebuilt for warI first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. The waves Some of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastatingus may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Not only Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that but also all he got wrong was the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of date. Crosskey hasn't put a problem date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as a resourcefar in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. Actually A lot of what happens in one or two cases the word 'problem'Poster Boy'' is a bit of an understatementalready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and surviveblurb, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to go turn its fiction into the enemy's hive and bring the battle reality". My only response to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=SandThe Last|author=Hugh HoweyHanna Jameson

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building Jon Keller is in science fiction is easier said than done. How can you design a completely foreign place and explain it all to your reader, whilst still writing a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howey, hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the answer is with consummate easeworld ends. Howey He has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under no idea if his belt and following this up was always family is alive, he has no idea what's going to be on in the nearest city, or if the difficult second album syndromenearest city has been obliterated. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’Shocked, his new novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In amid the futuremass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the difference between West and East are greater hotel rather than ever. Europe has evolved into attempt to get to the (British) Isles airport and the (E)Uhome. He's not alone, linked by twenty other people also stay and gradually form a bridgesmall community. One day, when helping the hotel manager, and immigrants risk everything to pass from Jon finds the third world body of the latter a girl deemed to have been killed before the first world of the formerended. Mila has made it across, but The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the danger truth about what is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises possibly the real price of freedomlast community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Mutant CitySummerland|author=Steve FeaseyHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After a devastating chemical warthe discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the world Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away caught up in underground bunkers a race against Soviet spies and, when they re-emerged, built six cities dealing with a mole buried deep in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfortheart of Summerland. But outside When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the city wallspotential rogue agent, everything she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is very differentwilling to risk to uncover the truth. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=RiotGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Sarah MussiRachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=It is 2018 ''You want me to be like everyone else and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated spend my life hiding inside the countrywalls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. Banks So long as there are going under. Unemployment titans out there… no one is rising. The cost safe'' In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of welfare is soaringhigh impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Prisons Known as titans, these enemies are overflowingimpossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. And Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the population is still rising. Something walls have always kept them out, that has begun to give. change…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The solution? Forced sterilisation Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of employmentpeople and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. The programme Mhairi has started with prisoners but the legislation made it across Africa and onto a plane to roll Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out across of the detention centre at the population is about airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to go through parliamentrely on you.. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=The Giver84K|author=Lois LowryClaire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rulesTheo can, so many rules, which are adhered he calculates the worth of each person to, the penny. ''The Company'' own everything and which allow society to live without paineveryone, suffering or conflictincluding handing out punishments for crime. These rules are rarely questioned, merely acceptedTheo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. When they turn twelveDoing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by the Eldershe calculates, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudeswithout emotion, and whether they are assigned to be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver cost of the elderly, a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares and provides food, they crimes filling his inbox. They are usually variables on a good match for the person. At the assignment ceremonyspreadsheet, Jonas is not given a typical rolesimple mathematical equation, however. He is selected to be the Receiver expense of Memory, a position given out only once every few generations. He will receive and store all solving the memories of crime added to how much the past which the rest of society victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are no longer burdened with, but which may be needed from time uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to time to aid society in decision making and law enforcementcold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=GoddessEverything About You|author=Laura PowellHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After an economic collapseIn the future, Britain your social feed is close your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to breaking pointdate with your friends and fulfils your wishes. Citizens are going hungry It is also stealing your jobs and there are riots, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. But Aura Freya is shielded from it unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her position as a handmaiden in . The problem is that the personality on the Cult glasses is that of Artemisher missing and presumed dead sister. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere Freya is thrown and are followed unsettled by millions - this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the cult sits side by side with Christianity as very least to reset them to a mainstream religiondifferent personality. AuraBut Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's thoughts arendata, part of Freya can't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - theybelieve that it can be this accurate, it can're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retirest be this Ruby. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=ZOM-B MissionThe Extinction Trials|author=Darren ShanSM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkStorm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the series so farhealthcare that could save her. If you donIt't want anys a mean, then run along desperate existence for them both and read our review so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]space and abundant food sources Piloria offers.. Otherwise, read this review at your own risk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersWater & Glass|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteAbi Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living Something has happened, something very nasty and on a single train. Oh sorry, as this submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the sequel, make that two trainswaves. Launched on the same tracks as the original SnowpiercerWe follow Nerissa Crane, but clearly at a slight removevet, was a second mile-long behemoth of a trainas she remembers recent events, designed with looks after the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling animals and falls into a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once moreof intrigue. But the high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has not put paid  It is difficult to one aspect of society – and in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first properly review this book]] – religionwithout giving too much away. Some people are fearing There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into start but I will try to avoid the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecraftmain ones. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) |authorisbn=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster family, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if she stepped out of line. But that was some time ago. Since then, some of Kyla's memories have resurfaced and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-the-mill Slated. Used as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeckett_America|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeAmerica City|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteChris Beckett

|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All ''America City'' tells the story of humankind is living on a single trainHolly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time Set in the distant future22nd century, the planet can recover from novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the cataclysm that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to effects of climate change have a culture – a hierarchical society from created deep divisions between the rich affluent Northern States, and leisured classes near the frontSouth, through the orgiastswhich is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, past working together on the useful carriages set aside for producing food, plan they believe to be the underclass at solution to the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out problem of water – a man from where to place the rear thousands of Americans who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignershave been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=The One Safe PlaceParadise Girl|author=Tania UnsworthPhill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Devin Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm with his grandfather. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, away from the rest of the worldKerryl. He knows There's a little about it – how the gap between rich and poor market town below but Kerryl's family is far wider than concentrated on the world we live in, farm and how many children now live on the streethard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, scavenging for scraps to say alive. Butthough, he’s never been that concerned. On the farm the life is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get by, fiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and they’re happy. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced looking forward to leave his home and venture into the city for the first timegoing. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=Warm BodiesWe See Everything|author=Isaac MarionWilliam Sutcliffe

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is told in an alternating first person point of viewa closed-off, switching back and forth between bombed-out area known as ''RThe Strip'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human Nobody comes in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itselfnobody can go out. Two other characters Drones are important to this storylinea constant presence overhead, ''M'', R's best friend food is short and Nora, Julielife is hard. But there's closest friend a girl he likes and confidantshe can make him forget almost anything. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has Alan spends all his redeeming points time watching The Strip. His talent as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two gamer got him the job of finishing itdrone pilot. I couldnHe hasn't with this one. I loved this book, bombed anyone yet but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marionhe's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear hyped up to rate do it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre endingwhatever his mother thinks. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first bookfighting terrorism, after all. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isnAlan't after all the end s observation target is a high-profile target - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy Laybourne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split a man high up at in the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Niko, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find the US military evacuation team. Dean, Astrid and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outside. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Trap|author=Andrew Fukuda|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=resistance organisation known as ''The TrapCorps'' is the third and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinction. We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast tableAlan calls him #K622. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist fatherBut Lex calls him Dad. But is that all there is to it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=ShadowlarkThe Real-Town Murders|author=Meagan SpoonerAdam Roberts|rating=43|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Lark escaped If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, with the city development of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architectsfully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it aboutEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. So Renewables - The only thing is that with most people whose magic online, some of us will replenish after it is drained - are have to stay in demand - not as people but the real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She can drain the magic of others and use it herselfreal town murder. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basil. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Raid|author=Catherine FisherK S Merbeth

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost A brutal road trip in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is a blighted landscape that he's trying to dopulls no punches. The ChronoptikaWe travel with Clementine, a mirror made of black obsidian and bounty hunter, in a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from itworld without heroes or hope. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

Aran is Move on the son of one of the Island's wealthiest Laws. He lives in the underground farmstead of Hawk'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 to attack further and further inland, burning homes and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against them but that task has been given to his older brother. Aran's future lies in overseeing the farmstead and it's not a future he wants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]