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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom TonerBen Oliver|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Loop|rating=43.5|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a book like thishorrific level by machines, I need to imagine that The Loop follows the universe precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has existed before been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the plot has started guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and will continue relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to do so Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after: it needs a strong sense Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of history and futurean infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With this book, the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and series, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in the plot, but even more is happeningvisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, and can Luka ever be free? Why has happened, across he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the Firmament.loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= G X ToddMargaret Atwood|title= DefenderThe Testaments|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction |summary= Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid'We have all become strangers s Tale]]. I don't want to each other and, worse still: enemiestell you too much about the plot because it's a novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The human spirit that once tethered us together has now divided us as surely as any ocean ever could.Testaments'' Defender describes takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a post apocalyptic world in the which destructive voices have entered peoplevan, not knowing what will happen next. It's minds. In told by three short weeksnarrators: Aunt Lydia, these voices have persuaded people to kill their most loved ones and themselves resulting who is secretly writing her memoirs in significant proportions of the worlds population being wiped out. Those who have survivedArdua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with voices and voiceless alikethe expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, are few a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and far betweenits Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472233085</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)1789018870|title= The Core of the SunSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a different worldlong time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, women are bred but this never seemed to be beautifulaffect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, manNatalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-serving olds Allie and submissiveJosh, little more than pretty faces on walking reproductive machines. All the intelligentwent to a private boarding school, independent women are being removed from the gene pool through forced sterilisationbut at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, compelled to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comesLiam and Hannah. To the world Sam's wife, Vanna is one of the formerBriony, an eloi with few rights and was head of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fedproduct research at Nestlé. But she has Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a secret – she is not dim particle physicist - spotted that the rate at all. She is one of which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the clever ones, who is playing dumb to further her causeearth had risen exponentially. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which she It's flunking, enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to perfection), she has drag the small matter head of a drug addiction to feedCERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, and the mystery out of her true-eloi sister's disappearance to solvea family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan Graudin1789550149|title=Blood for BloodPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating=45|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second and final book I first read 1984 in sequence set school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a world where Germany won WW2 long time in the future. It came and Nazi experiments went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humansmaking sure that all he got wrong was the date. Can Yael defeat Crosskey hasn't put a date on the Wehrmacht? Interestingnightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far 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. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, moving and absorbingChristina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The CallLast|author=Peadar o GuilinHanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And Jon Keller is in their quest to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the entire islandworld ends. Nobody can get He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or outif the nearest city has been obliterated. North? South? Doesn't matter any moreShocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. What does matter is ''The Call'He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. At some point during adolescenceOne day, every teenager is transported to when helping the Sidhe realmhotel manager, that grey, colourless land Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to which they were banished thousands of years have been killed beforethe world ended. If they can evade The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in truth about what is possibly the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survivelast community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J Walker1473203287|title=The End of the World Running ClubSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the end discovery of the world as we know it comesafterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Edgar the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and caught up in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, race against Soviet spies and then he and his family eke out dealing with a nightmarish existence mole buried deep in the dark until their supplies run outheart of Summerland. Fortunately they are luckyWhen Rachel White, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around theman ambitious SIS agent, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting becomes suspicious about the earth. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and townspotential rogue agent, turning feral, trying she must decide how far she is willing to find what's left go and how much she is willing to help them risk to surviveuncover the truth. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgar's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another country.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=Children of IcarusGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Caighlan SmithRachel Aaron|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray 'You want me to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten like everyone else and sixteen who will enter spend my life hiding inside the labyrinth, find their way through walls where it to Alyssia's safe, and become angelsbut that's an illusion. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clara, our girlSo long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''s best friend In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, is humanity hides behind the most devout safety of everyone. She knows she is destined high impenetrable walls to become an angelkeep out the enemies outside. Our girlKnown as titans, thoughthese enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, does not want with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to be chosen. In her societykill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silent. And, along with Clara, chosen she is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>has begun to change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Mayo1444944525|title=BlameThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''A small hand in hersMhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show s world has been ravaged by climate change and the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) mass movement of people and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and in a prison – HMP London, no lesssoldiers with guns. Since the death of the EU Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a huge, allplane to Heathrow -conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre for at the crimes of their parents and their parents in turnairport. And during this journey, meaning Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisoned. And even though Ant else and Mattie are you can''legitimately'' in there, due t allow anyone else to their parents' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britainrely on you... Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Concentr884K|author=William SutcliffeClaire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=In a speculative near-future LondonTheo can, there's a new wonder drug he calculates the worth of each person to treat ADHDthe penny. Concentr8 is cheap ''The Company'' own everything and effectiveeveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. So effective that Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the mayor has instituted a programme Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to identify children for earlyavoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking itwithout emotion, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptlycost of the crimes filling his inbox. Riots break outThey are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, led by the unmedicated teensexpense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bird0356510700|title=The HuntEverything About You|author=Heather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=This In the future, your social feed is Britain after the Very Big Crashyour entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. Life It is very differentalso stealing your jobs and, possibly, especially if you live in one loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the lower suburbs under latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the Local Governmentinformation she's authority. Cush lives ll ever need, right in one such suburbfront of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. He works as a detective in The problem is that the personality on the floating Krawczyk building glasses is that of her missing and, though he thinks it himself, presumed dead sister. Freya is pretty good thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at his jobthe very least to reset them to a different personality. His wife Samir doesnBut Freya just can't workdo this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, even though and although sheknows this is just Ruby'd like tos data, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated part of things: booksFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Their son Nim is sixteen and Is it just possible that something more is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nimfeeding this personality than Ruby's obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip MartinWilson_Extinction|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosThe Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. 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 ''Doctor Whoshelters'' had access , goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responsesjob. When Mary Whitehouse found Lincoln's sister is dying from the likes of [[Doctor Who blistering disease and he has no access to the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and healthcare that could save her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to . It's a prison worldmean, where soon-to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled desperate existence, for them both and a hard-done-by populous so they are sat at home doing nothing other than watching first to volunteer for the feeds from Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the executions, the morgues neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit citizens of foresight they might Earthasia will have responded access to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlythe space and abundant food sources Piloria offers.. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yan LiankeCurtis_Water|title=The Four BooksWater & Glass|author=Abi Curtis

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficultSomething has happened, challenging novel something very nasty and not for the feint hearted, or for someone looking for on a page-turner. It really challenges the reader's perceptions and opens up submarine a gateway to an era that pregnant elephant is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells the story one of four protagonists and only a memorable antagonist. The four, found guilty handful of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education in a work camp governed by animals living below the childwaves. With an Orwellian feelWe follow Nerissa Crane, ''The Four Books'' will come to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical geniusvet, he's already at university studying advanced theoryas she remembers recent events, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's looks after the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead animals and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Barnes|title=Nod|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomnia, the idea of falls into a world with no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so real. The thought of having to drag yourself to work after a night with no sleep is bad enough, but what about two nights, or three, or four? Society will crumble if everyone missed five meals in a row, but what would happen if we all missed five nights of sleep? If you end up in the land of Nod, we are all in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Boy 23 isn't in My Place any more. He can't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is aloneintrigue.''

Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clips, shown It is difficult to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Placeproperly review this book without giving too much away. Now, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west the start but I will try to avoid the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingmain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth CalhounBeckett_America|title= Black MoonAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett|rating= 54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do you ever have those nights when you hear every chime ''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Set in the clock22nd century, when you watch the shadows move round novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the room painfully slowly as effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the moon crosses affluent Northern States, and the sky? Thankfully I have very few of thoseSouth, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. I know that Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the thing most likely solution to keep you awake is the worrying about problem of where to place the fact that you're not asleep, and I thousands of Americans who have distraction mechanisms for when I need thembeen made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous HuxleyFeatherstone_Paradise|title= After Many A SummerParadise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of usKerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - grandparents, I suspectmother, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of ''Brave New WorldKerryl. There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the hard but beautiful living associated with it. NaturallyKerryl, on that basis alonethough, he was pigeonis a fiercely bright girl -holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further'she's won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul McAuleySutcliffe_See|title= ConfluenceWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a foundling orphan adopted closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) of constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a small city downriver of gamer got him the mighty, ancient city job of Ys, capital of the man-made world of Confluencedrone pilot. Longing He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to become a soldier and take do it, whatever his late brothermother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's place observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the long-running war against the heretics, the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken resistance organisation known as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, to keep ''The Corps''. Alan calls him out of trouble#K622. Destiny, however, has other plans for But Lex calls himDad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ryan GraudinRoberts_Real|title=The Walled CityReal-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating= 43|genre= TeensDystopian Fiction |summary= In If you had the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry choice would you live your knife. life online? In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs himfuture, lest he this may be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in possible, with the Walled City's brothels, evading development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the roaming street-gangs as she goesonline world is more real than your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. Mei Yee, trapped in a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations The only thing is that with the two-faced Ambassador Osamumost people online, desperately seeks freedom. The three some of us will have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as stay in the officials of Seng Ngoi plan real world to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo WaltonMerbeth_Raid|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRaid|author=Jon A Davidson|title=System: With his face in the sunK S Merbeth|rating=34.5|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, is used to the benefits of A brutal road trip in a life guided by The Systemblighted landscape that pulls no punches. After allWe travel with Clementine, The System knows best. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about to be dissolved and that's not his only concern. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's housebounty hunter, Wallace reflects on how long it's been since he's seen 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 pathworld without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tommy WallachMcdermid_Resistance|title=We All Looked UpResistance: A Race Against Time to Save Mankind|author=Val McDermid

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=PeterIt began so innocently, at a music festival in Northumberland. There were some stomach upsets, Elizabut what do you expect when the weather's bad, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all have plans there's inadequate sanitation and expectations150, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about 000 people out to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows is approaching Earth covering the event and thereshe's a 66% chance filing her copy from the back of a collision food van run by her friends Sam and an extinction level eventLisa. Sam's fussy about the food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and he regularly checks out his suppliers. There are In his business, you just a few weeks before a possiblecan't be too careful. The stomach upsets seem to last for 24 hours, no a likelyan unpleasant 24 hours, end of the worldbut then it seems to be over. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine ChanterDoctorow_Walkaway|title=The WellWalkaway|author=Cory Doctorow|rating=32.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=The subject and title of Catherine Chanter's debut novel Science Fiction is a country idyll of which dreams not always what it seems. You may think that you are made: charmingly ramshacklereading an exciting space adventure about many-tentacled aliens, disarmingly verdant and heaving with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreatbut in fact, it is an oasis from their tired and overwrought City existenceallegory for race relations in modern America. Several months down The best books are able to balance the hidden meaning of the road and book, whilst still entertaining the reader with a great story. The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth reader and Mark are beginning leaving their story to question their good fortune struggle in their ownership of The Wellthe background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Terry_Contagion|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)

|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. It''The Remaining'' started s not a new series of books spoiler if I tell you that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission bad things happen to rebuild America should the undead hit the fanCallie because they do. As an introduction, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a great job in creating the world and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to the mission, but it ended so abruptlyyear ago. ''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later and continues the tale, but does it Her brother Kai is still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt looking for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only her, hopeful that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resourceshe will be found alive and well. Actually in one or two cases the word But Callie isn'problemt alive and well. She' is s been taken to a bit of an understatement. In secretive medical facility on the middle island of this hell Seb Shetland, experimented on, and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survivethen, well, although survival doesnturned into ''something else't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sand|author=Hugh Howey|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building 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, the answer is with consummate ease. Howey has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going to be the difficult second album syndrome. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>