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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] {{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=1Q84: The Complete TrilogyKay Chronister|authortitle=Haruki MurakamiDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy With a world that isbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, without doubt, post-apocalyptic fiction can become 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 ownmasochistic thrill. The first book in the series in particular Whether it is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedicationrobotic takeover, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms world devoid of plot and in which there is water or a significant level of repetition leaves you coldnuclear holocaust, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakamigenre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. As often with Murakami though, it's possible to read this book at 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a number new work of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, he explores the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yangfears that exist for humanity today. It's is a shocking novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive that still manages to call a book of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how the story appearsfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=Bloodtide|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a postthe near-apocalyptic distant future, half in a world on the mists of the myths verge of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city wallsclimate collapse, Val Volson has risen to a position of power. Only King Conor Britain is left standing in his waygreat peril. But Val wants peaceThe British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. He wants unity so What no-one expected was that his people can break out one of the city and prosperKnights of the Round Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Night WitchesJust Looking|author=LJ AdlingtonMatthew Tree

|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation was the summer of science 2035 and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and religion. And, the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the tradition of all authoritarian societies, it is ruthless same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in stamping out traces of Europe these days - that's keeping the Old World cruise ship in port and its belief falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in witcheshis thirties. Rodina is controlled by He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a network known little wordy on subjects such as Aura the difference between 'France' and Aura encourages denunciations'the French'. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners His partner, Helen, who's English and Aura instructs citizens Jewish, keeps him in even the minutiae of their daily livescheck to some extent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=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 mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a 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 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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title=Blinded 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 a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the 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 been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a 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 energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the Lightmodel of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. 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 the loop?|isbn=1912626551}}{{Frontpage|author=Joe KiplingMargaret Atwood|title=The Testaments|rating=34.5

|summary=Some time in Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a near-future Britain, things look very differentsequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. The Sandman virus wiped out most of I don't want to tell you too much about the populationplot because it's a novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The fortunate few live in one of three NeighbourhoodsTestaments'' takes place fifteen years later, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary is Outside - fifteen years after Offred gets into a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnnvan, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchesternot knowing what will happen next. And sheIt's a rich and privileged Alpha. Although told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would likememoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, because then she'd be invited to cooler parties - they are influential a girl brought up in Gilead with the Lightexpectation 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 Neighbourhood's leadershipstore owned by her parents.. 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 Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and guts, but it is also much more difficult he has no access to pull offthe healthcare that could save her. Sarah It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and Savannah Lotz, so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the mother neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, citizens of Earthasia will have managed access to do this perfectlythe space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma PassCurtis_Water|title=ACID|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=The UK is now the IRB - Independent Republic of Britain. It's no longer run by elected politicians, who were completely discredited after a catastrophic financial crash. Instead, the IRB is a police state, led by ACID, a fearsomely authoritarian organisation. Marriage has been abandoned in favour of ''life partnering'' - the state tells you who to live with and whether or not you can have a child. Contact with the outside world is forbidden. Society is divided, with a tiny wealthy elite and a huge mass of an underclass living in poverty and shortage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWater & Glass|author=Gillian Cross|title=After TomorrowAbi 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 Lorders. But hard but beautiful living associated with it's not as easy as that. Is Kyla a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can the end ever justify the means? The more Kyla learns about her historyKerryl, though, the more such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself in...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Siege|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Leah Jackson is miserable and in detention. This is particularly infuriating because the detention means a fiercely bright girl - she's likely to be late for her ''fame and fortune'' interview, one of the few chances kids won a place at YOP schools have to make it into college Cambridge University and is looking forward to get a life worth havinggoing. But Leah's worries are about to become much, much more immediate. Year 9 kids storm into the room. They're armed. And they're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself up into the roofspaceShe loves poetry. But only just. Kids are dead. Teachers are dead. Everyone else is rounded up in the gym. Only Leah and Anton are free, but they are trapped above the ceiling tiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren OliverSutcliffe_See|title=RequiemWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Out Lex lives in the Wildswhat used to be London. Today, Lena it is now trying to cope with the return of her first love Alex along with her feelings for Juliana closed-off, but these relationship issues take a backseat bombed-out area known as life becomes very dangerous for her, ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and everyone elsenobody can go out. Back in PortlandDrones are a constant presence overhead, her friend Hana food is set to marry the man who will become Mayor - short and life is hard. But there's a perfect pairing, surely? While both girls have changed girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a lot since gamer got him the start job of book onedrone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the biggest changes are still to comeresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''.Alan calls him #K622.But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saci LloydRoberts_Real|title=Quantum DropThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam 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 with the Betta. Everyone either works for the Betta or borrows from them. And when Anthony's girlfriend gets on 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-controlledthat with most people online, denunciation environment they left behind. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him and it's threatening some of us will have to ruin the couple's precious, new-found peace. Back stay in the City, Lucas is finding that switching off the System hasn't been the panacea he thought it would be. His people are lost without the rigid controls they had lived under for so long. And real world to make matters worse, the City's young people are disappearingdeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oisin McGannMerbeth_Raid|title=Rat Runners|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nimmo lives in a London of the future. It's not a great place 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 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 to find the case or face Move-Easy's chief goons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRaid|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, a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as ever. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Underground 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 reviewa blighted landscape that pulls no punches. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first book, read the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorry.|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 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 himWe travel with Clementine, 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 Communitybounty hunter, 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 orderworld without heroes or hope. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Sangu Mandanna|title=The Lost Girl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Eva is an echo. Woven at Move on 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]]