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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeKay Chronister|authortitle=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction|summary=All of humankind is living on With a single train. I know British commuters feel world that way at timesis becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, but this is a much different circumstance – post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a train miles longrobotic takeover, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling world devoid of water or a desolately frozen Earthnuclear holocaust, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a culture – a hierarchical society from new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the rich and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside fears that exist for producing food, to the underclass at the endhumanity today. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out of water – is a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignersshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=The One Safe Place|author=Tania Unsworth|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfatherSet in the near-distant future, away from the rest of the world. He knows in a little about it – how the gap between rich and poor is far wider than the world we live in, and how many children now live on the streetverge of climate collapse, scavenging for scraps to say aliveBritain is in great peril. But, he’s never been that concerned. On the farm the life is The British Isles desperately needs a simple one, but they can grow enough food hero (or several) to get by, save the day and they’re happyrescue what little remains. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced to leave his home and venture into What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the city for Round Table would answer the first timecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Warm BodiesJust Looking|author=Isaac MarionMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Warm Bodies is told It was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in an alternating first person point of viewMarseilles, switching back Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and forth between the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they'Rre more common in Europe these days - that'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of s keeping the power of thought than most, cruise ship in port and Juliefalls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about othersFrench journalist in his thirties. 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 in He writes for a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than relatively new paper, the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, right-wing ''MLa Tribune Gauloise'', Rand he's best friend interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and Nora'the French'. His partner, JulieHelen, who's closest friend English and confidant. I especially liked NoraJewish, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing keeps him in check to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as wellsome extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</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=The New Hunger: 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 Prequel 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 model of an infinity loop designed to Warm Bodiesmake 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=Isaac MarionMargaret Atwood|title=The Testaments|rating=4.5

|summary=I normally review Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a book within a day or two of finishing itsequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I couldndon't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with want to tell you too much about the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I wasplot because it's a novel that is entirely plot driven. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read Suffice it to say that ''Warm BodiesThe Testaments''takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. I found something so unique in Isaac MarionIt's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing styleher memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half commander; Daisy, a book to me. So - rebellious teenage girl in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the author's first bookstore owned by her parents. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)Something to Tell You|author=Emmy LaybourneDavid Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Niko Their twins, Alex fifteen-year-olds Allie and six others Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and to find the US military evacuation teamHannah. Dean Sam's wife, Briony, Astrid and three 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 little ones earth had stayed behind - it was too risky risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to take pregnant Astrid into drag the poisoned outside. And when we say poisonedhead of CERN, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different peopleProf Ralph Moyeur, depending on their blood groupout of a family lunch. Nobody knows where Jake is Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=The TrapPoster Boy|author=Andrew FukudaN J Crosskey|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The Trap'' is I first read 1984 in school, in the third and final book in this sequence about late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a world long time in which vampires rule the future. It came and humans are hepers, eaten almost went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to extinctionpass. We left Gene and Sissy Others, along with Epap and DavidI think, were out there already working on the train making sure that delivers hepers from all he got wrong was the Mission to date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the Citynightmare. If she had, destined for I suspect it would not be as far in the Ruler's feast tablefuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Genefuture at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''s missing scientist fatheris already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. But is that all there is to In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it? Where did the Duskers come far from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>is: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=ShadowlarkThe Last|author=Meagan SpoonerHanna Jameson|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Lark escaped Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architectsremote countryside when the world ends. LarkHe has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what's post-apocalyptic world runs going on magic in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and there isnhome. He't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - s not as alone, twenty other people but as also stay and gradually form a resourcesmall community. But One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the architects body of a girl deemed to have made Lark differentbeen killed before the world ended. She can drain The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the magic of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basilcommunity on earth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine FisherFrontpage|ratingisbn=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost 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 that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1473203287|title=Resist (Breathe)Summerland|author=Sarah CrossanHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and the Imagine a world is a ravaged place in which there isn't enough oxygen death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to fully sustain human life. A corporation, BreatheAfter the discovery of the afterlife, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided British Empire has extended its reach into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). OutsideSummerland, drifters struggle to survivethe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. With one alternative to In 1938 the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the Pod Ministryheart of Summerland. When Rachel White, Alinaan ambitious SIS agent, Bea and Quinnbecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilous, journeys she must decide how far she is willing to find the other, Sequoia. And back in the Pod, Ronan go and how much she is rethinking willing to risk to uncover the world he thought he lived in but didn'ttruth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=The Waking World Garrison Girl (The Future KingAttack on Titan)|author=Tom HuddlestonRachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Many tales have been told of You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the boy who became our greatest king. Very few have spoken of the future..walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion.So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''

Aran is In the son dystopian world of one Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the Island's wealthiest Lawsenemies outside. He lives in the underground farmstead of Hawk's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours Known as titans, these enemies are everywhere impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and the Island is under threatregenerative powers. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning Difficult to attack further kill and further inlandinnumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, burning homes and taking slaves. Aran wants to join whilst the fight against walls have always kept them but out, that task has been given begun to his older brother. Aran's future lies in overseeing the farmstead and it's not a future he wants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1444944525|title=Fire & AshThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books in Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewIsle of Arran. So if you havenBut Mhairi't read s world has been ravaged by climate change and the othersmass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]checkpoints and soldiers with guns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Last Man Standing|author=Davide Longo Mhairi has made it across Africa and Silvester Mazzarella|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of onto a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plants, plane to nuclear war, plague, or zombiesHeathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. This is the first to present a complete meltdown She's even made it out of society as the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility than detention centre at the average vampire or zombie plagueairport. The main protagonistAnd during this journey, Leonardo, is not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He Mhairi has no super human strength or abilities of any kind - the only thing learned that gives him the courage you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to continue is his love for his estranged daughter, who suddenly reappears in his life, along with a deeply disturbed stepbrother, early in the crisisrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=More Than This|author=Patrick Ness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the sea, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and alive. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNorth_84K|title=The 10084K|author=Kass MorganClaire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Nuclear war has rendered Theo can, he calculates the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains worth of human society, a colony of people that managed each person to escape the cataclysmpenny. ''The Company'' own everything and everyone, live including handing out their lives on massive city-like spaceshipspunishments for crime. Unfortunately, Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to run outavoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect cost of the remaining populationcrimes filling his inbox. With options running outThey are variables on a spreadsheet, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent crime added to how much the Earth victim would have contributed to test if the planet can once more sustain lifetheir community. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers, but Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this hardened world pay their debt to society, this is a risk worth takingin cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Split SecondEverything About You|author=Sophie McKenzieHeather Child|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat In the future, your social feed is your 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 Charlie are connected long before they meetfulfils your wishes. They were both there 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 the day information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a terrorist bomb decimated personality to guide her. The problem is that the marketplacepersonality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Nat was trying Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is using them or at the bombervery least to reset them to a different personality. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldnBut Freya just can't let do this. Hearing her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charliesister's mother died. Natvoice again is like she's brother was left in a coma. In right there, and although she knows this Britain of the near-futureis just Ruby's data, beset by an endless cycle part of more and more austerityFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worseit can't be this Ruby. But Is it did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=1Q84: The Complete TrilogyExtinction Trials|author=Haruki MurakamiSM Wilson|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy isStorm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, without doubt, an impressive booka continent ruined by overpopulation. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular Space is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, scarce and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot energy and in which there food are rationed. Education is a significant level of repetition leaves you coldminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakamiefficient food sources. As often with Murakami thoughStorm's mother has died and she never knew her father, itso she lives in one of Earthasia's possible overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to read this book at school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a number of levelsjob. On the surface itLincoln's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, sister is dying from the blistering disease and he explores has no access to the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yanghealthcare that could save her. It's a novel where balance mean, desperate existence for them both and vacuums play so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a big partnew mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. It seems counter-intuitive The aim is to call retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a book virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how Earthasia will have access to the story appearsspace and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=BloodtideWater & Glass|author=Melvin BurgessAbi Curtis

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic futureSomething has happened, half in the mists of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods something very nasty 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 on a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to submarine a position pregnant elephant is one of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out only a handful of animals living below the city and prosperwaves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ Adlington|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's We follow Nerissa Crane, a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. Andvet, in the tradition of all authoritarian societiesas she remembers recent events, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of looks after the Old World animals and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by falls into a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae world of their daily livesintrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary It is Outside - a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoesdifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich and privileged Alpha. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited start but I will try to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, avoid the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudosmain ones. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=The Testing America City|author=Joelle CharbonneauChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I'll break from my usual reviewing style 'America City'' tells the story of starting off Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with a plot summary herehis Presidential campaign. Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, for reasons which will shortly become obviouswhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and just start the South, which is frequently ravaged by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian readextreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, with a wonderful narrator, which I'd definitely recommendworking together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Winter DamageParadise Girl|author=Natasha CarthewPhill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The moor farm is high up on a hill and all it had got was out there waiting for her in the dark's a family endeavour - grandparents, a cold rock thingmother, hard as nailsKerryl.There'' But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brother, Trip, in s a trailer on the frozen Cornish moor. Ennormarket town below but Kerryl's mother has been gone for years - after they lost family is concentrated on the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugsthe hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she turned to religion. And left. But now the country is falling to pieces. There are riots. There's no money to be earned. School has closed. Father is getting iller. They're behind on the rent won a place at Cambridge University and eviction is looming. The social are threatening looking forward to take Trip awaygoing. There's nothing else for itShe loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Gordon SmithSutcliffe_See|title=The Fury: The Director's CutWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't Lex lives in what I was expecting at allused to be London. The official press release describes the Fury Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''a zombie book without zombiesThe Strip''. This book has several things Nobody comes in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who and nobody can go about ordinary lives with one exceptionout. When they get near one of these children they Drones are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them aparta constant presence overhead, food is short and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group life is affectedhard. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends But there's a girl he likes and total strangers will give she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up everything to destroy themdo it, whatever his mother thinks. After they have killed themIt's fighting terrorism, they will go back to their ordinary livesafter all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The world will continue unchanged - at least for nowCorps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethany WigginsRoberts_Real|title=StungThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Fiona wakes up confused and disoriented. She's in her bedroom but her bedroom has never looked like If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, thismay be possible, with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. It's filthy. And abandonedEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. Where The only thing is her family? And how has she come that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the real world to have deal with unexpected events – such as a strange tattoo on her hand? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>real town murder.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan WellsMerbeth_Raid|title=Fragments|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I didn't have much hope for this book - the middle book in a series tends to be filler, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliant, I though it was going to be hard to top. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRaid|author=Malorie Blackman|title=Noble ConflictK S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Kaspar believes A brutal road trip in the Alliance with a whole heart. Who wouldn't? In the face of terrorist attacks from the Crusader Insurgency, the Alliance's response is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killedblighted landscape that pulls no punches. They're incapacitated, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in the least violent way possible. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking Kaspar's, you can see how measured and ethical the Alliance's response seems. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=Silver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Silver' has a large ant We travel with silver circuits on the cover, and while there are no actual ants in this bookClementine, the illustration is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpsesbounty hunter, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machines. They possess a swarm intelligence similar to ants. This sounds far fetched but a great deal of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible for scientists to control hundreds world without heroes or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is 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 in the book as well - they just didn't workhope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm going to do this for all books in this series except the first one. Before we begin. If you haven't read the first book in this series, DON'T read this review. 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>0857077643</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lily Herne|title=Deadlands|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I was hesitant to choose this book. I love a good dystopian future book. The problem is, I don't define very many of them as good. I have read far too many zombie books that really don't offer anything different, plenty of blood, gore, and damsels in distress, but not enough character development, or logical thought. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and guts, but it is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah Lotz, the mother and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, have managed to do this perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emma Pass|title=ACID|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=The UK is now the IRB - Independent Republic of 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>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Cross|title=After Tomorrow|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''We were looking at a long line of people trudging down a country road. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugees, I thought automatically. But they weren't. They were people like us.'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in the UK - life has become increasingly difficult for Matt and his family. Money is worthless. Food is the main currency. People who have it are resented and hated. They're named and shamed Move on ''hoarder'' websites and subject 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 the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their food. They just want it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]