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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] {{adsense2}}__NOTOC__  {{newreview|title=Bloodtide|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists of the myths 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 walls, Val Volson has risen to a position 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 of the city and prosper. Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1836284683|title=Night WitchesThe Big Happy|author=LJ AdlingtonDavid Chadwick

|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And, in the tradition of all authoritarian societies, it Well! This is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}}murder mystery unlike any other!

{{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in I do love it when I open a near-future Britainbook, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoodsit's nothing like I expected it to be, each protected by the Boundaryand it takes me on a wild ride. Beyond the Boundary And that is Outside - a wasteland populated just what happened with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich and privileged Alpha'The Big Happy''. Although her parents arenI don't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then shewant to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'd be invited ll have to cooler parties - they are influential in at least set the Light, the Neighbourhoodscene. Once that's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothesdone, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudosI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=The Testing White Rose|author=Joelle CharbonneauDave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=IIn 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it'll break from my usual reviewing style of starting off with s not a plot summary herestorm that gathers, for reasons which will shortly become obviouswreaks havoc, and just start by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian readthen dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the Earth with a wonderful narratorits octopus-like tentacles, which I'd definitely recommendnot giving up and never going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Winter DamageKay Chronister|authortitle=Natasha CarthewDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''The moor and all With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it had got was out there waiting for her in the darkis a robotic takeover, a cold rock thingworld devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, hard as nailsthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears.'' But Ennor doesnDesert Creatures''t see another choice. She has to go. The fourteen-yearby Kay Chronister is a new work of post-old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brother, Trip, in a trailer on apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the frozen Cornish moor. Ennor's mother has been gone fears that exist for years - after they lost the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugs, she turned to religion. And lefthumanity today. But now the country It 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 and eviction is looming. The social are threatening a shocking novel that still manages to take Trip away. There's nothing else for itfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=The Fury: The Director's Cut|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes Set in the Fury as ''near-distant future, in a zombie book without zombies''. This book has several things in common with world on the zombie genre; a group verge of survivorsclimate collapse, Britain is in this case all children struggling to survive against great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a world that wants hero (or several) to destroy them. Unlike save the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living deadday and rescue what little remains. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with What no-one exception. When they get near expected was that one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for nowKnights of the Round Table would answer the call. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethany WigginsB0BQXSYYTF|title=StungJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=34.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Fiona wakes up confused It was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and disoriented. Shethe end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in her bedroom but her bedroom has never looked like thishis thirties. It He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's filthyinteresting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. And abandoned His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent. Where is her family? And how has she come to have a strange tattoo on her hand? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsSusi Holliday |title=FragmentsThe Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=I didnA 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't s histories and it becomes clear that they all have much hope 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 this book - her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the middle book in aftermath of a series tends Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to be fillera horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and as [Have Nots where Alts [Partials by Dan Wells|Partialscyborgs]] was so brillianthave power over Regulars, I though it was going he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to be hard a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to tophis memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. I was very wrongDoomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. This book His prison is mind-blowingbased on the model 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanMargaret Atwood|title=Noble ConflictThe Testaments|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Kaspar believes in the Alliance with Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a whole heartsequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. Who wouldnI don't? In want to tell you too much about the face of terrorist attacks from the Crusader Insurgency, the Allianceplot because it's response a novel that is non-fatalentirely plot driven. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not killedknowing what will happen next. TheyIt're incapacitateds told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the least violent way possible. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking Kaspar'sexpectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, you can see how measured a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and ethical its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the Alliance's response seemsstore owned by her parents... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Wooding1789018870|title=Silver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits on the cover, and while there are no actual ants in this book, the illustration is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpses, 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 or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is Something 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 work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTell You|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B AngelsDavid Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. I Bert was Sam'm going s boss at CERN, but this never seemed to do this for all books in this series except affect the way that the first onefamilies got on. Before we begin Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. If you haven Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam't read the first book in this seriess two children, DONLiam and Hannah. Sam'T read this reviews wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. It contains spoilers. Read my review Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the first book, read rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the first book itself, then come backearth had risen exponentially. If you don It'ts enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, you'll be sorryProf Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily Herne1789550149|title=DeadlandsPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I was hesitant to choose this book. I love first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a good dystopian long time in the future book. The problem is, I don't define very many It came and went quickly enough. Some of them as good. I us may have read far too many zombie books breathed a sigh of relief that really donOrwell't offer anything different, plenty of blood, gore, and damsels in distress, but s nightmare had not enough character development, or logical thought(quite) come to pass. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and gutsOthers, but it is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah LotzI think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the mother and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, have managed to do this perfectlydate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emma Pass|title=ACID|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=The UK is now Crosskey hasn't put a date on the IRB - Independent Republic of Britainnightmare. It's no longer run by elected politicians If she had, who were completely discredited after a catastrophic financial crashI suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. Instead If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the IRB is a police state, led by ACID, a fearsomely authoritarian organisationfuture at all. Marriage has been abandoned A lot of what happens in favour of ''life partneringPoster Boy'' - is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the state tells you blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to live with and whether or not you can have a childturn its fiction into reality". Contact with the outside world My only response to that 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>: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Cross0241349176|title=After TomorrowThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''We were looking at Jon Keller is in a long line of people trudging down a country roadhotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. RefugeesHe has no idea if his family is alive, I thought automatically. But they werenhe has no idea what'ts going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. They were people like us.'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - Shocked, amid the collapse of all mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the major banks in hotel rather than attempt to get to the UK - life has become increasingly difficult for Matt airport and his familyhome. Money is worthlessHe's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. Food is One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the main currency. People who body of a girl deemed to have it are resented and hatedbeen killed before the world ended. They're named and shamed The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on ''hoarder'' websites and subject to violent raids by those who don't. Mattfinding this girl's family has more food than most because they have an allotment killer and have set up a trading network. But finding the raiders don't care truth about ''how'' they got their food. They just want itwhat is possibly the last community on earth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SJ Griffin1473203287|title=The VanguardSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades and her four closest friends do Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the best they can with what they haverecently deceased. Living In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a post-apocalyptic world, they are from race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the wrong side heart of the tracksSummerland. Unable to live easy and glittering lives like When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the elitepotential rogue agent, they scam she must decide how far she is willing to go and forage and hack their way how much she is willing to some degree of comfort and still manage risk to avoid the - very unpleasant - state security apparatus for uncover the most part. Not that there's much state left for the security apparatus to protecttruth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Fractured|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As a teen criminal in Lorder-run BritainIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, Kyla was slated - her memories erased and her personality "reset". But Kyla wasn't like humanity hides behind the other Slateds - she retained tantalising memories safety of her previous life. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after she's lost Ben and just as a mysterious man from her past comes back into her life. It seems that Kyla's memories represent more than just a failed slating. She has a role high impenetrable walls to play in the fight against keep out the Lordersenemies outside. But it's not Known as easy as thattitans, these enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Is Kyla a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the end ever justify Earth looking for prey, and whilst the means? The more Kyla learns about her historywalls have always kept them out, the more such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself in...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Mussi1444944525|title=SiegeThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Leah Jackson Mhairi Anne Bain is miserable fourteen years old and in detention. This is particularly infuriating because on her way home to the detention means sheIsle of Arran. But Mhairi's likely world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be late said for her ''fame Muma and fortunePapa. She'' interview, one s even made it out of the few chances kids detention centre at YOP schools have to make it into college and to get a life worth havingthe airport. But Leah's worries are about to become muchAnd during this journey, much more immediate. Year 9 kids storm into the room. TheyMhairi has learned that you can're armed. And theyt rely on anyone else and you can're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself up into the roofspace. But only just. Kids are dead. Teachers are deadt allow anyone else to rely on you. 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 OliverNorth_84K|title=Requiem84K|author=Claire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Out in Theo can, he calculates the Wilds, Lena is now trying worth of each person to cope with the return of her first love Alex along with her feelings penny. ''The Company'' own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for Julian, but these relationship issues take a backseat as crime. Theo sleepwalks through life becomes very dangerous keeping his head down whilst working for herthe Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, and everyone else. Back in Portlandwithout emotion, her friend Hana is set to marry the man who will become Mayor - cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a perfect pairingspreadsheet, surely? While both girls have changed a lot since simple mathematical equation, the start expense of book one, solving the crime added to how much the biggest changes victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are still uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to come.society in cold hard cash..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=Quantum Drop|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We're in London. The London that's left after the next financial crash devastates life for most people right across the world. Money is hard to come by, and most people survive on black market credits, supplied by the Betta. Everyone either works for the Betta or borrows from them. And when Anthony's girlfriend gets on the wrong side of the Betta and is taken out in a gang hit, he must venture into the virtual world of the Drop if he is to find out who is responsible and how to get justice. But the Drop is a dangerous, dangerous place...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Malley0356510700|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 is like balm in comparison to the ultra-controlled, denunciation environment they left behind. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him and it's threatening to ruin the couple's precious, new-found peace. Back in the City, Lucas is finding that switching off the System hasn't been the panacea he thought it would be. His people are lost without the rigid controls they had lived under for so long. And to make matters worse, the City's young people are disappearing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEverything About You|author=Oisin McGann|title=Rat RunnersHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Nimmo lives in a London of In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It's not a great place fills your fridge, it keeps up to bedate with your friends and fulfils your wishes. Under constant surveillance by the WatchWorld network It is also stealing your jobs and its Robocop-style Safe-Guards, even possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention from latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the authoritiesinformation she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. Life The problem is that the personality on the glasses is particularly difficult for Nimmothat of her missing and presumed dead sister. His parents are in prison Freya is thrown and he must live below unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the radar of WatchWorld, amid the city's underground criminalsvery least to reset them to a different personality. As you But Freya just can imagine, Nimmo has skills't do this. And this Hearing her sister's voice again is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missing. Nimmolike she's right there, together with sibling grifters Manikin and FXalthough she knows this is just Ruby's data, and teen geek Scopepart of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, are to find the case or face Move-Easyit can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's chief goons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew FukudaWilson_Extinction|title=The PreyExtinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them Storm and Lincoln live on the boat left Earthasia, a continent ruined by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy overpopulation. Space is scarce and the boys make their way down the river energy and arrive at the Missionfood are rationed. Food Education is abundantminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, the place is peacefulso she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and the Elders promise them wrestles hay bales for a trip on job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the next train blistering disease and he has no access to Civilisation. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe itthe healthcare that could save her. But itIt's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems a mean, desperate existence for them both and Gene begins so they are first to wonder if they havenvolunteer for the Stipulators't simply exchanged one hellhole trials for another. Although they find out a great deal more about new mission to the Scientist - he developed the Origin, neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as ever. And with the vampires coming ever closer, even virus to the Mission itself, kill them can be engineered and the Elders making moves citizens of their own, time is running out Earthasia will have access to the space and Gene and Sissy must decide what to doabundant food sources Piloria offers... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Underground |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Before we begin. If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first It is difficult to properly review this book]] in this series, DON'T read this reviewwithout giving too much away. It contains There will be mild spoilers. Read my review of throughout this right from the first book, read start but I will try to avoid the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorrymain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J HarperBeckett_America|title=The DisappearedAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jackson is self-confident''America City'' tells the story of Holly, motivated and happyan ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. After allSet in the 22nd century, he attends one of the top Learning Communities and has an AEP score novel tells of 98.5. He is destined to become an important part incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the Leadership some day. You affluent Northern States, and I might see Jackson as an insufferablethe South, pompous ass but, since he which is surrounded frequently ravaged by people like him, Jackson doesn't see it like thatextreme weather. But then a seemingly random violent attack leaves Jackson battered Holly and bloody and his best friend Wilson dead. When police return him Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the Learning Community, Jackson finds his teachers claim not plan they believe 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 be the solution to fight. And they're kept in line by Reds - nominated Specials who get extra food and pride the problem of where to place in the violent Academy pecking orderthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sangu MandannaFeatherstone_Paradise|title=The Lost Paradise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Eva is an echoKerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. Woven at the Loom, she The farm is high up on a carbon copy of Amarra, hill and it's 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 family endeavour - live in her homegrandparents, go to her schoolmother, even kiss her boyfriendKerryl. So EvaThere's young life a market town below but Kerryl's family is all about Amarra. She eats concentrated on the same foods, studies farm and the same subjectshard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, reads the same booksthough, watches the same films. When Amarra gets is a fiercely bright girl - she's won a tattoo, so must Eva. The Weavers impose many rules place at Cambridge University and if Eva breaks even one of them, her life is forfeitlooking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849416176</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff NortonSutcliffe_See|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)We See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonah's father died Lex lives in the battle for control of the Metaspherewhat used to be London. He was Today, it is a Guardian closed- a terrorist or freedom fighteroff, depending how you see things bombed- out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and he had infiltrated himself into nobody can go out. Drones are a position of trust with the Millenialsconstant presence overhead, the group supporting the billionaire inventor who created food is short and controlled an online world in which people living in life is hard. But there's a post peak-oil girl he likes and devasted Earth spend most 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 their timedrone pilot. But before He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he died's hyped up to do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, Jason Delacroixafter all. Alan's memories had been uploaded to observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the Metasphere resistance organisation known as an avatar''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan MaberryRoberts_Real|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)The Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=53|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped If you had the horrors of Gameland at choice would you live your life online? In the dreadful cost of losing Tomfuture, Bennythis may be possible, Nix, Lilah and Chong must journey through with the Rot & Ruin without his warrior smarts. They're in search development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the jet they saw in the sky months agoonline world is more real than your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. They hope to find hopeThe only thing is that with most people online, 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 us will have to be. When stay in the undead started real world to walkdeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kat ZhangMerbeth_Raid|title=What's Left Of MeRaid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Addie and Eva are 15 year olds living somewhere A brutal road trip in Americaa blighted landscape that pulls no punches. They have We travel with Clementine, a motherbounty hunter, in a father and a younger brother. But Addie and Eva are not sisters, world without heroes or twins, in the usual sense. They are two minds who share one body, and they are in troublehope.|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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]