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|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. Well! This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with is a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}}murder mystery unlike any other!

{{newreview|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy Laybourne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left our supermarket kids I do love it when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. NikoI open a book, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and it's nothing like I expected it to find the US military evacuation team. Deanbe, Astrid and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outsidetakes me on a wild ride. And when we say poisoned, we mean itthat is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. A bioweapons accident had left I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the air toxic in different ways to different peoplescene. Once that's done, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake isI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=The TrapWhite Rose|author=Andrew FukudaDave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about In 2033, a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinction. We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on superstorm known as the train that delivers hepers from White Rose devastates the Mission to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast tableNorthern Hemisphere. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist father. But is that all there is to And it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shadowlark|author=Meagan Spooner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as people but as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She can drain 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 Basil. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=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. Summerstorm that gathers, the Queen of the Sheewreaks havoc, still hasn't made Venn her husbandthen dissipates. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't doneInstead, 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 hovers across half the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Resist (Breathe)|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and the world is a ravaged place in which there isn't enough oxygen to fully sustain human life. A corporation, Breathe, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). Outside, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to the Pod Earth with its octopus- The Grove - destroyed by the Pod Ministry, Alina, Bea and Quinn, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilouslike tentacles, journeys to find the other, Sequoia. And back in the Pod, Ronan is rethinking the world he thought he lived in but didn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Waking World (The Future King)|author=Tom Huddleston|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Many tales have been told of the boy who became our greatest king. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran is the son of one of the Island's wealthiest Laws. He lives in the underground farmstead of Hawk's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere giving up and the Island is under threatnever going away. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning to attack further and further inland, burning homes and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against them but that task has been given to his older brother. Aran's future lies in overseeing the farmstead and it's not a future he wants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryKay Chronister|title=Fire & AshDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=ALERT! Spoilers With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for early books in the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this reviewgenre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. So if you haven't read 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the others, get thee over fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]find hope. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>1803364998

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last Man StandingThomas D Lee|authortitle=Davide Longo and Silvester MazzarellaPerilous Times

|genre=Dystopian FictionFantasy|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plants, to nuclear war, plague, or zombies. This 'Hate is the first to present a complete meltdown of society as the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility than the average vampire or zombie plague. The main protagonist, Leonardo, is not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities path of any kind - the only thing that gives him the courage to continue is his love for his estranged daughter, who suddenly reappears in his life, along with a deeply disturbed stepbrother, early in the crisis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=More Than This|author=Patrick Ness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.least resistance''

And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by Set in the seanear-distant future, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against in a world on the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware verge of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavyclimate collapse, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving hero (or several) to save the day and aliverescue what little remains. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like What no-one expected was that one of 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 Knights of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one dayRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreview|title=The 100|author=Kass MorganFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Teens|summary=Nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains of human society, a colony of people that managed to escape the cataclysm, live out their lives on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run out, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect the remaining population. With options running out, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent to the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth taking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB0BQXSYYTF|title=Split SecondJust Looking|author=Sophie McKenzieMatthew Tree

|summary=Nat It was the summer of 2035 and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day on a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was trying to find celebrating his brother new-found wealth and stop him because hethe end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's pretty sure Lucas is watching the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldntornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that't let her get s keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a tattooFrench journalist in his thirties. And He writes for a relatively new paper, the bomb went off. Charlieright-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise''s mother died. Natand he's brother was left in interesting if a comalittle wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. In this Britain of the near-future His partner, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerityHelen, where people queue for free food handouts who's English and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversationJewish, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it didkeeps him in check to some extent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=1Q84: The Complete TrilogySusi Holliday |authortitle=Haruki MurakamiThe Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has all-expenses paid retreat to be read in this way as test a brand-new product from the three component books make little sense on their ownmysterious Timeo Technology company. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, thoughgroup includes a games designer, demand a degree of dedicationsocial media influencer, gossip columnist and if the prospect hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot and in which there expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be mystery. We follow the best entry point into group as they explore the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami thoughisland, itand each other's possible to read this book at histories and it becomes clear that they all have a number of levelsdark secret they would rather keep hidden. On As the surface clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it's a love story set in soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown ingilded cage. At In a deeper levelrace against time, he explores Amelia must struggle to uncover the thin lines between imagination reason for her attendance and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's a novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book protect the rest of this magnitude 'delicate', but the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that's just how the story appearsbefall them. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>1542020018}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BloodtideBen Oliver|authortitle=Melvin BurgessThe Loop|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian FictionTeens|summary=Set in during the aftermath of a world only Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic futurehorrific level by machines, half in The Loop follows the mists precarious existence of the myths adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part 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 Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villainsguards who can end his life with one squeeze. Civilisation has long abandoned London Luka is taunted by limited access to its criminals his memories and its gang wars, going so far as relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a lust guinea pig for violenceAlts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the population trapped inside only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the city wallsvisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, Val Volson can Luka ever be free? Why 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 he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break out of the city and prosper. loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night WitchesMargaret Atwood|authortitle=LJ AdlingtonThe Testaments

|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from RodinaFinally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. ItI don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it's a nation of science and rationalitynovel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the tradition of all authoritarian societiesexpectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, it is ruthless a rebellious teenage girl in stamping out traces Canada who knows of the Old World Gilead only from school lessons and its belief in witchesPearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents. 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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Blinded by the Light1789018870|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summarytitle=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 is Outside - a wasteland populated 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. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more Something to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Testing 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, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, they are from where the wrong side effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the tracksaffluent Northern States, and the South, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Unable Holly and Slaymaker hope to live easy and glittering lives like change this, working together on the elite, plan they scam and forage and hack their way believe to be the solution to some degree the problem of comfort and still manage where to avoid place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Paradise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty- very unpleasant first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - state security apparatus for grandparents, mother, Kerryl. There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the most parthard but beautiful living associated with it. Not that thereKerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's much state left for the security apparatus won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to protectgoing. She loves poetry. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri TerrySutcliffe_See|title=FracturedWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=As Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a teen criminal in Lorderclosed-run Britainoff, Kyla was slated bombed- her memories erased out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and her personality "reset"life is hard. But Kyla wasnthere't like s a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the other Slateds - she retained tantalising memories job of her previous lifedrone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he'Fractured'' picks s hyped up Kylato do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's story fighting terrorism, after she's lost Ben and just as a mysterious man from her past comes back into her lifeall. It seems that KylaAlan's memories represent more than just observation target is a failed slating. She has high-profile target - a role to play man high up in the fight against the Lordersresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But it's not as easy as thatLex calls him Dad. Is Kyla a victim}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=The Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=If you had the choice would you live your life online? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can In the future, this may be possible, with the end ever justify development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the means? online world is more real than your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The more Kyla learns about her historyonly thing is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the more real world to deal with unexpected events – such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself in.as a real town murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.

{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Siege|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Leah Jackson is miserable and in detention. This is particularly infuriating because Move on the detention means she's likely to be late for her ''fame and fortune'' interview, one of the few chances kids at YOP schools have to make it into college and to get a life worth having. 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 roofspace. 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>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]