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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Chanter1836284683|title=The WellBig Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=34.5

|summary=The subject and title of Catherine ChanterWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's debut novel is a country idyll of which dreams are made: charmingly ramshacklenothing like I expected it to be, disarmingly verdant and heaving it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with fertile acreage''The Big Happy''. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at finding this perfect retreat, an oasis from their tired and overwrought City existenceleast set the scene. Several months down the road and with the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic droughtOnce that's done, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The WellI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri TerryB0DB64PYV5|title=Mind GamesThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Luna is a Refuser. In her world2033, a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector and a Ludditesuperstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. In this post WW3 Britain, almost everyone has And it's not a brain implant which they use to spend most of their lives in a virtual environment. People don't just play in the vast array of games: they workstorm that gathers, they learnwreaks havoc, they date. Even hacking is encouragedthen dissipates. And those who opt outInstead, it hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like Lunatentacles, are shut out of the best careers not giving up and viewed with suspicionnever going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HoneywellKay Chronister|title=The ShipDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family homeWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Because this Whether it is not the London a robotic takeover, a world devoid of todaywater or a nuclear holocaust, or any other daythis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. When Lalla was seven, ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – and the world could only focus on survivalfears that exist for humanity today. Now the Nazareth Act It is in force and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you don't produce ita shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezThomas D Lee|title=InfluxPerilous Times|rating=53|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary=We are told to never judge ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn world on the frontverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had The British Isles desperately needs a quote suggesting that he was hero (or several) to save the legitimate heir to Michael Crichtonday and rescue what little remains. To compare your work with What no-one expected was that one of the best techno thriller writers Knights of all time is never going to be easy and time after time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as CrichtonRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerB0BQXSYYTF|title=The Age of MiraclesJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Age It was the summer of Miracles'' 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was one celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of those muchhis marriage -talked about books that I never got not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the time to read on its first go around. Itornado - they'm not sure how I managed re more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, but I dida French journalist in his thirties. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after He writes for a bidding war and it has dystopian themesrelatively new paper, so it is the right up my alley -wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and not 'the sort of thing IFrench'd usually miss. And so His partner, Helen, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market who's English and even happier that they decided Jewish, keeps him in check to send me a copysome extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peyton Marshall Susi Holliday |title=GoodhouseThe Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=There A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been times in history when governments 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 thought a dark secret they knew who 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}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal underclass was. This did not lead activities have been amped up to anything good under a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the Nazis 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 same guards who can be said end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of the Goodhouse regimeenergy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. If we knew that certain genetics led 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 increased chance infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of criminalitysympathetic Alt guard Wren, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young can Luka ever be a good thingfree? Why has he been imprisoned? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure What waits for him if fascism is.he can break the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallMargaret Atwood|title=This is ShynessThe Testaments

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I don'This t want to tell you too much about the plot because it's a novel that is Shynessentirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that '' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and WildgirlThe Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, two strangers who meet is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a pub girl brought up in Gilead with the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn togetherexpectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, each adopting a different identity so for rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the night they can be anyone but themselvesstore owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=The Remaining: AftermathSomething to Tell You|author=D J MollesDavid Edwards

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=A week is Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time in politics. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but it feels infinitely longer in a zombie apocalypsethis 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 private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam'The Remainings two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam'' started s wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a new series of books particle physicist - spotted that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the fanearth had risen exponentially. As an introduction, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did It's enough of a great job in creating the world problem for Sam and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick Bert to drag the missionhead of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, but it ended so abruptlyout of a family lunch. ''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later and continues the tale, but does it still deliver Then Bert started having conversations with a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>plant called Lily.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1789550149|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Poster Boy|author=N J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The city has been rebuilt for warI first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. The waves Some of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastatingus may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Not only Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that but also all he got wrong was the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of date. Crosskey hasn't put a problem date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as a resourcefar in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. Actually A lot of what happens in one or two cases the word 'problem'Poster Boy'' is a bit of an understatementalready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and surviveblurb, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to go turn its fiction into the enemy's hive and bring the battle reality". My only response to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=SandThe Last|author=Hugh HoweyHanna Jameson

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building Jon Keller is in a hotel in science fiction Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is easier said than donealive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. How can you design a completely foreign place Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and explain it all exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to your readerthe airport and home. He's not alone, whilst still writing twenty other people also stay and gradually form a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howeysmall community. One day, when helping the answer is with consummate ease. Howey has already got hotel manager, Jon finds the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going body of a girl deemed to be have been killed before the difficult second album syndromeworld ended. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly The community descends into ‘Sand’, his new novela deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Seven Second Delay|authorisbn=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1473203287|title=Mutant CitySummerland|author=Steve FeaseyHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After a devastating chemical warthe discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the world Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away caught up in underground bunkers a race against Soviet spies and, when they re-emerged, built six cities dealing with a mole buried deep in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfortheart of Summerland. But outside When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the city wallspotential rogue agent, everything she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is very differentwilling to risk to uncover the truth. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=RiotGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Sarah MussiRachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=It is 2018 ''You want me to be like everyone else and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated spend my life hiding inside the countrywalls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. Banks So long as there are going under. Unemployment titans out there… no one is rising. The cost safe'' In the dystopian world of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the population is still rising. Something has safety of high impenetrable walls to givekeep out the enemies outside. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all schoolKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employmentlike creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. The programme has started with prisoners but Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the legislation to roll it walls have always kept them out across the population is about , that has begun to go through parliament. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The GiverSurvival Game|author=Lois LowryNicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered to, Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and which allow society is on her way home to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely acceptedthe Isle of Arran. When they turn twelve, children in this But Mhairi's world are assigned their future role in society has been ravaged by climate change and the Eldersmass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and start training for soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters across Africa and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver of the elderly, a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares said for Muma and provides food, they are usually a good match for the personPapa. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role, however. He is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, a position given She's even made it out only once every few generations. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which detention centre at the rest of society are no longer burdened withairport. And during this journey, but which may be needed from time Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to time to aid in decision making and law enforcementrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Goddess84K|author=Laura PowellClaire North|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After an economic collapseTheo can, Britain is close he calculates the worth of each person to breaking pointthe penny. Citizens are going hungry ''The Company'' own everything and there are riotseveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Cult of ArtemisCriminal Audit Office. In this BritainDoing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the beliefs cost of the Ancient Greeks persevere and crimes filling his inbox. They are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as variables on a spreadsheet, a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by simple mathematical equation, the suffering outside expense of solving the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite crime added to take over how much the position of head priestess when Opis retiresvictim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=ZOM-B MissionEverything About You|author=Darren ShanHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkIn the future, your social feed is your entire existence. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for the series so farA.I. If is here and it is all around you don't want any, then run along and read our review of the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]. OtherwiseIt fills your fridge, read this review at it keeps up to date with your own risk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers|author=Benjamin Legrand friends and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4fulfils your wishes.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind It is living also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on a single trainreality. Oh sorry, as this Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the sequellatest smart specs, make that two trains. Launched on glasses which give her all the same tracks as the original Snowpiercerinformation she'll ever need, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth right in front of a trainher eyes by barely thinking about it, designed complete with the latest high tech a personality to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once moreguide her. But The problem is that the high tech personality on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities the glasses is that of virtual holidays depending on cost her missing and class of customer, has not put paid to one aspect of society – presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Volunsettled by this.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the first book]] – religionvery least to reset them to a different personality. Some people are fearing the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original SnowpiercerBut Freya just can't do this. Some believe theyHearing her sister's voice again is like she're duped into the whole train ideas right there, and are in fact on a spacecraftalthough she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Some people know Is it just possible that something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) |authorisbn=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster family, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if she stepped out of line. But that was some time ago. Since then, some of Kyla's memories have resurfaced and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-the-mill Slated. Used as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilson_Extinction|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeExtinction Trials|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteSM Wilson

|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a single traincontinent ruined by overpopulation. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this Space is a much different circumstance – it scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is a train miles longminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earthefficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time so she lives in the distant futureone of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itgoes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. ItLincoln's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society sister is dying from the rich blistering disease and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, he has no access to the underclass at the endhealthcare that could save her. It's all set in its routinea mean, set in motion. But there desperate existence for them both and so they are two fishes out first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of water – Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a man from virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the rear who escaped, space and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignersabundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=The One Safe PlaceWater & Glass|author=Tania UnsworthAbi Curtis

|genre=Teens|summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfather, away from the rest of the world. He knows 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 street, scavenging for scraps to say alive. But, he’s never been that concerned. On the farm the life is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get by, and they’re happy. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced to leave his home and venture into the city for the first time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of viewSomething has happened, switching back something very nasty and forth between ''R'' on a zombie who has retained submarine a bit more pregnant elephant is one of the power of thought than most, and Julie, only a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more handful of animals living below the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itselfwaves. Two other characters are important to this storylineWe follow Nerissa Crane, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this bookvet, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequelshe remembers recent events, 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 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 looks after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy Laybourne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Niko, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find the US military evacuation team. Dean, Astrid animals and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid falls into the poisoned outside. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Trap|author=Andrew Fukuda|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinctionof intrigue.

We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission It is difficult to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast tableproperly review this book without giving too much away. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the cure that start but I will return Duskers try to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist fatheravoid the main ones. But is that all there is to 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=ShadowlarkAmerica City|author=Meagan SpoonerChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Lark escaped ''America City'' tells the city story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her birth after being tortured own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and stripped of her magic the South, which is frequently ravaged by its architectsextreme weather. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together 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 plan they believe to be the solution to the magic problem of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped where to place the Iron Wood and went in search thousands of her missing brother BasilAmericans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Paradise Girl|author=Catherine FisherPhill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkKerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. LetThe farm is high up on a hill and it's catch you upa family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. JakeThere's father is still lost in time. Venna market town below but Kerryl's wife family is still dead. Summer, concentrated on the Queen of farm and the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janushard but beautiful living associated with it. And the Scarred Man still hasn't doneKerryl, wellthough, whatever it is that hea fiercely bright girl - she's trying to do. The Chronoptika, won a mirror made of black obsidian place at Cambridge University and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from itis looking forward to going. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelyShe loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Resist (Breathe)|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summaryisbn=''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 - The Grove - destroyed by the Pod Ministry, Alina, Bea and Quinn, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilous, 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>}}{{newreviewSutcliffe_See|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 and the Island is under threat. 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>}}{{newreviewWe See Everything|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=Fire & AshWilliam Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewjob of drone pilot. So if you havenHe hasn't read bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Last Man StandingThe Real-Town Murders|author=Davide Longo and Silvester MazzarellaAdam Roberts

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plantsIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, to nuclear warthis may be possible, plague, or zombies. This is with the first to present a complete meltdown development of society as fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility online world is more real than the average vampire your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or zombie plaguechecking statuses. The main protagonist, Leonardo, only thing is not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man that with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities most people online, some of any kind - us will have to stay in the only thing that gives him the courage real world to continue is his love for his estranged daughter, who suddenly reappears in his life, along deal with unexpected events – such as a deeply disturbed stepbrother, early in the crisisreal town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=More Than ThisRaid|author=Patrick NessK S Merbeth

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Here is the boyA brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, drowninga bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.''}}

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>}}{{newreview|title=The 100|author=Kass Morgan|rating=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 Move 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>}}{{newreview|title=Split Second|author=Sophie McKenzie|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, 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 worse. But it did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]