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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GoddessKay Chronister|authortitle=Laura PowellDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=After With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking pointalmost masochistic thrill. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura Whether it is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult robotic takeover, a world devoid of Artemis. In water or a nuclear holocaust, this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as genre is a mainstream religionway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retiresfind hope. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=ZOMSet in the near-B Mission|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Okdistant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the series so farday and rescue what little remains. If you don't want any, then run along and read our review What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]. Otherwise, read this review at your own riskRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersJust Looking|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteMatthew Tree

|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction|summary=All It was the summer of humankind is living 2035 and on a single train. Oh sorrycruise ship in Marseilles, as this is Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the sequel, make that end of his marriage - not two trains. celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! Launched on He's watching the same tracks as tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the original Snowpiercercruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of French journalist in his thirties. He writes for a trainrelatively new paper, designed with the latest high tech to be completely selfright-sustaining wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for difference between 'France' and 'the time the world was inhabitable once moreFrench'. But the high tech on boardHis partner, complete with lemon farmsHelen, who's English and differing qualities Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent.}}{{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of virtual holidays depending strangers gather on cost and class of customer, has not put a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to one aspect of society – and in fact test a brand-new product from the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Volmysterious Timeo Technology company.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and Jean-Marc Rochette|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 first book]] – religionisland, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. Some people As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are fearing the end revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, when Amelia must struggle to uncover the Icebreaker crashes into reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the original Snowpiercerincreasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3. Some believe they're duped into 5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the whole train ideaaftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and are in fact on Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a spacecraftliving hell with no chance of escape. Some people know something else – A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the rare few explorers guards who get can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to go outside his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the train into only glimmers of hope being the world beyond, rumours of rebellion outside and see glimpses the visits of what came before…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>1782761365</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) Margaret Atwood|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Testaments

|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid'slateds Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it' as s a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britainnovel that is entirely plot driven. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent Suffice it to live with say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a new foster familyvan, controlled not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a wrist bracelet that could kill her if girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she stepped out of line. But that was some time ago. Since thenwill marry a commander; Daisy, some a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Kyla's memories have resurfaced Gilead only from school lessons and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the-mill Slatedstore owned by her parents.. Used as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one way.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeSomething to Tell You|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteDavid Edwards

|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living on Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a single trainlong time. I know British commuters feel that way Bert was Sam's boss at timesCERN, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles longnever seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, running nonfifteen-stop as a selfyear-contained unit across tracks circling olds Allie and Josh, went to a desolately frozen Earthprivate boarding school, moving on endlessly untilbut at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itLiam and Hannah. ItSam's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near the frontwife, through the orgiastsBriony, past the useful carriages set aside was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for producing foodall eight of them, to until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the underclass rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the endearth had risen exponentially. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out enough of water – a man from problem for Sam and Bert to drag the rear who escapedhead of CERN, and Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a middle-class woman working family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with civil rights campaignersa plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=The One Safe PlacePoster Boy|author=Tania UnsworthN J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Devin lives on I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a farm with his grandfather, away from long time in the rest future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the worlddate. He knows Crosskey hasn't put a little about date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it – how the gap between rich and poor is would not be as far wider than the world we live in, and how many children now live on the street, scavenging for scraps to say alivefuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. But If she had, he’s never been that concernedI suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. On the farm the life A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get by, and they’re happyalready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. When tragedy strikesIn the blurb, Devin is forced Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to leave his home and venture turn its fiction into the city for the first timereality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=Warm BodiesThe Last|author=Isaac MarionHanna Jameson

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies Jon Keller is told in an alternating first person point of viewa hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, switching back and forth between he has no idea what''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of s going on in the power of thought than mostnearest city, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who or if the nearest city has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about othersobliterated. In shortShocked, R has far more humanity than amid the average zombiemass hysteria and exodus, but Julie also held on Jon decides to more of stay at the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered hotel rather than attempt to get to the human race itselfairport and home. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', RHe's best friend and Noranot alone, Julie's closest friend twenty other people also stay and confidantgradually form a small community. I especially liked NoraOne day, who has suffered far more than Juliewhen helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and yet still finding the truth about what is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as wellpossibly the last community on earth.|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 book, 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 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 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.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1473203287|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)Summerland|author=Emmy LaybourneHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the end discovery of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Nikothe afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find Big Smoke for the US military evacuation teamrecently deceased. Dean, Astrid In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and three dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outsideSummerland. And when we say poisonedWhen Rachel White, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the air toxic in different ways potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake go and how much she iswilling to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The TrapFrontpage|authorisbn=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 extinction. We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast table. 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 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>}} {{newreview1683690613|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 Garrison Girl (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. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{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 - The Grove - destroyed by the Pod Ministry, Alina, Bea and Quinn, our three central characters, set out Attack 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>}} {{newreview|title=The Waking World (The Future KingTitan)|author=Tom HuddlestonRachel Aaron

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

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

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

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books in Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewIsle of Arran. So if you havenBut Mhairi't read the others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin s world has been ravaged by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Last Man Standing|author=Davide Longo climate change and Silvester Mazzarella|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts the mass movement of a world changed overnight people and it is one defined by everything from man eating plantsborders, to nuclear war, plague, or zombiescheckpoints and soldiers with guns. This is the first Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane 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 Heathrow a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities of any kind - the only thing that gives him the courage to continue which is his love more than can be said 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=4Muma and Papa.5|genre=Teens|summary=She''Here is s even made it out of the detention centre at the boy, drowningairport.'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seaduring this journey, arms Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else 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 aliveyou can't allow anyone else to rely on you. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=The 10084K|author=Kass MorganClaire North

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

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

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

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

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in Something has happened, something very nasty and on a world submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists handful of animals living below the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villainswaves. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang warsWe follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen''she remembers recent events, genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With looks after the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to animals and falls into 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 world of the city and prosperintrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ Adlington|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And, in the tradition of all authoritarian societies, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witchesdifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. Rodina is controlled by a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even start but I will try to avoid the minutiae of their daily livesmain ones. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe KiplingFrontpage|ratingisbn=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary 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 to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeckett_America|title=The Testing America City|author=Joelle CharbonneauChris Beckett

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

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

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

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

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

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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan WellsMerbeth_Raid|title=FragmentsRaid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I didn't have much hope for this book - the middle book A brutal road trip in a series tends to be fillerblighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brillianta bounty hunter, I though it was going to be hard to topin a world without heroes or hope. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Malorie Blackman|title=Noble Conflict|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Kaspar believes in the Alliance with a whole heart. Who wouldn't? In the face of terrorist attacks from the Crusader Insurgency, the Alliance's response is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killed. They're incapacitated, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in the least violent way possible. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking Kaspar's, you can see how measured and ethical the Alliance's response seems. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=Silver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits Move 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 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>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm going to do this for all books in this series except the first one. Before we begin. If you haven't read the first book in this series, DON'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first book, read the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorry... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]