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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0DB64PYV5|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=SandWhite Rose|author=Hugh HoweyDave Baines|rating=54

|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than doneIn 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. How can you design And it's not a completely foreign place and explain it all to your readerstorm that gathers, wreaks havoc, whilst still writing a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howeythen dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the answer is Earth with consummate ease. Howey has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and following this up was always never going to be the difficult second album syndrome. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new novelaway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Seven Second DelayKay Chronister|authortitle=Tom EastonDesert Creatures|rating=3.54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=In the futureWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, the difference between West and East are greater than everpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)UWhether it is a robotic takeover, linked by a bridgeworld devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, and immigrants risk everything this genre is a way for humans to pass from the third world cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of the latter to the first world post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the formerfears that exist for humanity today. Mila has made it across, but the danger It is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedoma shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=Mutant City|author=Steve Feasey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After a devastating chemical war, Set in the world is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and, when they renear-emergeddistant future, built six cities in which a world on the genetically pure live verge of climate collapse, Britain is in luxury great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and comfortrescue what little remains. But outside What no-one expected was that one of the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstancesKnights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=RiotJust Looking|author=Sarah MussiMatthew Tree

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=It is 2018 was the summer of 2035 and Britain is still on a cruise ship in recession. Years Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of austerity have devastated his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the population is still rising. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all schoolcruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-leavers without Pierre, a secured place French journalist in higher education or his thirties. He writes for a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the legislation to roll it out across difference between 'France' and 'the population is about to go through parliamentFrench'. Unsurprisingly His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, there is a growing popular protest against itkeeps him in check to some extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The GiverSusi Holliday |authortitle=Lois LowryThe Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Jonas lives in A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a world were sameness has prevailed over individualitybrand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. There are rulesThe group includes a games designer, so many rules, which are adhered tosocial media influencer, gossip columnist and which allow society hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to live without pain, suffering or conflicthave an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. These rules are rarely questioned, merely acceptedAll except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. When We follow the group as they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by explore the Eldersisland, and start training for each other's histories and itbecomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. These assignments As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are based on years of observation of their characters revealed, and aptitudesit 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 whether they are assigned 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 activities have been amped up to be a nurturer horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of the young or adolescent Luka Kane. In a caregiver world of the elderlyHave and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a labourer who keeps living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the streets clean or someone guards who prepares can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and provides food, they are usually relentlessly drained of energy through a good match for the persongruelling daily torture ritual. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is not given a typical role, howeverguinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. He His prison is selected to be based on the Receiver model of Memory, a position given out only once every few generationsan infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. He will receive and store all With the memories only glimmers of hope being the past which rumours of rebellion outside and the rest visits of society are no longer burdened withsympathetic Alt guard Wren, but which may can Luka ever be needed from time to time to aid in decision making and law enforcement.free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GoddessMargaret Atwood|authortitle=Laura PowellThe Testaments|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=After an economic collapseFinally! Almost forty years on, Britain is close we have a sequel to breaking point [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. Citizens are going hungry and there are riotsI don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it's a novel that is entirely plot driven. But Aura is shielded from Suffice it all 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's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her position as memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a handmaiden girl brought up in Gilead with the Cult of Artemis. In this Britainexpectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, the beliefs a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of the Ancient Greeks persevere Gilead only from school lessons and are followed by millions - its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the cult sits side store owned by side with Christianity as a mainstream religionher parents.. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=ZOM-B MissionSomething to Tell You|author=Darren ShanDavid Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the series so farfamilies got on. If you don Bert't want anys wife, then run along Natalia, was Russian and read our review 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's two children, Liam and 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 [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]earth had risen exponentially. Otherwise It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, read this review at your own riskProf Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersPoster Boy|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteN J Crosskey|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All I 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. Some of humankind is living on us may have breathed a single trainsigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Oh sorryOthers, as this is the sequelI think, make were out there already working on making sure that two trainsall he got wrong was the date. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at Crosskey hasn't put a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly date on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once morenightmare. But the high tech on boardIf she had, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has I suspect it would not put paid to one aspect of society – and be as far in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the future are 1984 was when I first book]] – religionread Orwell. Some people are fearing the end time If she had, when I suspect it might hardly be in the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercerfuture at all. Some believe theyA lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''re duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecraftis already happening. Some people know something else – Sadly. Frighteningly. In the rare few explorers blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who get might be tempted to go outside the train turn its fiction into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>reality". My only response to that is: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) The Last|author=Teri TerryHanna Jameson|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or Jon Keller is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as in a teen criminal hotel in Lorder-run BritainSwitzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster He has no idea if his familyis alive, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or if she stepped out of linethe nearest city has been obliterated. But that was some time agoShocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. Since then, some of KylaHe's memories have resurfaced not alone, twenty other people also stay and she has discovered that she isn't gradually form a run-small community. One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of-a girl deemed to have been killed before the-mill Slatedworld ended. Used The community descends into a deep mistrust as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, KylaJon becomes fixated on finding this girl's brain has been messed with in more than one waykiller and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeSummerland|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living on Imagine a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at times, world in which death was no longer something to fear but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itsomething to aspire to. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from After the rich and leisured classes near discovery of the frontafterlife, through the orgiastsBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, past the useful carriages set aside Big Smoke for producing food, to the underclass at recently deceased. In 1938 the end. It's all set British Empire is caught up in its routine, set a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in motionthe heart of Summerland. But there are two fishes out of water – a man from When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the rear who escapedpotential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignershow much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The One Safe Place|author=Tania Unsworth|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Devin lives In the dystopian world of Attack on a farm with his grandfatherTitan, away from humanity hides behind the rest safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the worldenemies outside. He knows a little about it – how the gap between rich and poor is far wider than the world we live inKnown as titans, 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 bythese enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and they’re happyregenerative powers. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced Difficult to leave his home kill and venture into innumerable they roam the city Earth looking for prey, and whilst the first time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=Warm BodiesThe Survival Game|author=Isaac MarionNicky Singer

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies Mhairi Anne Bain is told in an alternating first person point fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of view, switching back and forth between Arran. But Mhairi''R'' a zombie who s world has retained a bit more of been ravaged by climate change and the power mass movement of thought than most, people and Julieit is one defined by borders, a feisty checkpoints and courageous heroine, who soldiers with guns. Mhairi has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability made it across Africa and onto a plane to truly care about others. In short, R has far Heathrow - which is more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than detention centre at the human race itselfairport. Two other characters are important to And during this storylinejourney, Mhairi has learned that you can''M'', R's best friend t rely on anyone else and Nora, Julieyou can's closest friend and confidantt allow anyone else to rely on you.. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies84K|author=Isaac MarionClaire North

|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 bookTheo can, but I did feel dissatisfied with he calculates the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most worth of each person to the readers will have already read 'penny. 'Warm Bodies'The Company'. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, own everything and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it downeveryone, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre endingincluding handing out punishments for crime. It felt like half a book to meTheo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. So - in order Doing just enough work to review this fairly - I felt I had to read avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in cost of the endingcrimes filling his inbox. It isn't after all They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the end - it is just expense of solving the beginning of one of crime added to how much the best books I victim would have ever readcontributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)Everything About You|author=Emmy LaybourneHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at In the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. NikoIt fills your fridge, Alex and six others were taking the school bus it keeps up to try to save Brayden who had been shot date with your friends and to find the US military evacuation teamfulfils your wishes. DeanIt is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, Astrid and three loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the little ones had stayed behind - latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it was too risky , complete with a personality to take pregnant Astrid into guide her. The problem is that the poisoned outsidepersonality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. And when we say poisoned, we mean itFreya is thrown and unsettled by this. A bioweapons accident had left Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the air toxic in different ways very least to reset them to a different peoplepersonality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, depending on their blood group. Nobody and although she knows where Jake this isjust Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=The TrapExtinction Trials|author=Andrew FukudaSM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The Trap'' Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is the third scarce and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule energy and humans food are hepers, eaten almost to extinctionrationed. We left Gene Education is minimal and Sissymostly focused around searching for new, along with Epap efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and Davidshe never knew her father, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Rulerso she lives in one of Earthasia's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Originovercrowded ''shelters'', the cure that will return Duskers goes to humans formulated by Geneschool for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's missing scientist father. But sister is that all there is to it? Where did dying from the Duskers come from? Can Gene blistering disease and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned he has no access to Dusker? What does she know the healthcare 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 could save her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. LarkIt's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic a mean, desperate existence for them both and there isnso they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators't enough trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of it aboutPiloria. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it The aim is drained - are in demand - not as people but as to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a resource. But virus to kill them can be engineered and the architects citizens of Earthasia will have made Lark different. She can drain access to the magic of others space and use it herselfabundant food sources Piloria offers.. 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 It is still lost in timedifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from 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 start but I will try to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and avoid the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelymain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=Resist (Breathe)America City|author=Sarah CrossanChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''ResistAmerica City'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and tells the world is a ravaged place story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in which there isn't enough oxygen order to fully sustain human lifehelp the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. A corporationSet in the 22nd century, Breathe, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty novel tells of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). Outsidean incredibly disunited United States, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to where the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the Pod Ministryaffluent Northern States, Alinaand the South, Bea which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Quinn, our three central charactersSlaymaker hope to change this, set out working together on separate, but equally perilous, journeys the plan they believe to find be the other, Sequoia. And back in solution to the Pod, Ronan is rethinking problem of where to place the world he thought he lived in but didn'tthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=The Waking World (The Future King)Paradise Girl|author=Tom HuddlestonPhill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Many tales have been told of Kerryl lives far away from the boy who became our greatest kingurban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran The farm is the son of one of the Islandhigh up on a hill and it's wealthiest Lawsa family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. He lives in the underground farmstead of HawkThere's a market town below but Kerryl's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran family is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere and concentrated on the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning to attack further and further inland, burning homes farm and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against them hard but that task has been given to his older brotherbeautiful living associated with it. AranKerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's future lies in overseeing the farmstead won a place at Cambridge University and it's not a future he wantsis looking forward to going. She loves poetry. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan MaberrySutcliffe_See|title=Fire & AshWe See Everything|author=William 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 plants, to nuclear war, plague, or zombies. This is If you had the first to present a complete meltdown of society as choice would you live your life online? In the result of economic crisesfuture, but this does hold far greater credibility than the average vampire or zombie plague. The main protagonistmay be possible, Leonardo, is not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities the development of any kind - the only thing fully realised virtual reality you may feel 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.'' 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 online 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 lifemore real than your own. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one Even today we spend hours each daylooking at phones or checking statuses.|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 societyonly thing is that with most people online, a colony some of people that managed us will have to escape stay in the cataclysm, live out their lives on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin real world 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 deal with unexpected events – such 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 takingreal town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Split SecondRaid|author=Sophie McKenzieK S Merbeth

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day A brutal road trip in a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplaceblighted landscape that pulls no punches. 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 We travel with Clementine, a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left bounty hunter, 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 didworld without heroes or hope. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy|author=Haruki Murakami|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. 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 is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, it's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, he explores the thin lines between imagination 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 of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how the story appears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bloodtide|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to a position of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out of the city and prosper. |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 witches. Rodina is controlled by a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary 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>}} {{newreview|title=The Testing |author=Joelle Charbonneau|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=I'll break from my usual reviewing style of starting off with a plot summary here, for reasons which will shortly become obvious, and just start by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian read, with a wonderful narrator, which I'd definitely recommend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winter Damage|author=Natasha Carthew|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The moor and all it had got was out there waiting for her in the dark, a cold rock thing, hard as nails.'' 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 a trailer on the frozen Cornish moor. Ennor's mother has been gone for years - after they lost the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugs, 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 Move on the rent and eviction is looming. The social are threatening to take Trip away. There's nothing else for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]