Cinder will most likely be a hit with young readers this year. A cool concept, a fairy tale re-imagining, and a 21st century cyborg Cinderella, with a Star War’s like feel to it, there’s a lot to like about Cinder. I…
In our brave new future, DNA engineering has resulted in a terrible genetic flaw. Women die at the age of 20, men at 25. Young girls are being abducted and forced to breed in a desperate attempt to keep humanity…
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children’s Books First Published: 30th March 2010 Format: Paperback Pages: 361 Genre: Dystopian, YA Recommended Reading Age: 16+ Rating: 6/10 Amazon/Goodreads ‘In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave…
I’m Trella. I’m a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I’ve got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally…
Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Whether it’s to go to school or on a date, people don’t venture out of their home. There’s really no need. For the most part, Maddie’s okay with…
‘The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called ‘unwinding’. Unwinding is now a common, and accepted, practice in society. In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways…
‘In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft’s epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that…
‘One choice decides your friends, defines your beliefs and determines your loyalties… forever. When sixteen-year-old Tris makes her choice, she cannot foresee how drastically her life will change. Or that the perfect society in which she lives in about to…
‘On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he’s not. In Cassia’s society, Officials decide who people love. How many children they have. Where they work. When they die. But as Cassia finds herself falling in…
