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354 pp.
| Delacorte
| April, 2015
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TradeISBN 978-0-385-74447-8$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-0-385-39014-9
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YA
An anti-PTSD drug creates the violent Fearless, whose Invasion leads Cass and family to escape to isolationist Hope Island. Seven years later, her brother is kidnapped and Cass embarks on a rescue mission with secretive stranger Myo, to childhood friend Sol's dismay. Though multiple points of view lack distinction, this intense dystopian novel interestingly shows the events leading to society's collapse.
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YA
Jenna, incarcerated for the supposed murder of her parents, questions her twenty-second-century society after a resistance group helps her escape. This event launches an adventure in which she must assume layers of secret identities. ACID, the police force running what was once the United Kingdom, modifies her memory more than once, and the resulting unreliable narration makes for a fresh take on the dystopian genre.