Semi post apocalyptic journey from propaganda to truth.Punctuated with newsflashes, attacks, sixth sense and a hint of romance the book has plenty to appeal. Starting after an event which is then told in news style snippits, but I would have liked an inside view of the past action.The locations are visable and contrasted as are the characters and their actions. They are kids as adults and their contradictions and confusion addles their story lines and subtracts from the story in some spaces.Overall enjoyable and I am looking forward to book 2. Grab it for a bedside read, but be prepared to read late into the night or possibly til dawn. This series is being promoted as Hunger Games meets X-Men, and I think that's setting inaccurate expectations for readers. Of course, how do you say "No, no, it's Cherie Priest's 'Boneshaker' meets X-Men, in London" when YA readers might not be as likely to have Boneshaker on their radar. There are questions left unanswered in this book, but I was okay with that because I knew it was the first in a series. I've also read plenty of other books where a quarantined area is written off by the rest of the world, so that didn't strike me as incomplete worldbuilding when I saw it here, though I understand that it made suspension of disbelief difficult for some readers. All told, it's a solid, creepy foundation for a very interesting series with a lot of episodic potential.
Do You like book London Eye (2012)?
It. Sounds. So. Cool. And "Hunger Games meets X-Men"? SIGN ME UP.
—insaf
