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Author: M. R. Carey
Released: 2014
This book is a one that I picked up and read quite quickly, it took me about a week overall, which I am really impressed with. Whilst the book is classed as a Thriller, I found the writing to be slightly juvenile, and would categorize this as a YA/NA Thriller, rather than an adult thriller.
This book follows Melanie, who has a strain of the Hungries gene. But she is not alone. Each and every day she is kept in a prison cell, and goes to class, gets fed, and showers, all whilst tied to her chair and she doesn't know why she is restrained. People approach her with caution, and she has no idea why. When she gets strapped into her chair each day, guns are pointed at her, and she jokingly states 'no need for guns, I wont bite' - to which nobody laughs.
The book follows Melanie's journey to finding out what she really is, and how she copes with this information. When the army base where she is kept imprisoned gets invaded by a mix of Hungires and Junkers (the 'normal' people who chose to live in the wild when the Hungries took over), Melanie must flee with the surviving humans, including her teacher, a scientist who wants to kill her, and the Seargant who points a gun to her head everyday.
I absolutely loved this book, and filmed a video review, which you will be taken to by clicking the image of the book cover at the top of this post.
The characters are really easy to love, or hate, and I found myself sympathising more and more with Melanie, who reminds me a little bit of Nick Frost's character in Shaun of the Dead at the end, which for me made her more relatable. The story is also set in the UK, not to far from London, so it also made a pleasant change to read a book set in my home country.
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