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‘Divergent’ fever? Other dystopian teen fiction to feed your fandom
Victoria Aveyard’s ‘Red Queen’, released February 2015. – AFP/Relaxnews pic, March 4, 2015.Veronica Roth, author of the "Divergent" trilogy, has a new book coming in 2017. In the meantime, what is a teen fiction fan to do?
As the second "Divergent" film, "Insurgent" hits theatres this month, the trilogy's scribe has announced she's got two books on the way. The first, said to be “in the vein of Star Wars”, is to tell the story of a boy and his enemy, both desperate to escape their oppressive lives, who form an unlikely alliance. That book is out in 2017, with the second book in the duology following in 2018.
If you've read "Divergent" and your "Hunger Games" and "Maze Runner" books are long-devoured, here are a few recent and upcoming books that may satisfy your penchant for dystopian teen fiction.
"Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
Released February 2015
In a society where those in possession of super powers are better positioned to lead their nations, a peasant girl with super powers of her own threatens to upset the status quo and is quickly subsumed into the royal line, despite her secret commitment to revolution. The first entry in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's planned young adult trilogy, "Red Queen" was a hit upon its release last month and has been optioned for film by Universal.
"Seeker" by Arwen Elys Dayton
Released February 2015
Having been tipped as the next big thing in young adult fiction, "Seeker" follows the adventures of Quin Kincaid, a girl who has spent her life being trained for the role of a deadly assassin. Destined to fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, she takes her Oath and discovers that being a Seeker is not what she expected. Sony Pictures has optioned the story.
"The Outliers" by Kimberly McCreight
Releasing in April 2015
The new book from the author of the best-selling "Reconstructing Amelia" hasn't hit shelves, but its film rights have already been acquired by Lionsgate, with Reese Witherspoon to produce after her recent successes “Gone Girl” and “Wild”. Focusing on a group called the Outliers, who claim to be able to harness "intuition" as a psychological weapon, the trilogy boasts a heroine with “the wit and wisdom of John Green's Hazel Grace, the ambition of Veronica Roth's Divergent”. – AFP/Relaxnews, March 4, 2015.
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