![]() ![]() Instead, readers will be drawn into the spiral of self-destruction in which main characters are simultaneously victims and perpetrators. Driven by reflective prose that doesn’t short-change tension, this thoughtful and thought-provoking novel offers plenty of plot despite that fact that, after the initial crime, nothing really happens. ![]() As the clock winds down to their inevitable capture, the teens reflect on the choices they’ve made and the role that meds, a broken society, and their own weaknesses played in their downfall. ![]() In the days following the crime, though, they quickly find themselves stymied by what to do next and are soon surrounded by cops and the media. Riding high on the chaotic power of looting and destruction, a small crew of teens takes a City bureaucrat hostage in an abandoned warehouse. In the future, London is burning, as youth riot in the wake of the withdrawal of their government-provided behavior-control meds. ![]()
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