Whether children would be scarce and become a sort of black market business. I loved the idea that humans would lose our fertility because of all the things we are putting into our body because of how plausible it would be, and in a way, it kind of worried me about what would happen to us in the future. Retain youthful until the day you die? Still working on that, but progress is being made. Live to 150 using health products? On our way there already.

This book was creepy too, to describe it eloquently, because of how close to reality it seemed, and how well Alex Shearer worked on building it up. It was great to see how this semi-villain acted and how real he was, even if he was creepy.ĭeet wasn't the only thing that was creepy though. Yes, he's technically the villain, but you get the sense he cares for Tarrin throughout the whole novel- though whether it's real is something I couldn't figure out the whole way through.

Deet, being in most of the novel was particularly interesting for me to read about. As well as the main characters, I also liked pretty much all of the other characters, whether they appeared throughout the whole of the novel or even down to a few pages. I could understand all his frustrations, and I rooted for him pretty much the whole novel. The main character, Tarrin was likable, and while his innocence was a little tiresome at times, but in general I enjoyed how he grew and matured as a character, and got a backbone. Speaking of characters, I found most if not all of the characters in general quite well balanced and real. Sure, it's a bad life, but it's good to see a main character with a will to survive instead of being all self sacrificial. No uprisings here, and that was something really refreshing to read about.

Tarrin's just a boy trying to figure out who he is and what he wants to do with his life, instead of having Deet, his guardian using him like a money making machine. Now, unlike a lot of dystopians I read nowadays, it's not about some huge hero who goes and saves the world from this terrible, terrible injustice that is society. This is a book that actually had me shuddering at the idea of the 'Peter Pan' project- in the middle of the day. The Hunted was something I didn't really have high expectations for when I first got it- just another dystopian story which had an okay sounding blurb. WHERE HAVE YOU GUYS GONE?Īs it turns out, at the back of charity book stores. Most of you were genuinely creepy and yet very relatable, and I could really see something that happened in your stories happening to the society we have in the future.

An open letter to dystopians written before 'The Dystopocalypse'(and yes, that's what I'm calling it):

The Hunted by Alex Shearer