A story for a new generation of Maximum Ride fans! 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City . . . until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight. Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her. She stays under the radar to survive…until a destiny that’s perilously close to Maximum Ride’s forces her to take flight.
With a pandemic currently happening, we’ve seen many changes in the world recently. You can’t help but think about certain movies, books, and graphic novels where the whole story and concept is exactly about that, you know? “That’s too much like what’s happening right now!” is something that you might say if you read one of these books. These apocalyptic cities where these YA books are partially or completely set might be too real for some of us.
As you can see, these post apocalyptic cities in YA have managed to tell reality somehow? Who would have thought. You can check out the best post-apocalyptic books of 2019 or these ones from 2018.
Janelle, or Ellie, survives inside an apartment building in Manhattan. Some tenants escaped to other places, some stayed. It’s there that she creates her secret library. The aliens, Ilori, prohibited art: books, music, instruments.
After meeting an Ilori, Morris, the two embark on a road trip where they show you bits of the United States and what was left behind: aliens keeping public libraries to remember history, to remember what and who was there before; abandoned houses that look like the people who lived there just disappeared. There are a lot of ghost towns where once upon a time there was life.
The citizens inside these cities are practically trapped there by the Outer Wall; this massive wall of iron, steel, and concrete that makes it impossible to escape. Though who would want to escape when beyond the Wall lies the “kill zone”: a place that is so deadly it is only there to keep the rabids away from the Wall.
So with all of these dangerous creatures, Allie is at a disadvantage from the beginning. But then, fate has other plans for her, when she is suddenly turned and becomes a vampire.
The story of this dystopian world is that men destroyed the city with their greed. And Déesse’s great-grandmother trained the women to defend themselves against men. And so Mega City became a city of women. Past their borders is a whole other world, but they do not go beyond for their own safety.
Onyii dreams of Briafra, a city of buildings made of glass that touch the sky. A place where the contamination doesn’t reach, where you can pick fruit straight from the trees. But her reality is nothing close to that. Here, in the camp where she lives, she can find trash on the ground, ancient smartphones polluting where she walks, Fanta plastic bottles reminding her of a world that was.
Noam used to live in Durham before he was transferred to the government complex. All the buildings were originally “something else.” For example, Noam’s building was a bookstore once upon a time. It depends on the events happening at the moment that make things change. After the catastrophe, everyone died. Everyone except Minister Lehrer, the one boy who overthrew a nation and became its king.
Six months later, her only companion is a dog. They can’t stay in one place for fear of encountering aliens, so they travel. Every town they visit is a ghost town—not a single soul in sight. But then she hears a girl named Brooklyn on the radio. There are more humans.
