One of Us (Paperback)
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Published: 19/07/2018
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'The Girl with All The Gifts meets To Kill A Mockingbird'Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

THEY CALL IT THE PLAGUE
A generation of children born with extreme genetic mutations

THEY CALL IT A HOME
But it's a place of neglect and forced labour

THEY CALL HIM A FREAK
But Dog is just a boy who wants to be treated as normal

THEY CALL THEM DANGEROUS
They might be right

The story of a lost generation, and a boy who just wants to be one of us.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356510972
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 295 g
Dimensions: 129 x 200 x 27 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

The Girl with All The Gifts meets To Kill A Mockingbird - Claire North, author of THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST

It's quite rare to find a story with this much heartbreaking impact . . . this is skilful, powerful stuff - SCIFINOW

A tense thriller with a social conscience . . . an effective, and often moving, portrayal of injustice and prejudice - GUARDIAN

Potent and powerful . . . DiLouie is an emotionally literate writer, able to see the moral complexities of the revolution he sets in motion, and its likely destination . . . captivating - STARBURST

An amazing tour-de-force . . . One of Us rattled me to the core. An engrossing, emotionally-charged book and a work of terrible beauty. I loved it, heart and soul - John Dixon, Bram Stoker award-winning author of PHOENIX ISLAND

One of Us is a powerful and heartbreaking tale about hate fear, and truth. Craig DiLouie is fearless as he explores the dark territory of the human heart - Jonathan Maberry, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author

Frightening in its familiarity, One of Us is a tale of human monsters and monstrous humans - authentic, brutaland inevitable - David Walton, internationally bestselling author of THE GENIUS PLAGUE

This seamless fable of loss, violence and hope forces us to examine what it means to be different and what it means to be human - Patrick Freivald, author of JADE SKY

Craig DiLouie's One of Us is without a doubt one of the best books I'll read this year . . . This book has The Island of Dr Moreau's social conscience, the X-men's imagination and Harper Lee's heart. But it is DiLouie's skill as a storyteller that blends all of that into a compelling work of near perfection - Bracken MacLeod, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author

This is not a kind book, or a gentle book, or a book that pulls its punches. But it's a powerful book and it will change you - Seanan McGuire

An unflinching and at times, harrowing look at the nature of hatred . . . I devoured it in one day . . . and it will stay with me for a long time - TOME AND TANKARD

Disturbing, beautiful and all-too believable, One of Us is a phenomenal monster story and a powerhouse of a novel. DiLouie continues to be the master of writing the human heart and all the terror it contains - Peter Clines, author of THE FOLD

You shouldn't believe there aren't any truly original stories out there anymore, because One of Us is one of a kind - Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Will stay with you long after the book is done - WASHINGTON POST

Dark and disturbingly visceral . . . a worthwhile read - SFX

One of Us is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction - SHELF AWARENESS

A beautifully constructed tragic tale of prejudice and where it leads. Several times through the course of listening to this audiobook, my heart broke into tiny pieces for things that happened. I cannot recommend this book enough - BOOK GEEKS UNCOMPROMISED

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“This is such an important book. But it's also an enjoyable and an emotionally charged book”

Set in the '80s, in the deep south of the United States of America, One of Us features a world in which teenagers born with a genetic mutation are kept separate from society in "homes". We follow a cast... More

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“An emotional and hard-hitting book”

Wow, this is a truly hard-hitting read so hard-hitting that at times it makes for rather uncomfortable reading. I also found it a really emotional experience and I must admit I cried at certain points as it was easy... More

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“Poorly written”

Really not for me. The writing is awkward and clunky. The author shows the persecution against his fictional "monsters" by drawing parallels to both the Holocaust and to black slavery in America - in one... More

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