The only survivor is a young girl, Nita Chaudhury, who happens to be the daughter of a wealthy businessman. One young ship breaker is Nailer and his world is turned upside down when a modern day ship crashes on the coast after a violent storm hits the area. The abandoned oil rigs provide a treasure trove for the locals to scavenge and sell parts with the scavengers being known as ship breakers. Times have become rough on what is left of the US gulf coast. It seems that the world has finally come to terms that dependence on fossil fuels is not a good thing and ships that had transported oil are now being abandoned into ship graveyards. The first novel, Ship Breaker, introduces us to a world that has been ravaged from climate change and it looks like the US of A has taken it pretty bad. It is, however, quite violent with a dystopian outlook on humanity’s future which may be too intense for younger readers. It is labeled as a young adult series mainly because some of the main characters are young, early 20s and maybe in their teens. This will be the fourth series that I have reviewed on climate change and I would have to say that, so far, it is one of the best. Thriller Sub-genre: Cli-Fi, Techno-thriller, YA – Chinese, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
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