YA - Riot by Sarah Mussi

  This book felt timely as I sat down to read it and riots exploded all over the Ukraine.  In this fictionalized version however, the year is 2018 and the real problem, the problem at the root of all that is going wrong in the United Kingdom is overpopulation.  So, unless you are going to college or have a job lined up for after high school, you're going to be sterilized.  According to the government, the poor are eating up too many resources and must be weeded out.  Of course, they'll start in the prisons, because that's where this sort of thing always starts.
  Enter Tia aka Eve, an anonymous hacker on the underground web called DarkNet7.  She, along with her compatriot Adam, are staging protests to end the "snip bill".  While their intentions may have been peaceful it's only a matter of time until the populace reaches it's boiling point.  Then, it's time to riot.
  The book moved swiftly and feels so much different than the dystopian novels that are being released almost daily, it seems, in the YA publishing world.  The premise of this book felt possible.  There are DNA sensing robots and sci-fi type things that may not exist yet (or they might), but given some of the radical rhetoric in today's politics, this book felt frighteningly real.  I would recommend that you judge for yourself.  This book is scheduled for release on May 1, 2014, at which point you can find it on our shelves.