"Fans of Brooks's Martyn Pig, Kissing the Rain, Candy and Lucas, won't be disappointed by this thrilling, gritty story and it's memorable, heart-breaking characters." - Kirkus Reviews "Brooks's feel for mood and setting is as masterful here as in his taut, noir Martyn Pig. It's a long road, cold and hard and violent. This is the story of the boys' journey from their half-Roma home on a London junk lot to the ghostly moors of Devon, where they hope and fear to find the truth about their sister's death. Cole, seventeen, is a dark-eyed devil who doesn't care if he lives or dies, while Ruben, fourteen, is a strange child who sometimes, inexplicably, experiences sensations above and beyond his own. Three days later, her two younger brothers set out in search of her murderer. She finds a partner who is blind."Peopled with singular protagonists and downright scary villains, this bleak-yet-romantic tale is a whirlwind ride for the right reader." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) On a storm-ravaged night, a nineteen-year-old girl is kidnapped, raped, and killed. See Through Me ( 2019) modulates the existential drama of Being (see above) through the story of a young girl whose skin has become transparent, revealing her human (and therefore disgusting) inner organs. Dogchild ( 2018) is set in a Near Future Dystopian world broken into two enclaves separated by a wilderness populated by feral dogs the enfant sauvage protagonist, having been raised by dogs, must survive as an ostensible human in the far more savage world of a world brought to its knees the first-person narrative is mildly estranged (see Linguistics).
The young protagonist of iBoy ( 2010), filmed for Television as iBoy ( 2017) directed by Adam Randall, awakens from a horrific beating to discover that his iphone has become embedded into his skull, and that he has developed Superpowers. In Being ( 2007), a young man discovers during a medical examination that as far as his inner workings are concerned he is a Cyborg. Thes title of The Road of the Dead ( 2006) is the literal road her siblings must carry to its final home the body of their raped and murdered elder sister. The use of violence in this tale, and in several others, may seem surgical: but at the same time open-eyed.īrooks is of interest for several tales, some directly sf. (1959- ) UK author of Young Adult fiction, most of it nonfantastic, his best-known title being The Bunker Diary ( 2013), whose young protagonist is imprisoned in an Underground bunker his torturer adds other prisoners, all of whom eventually die, including, at the very last, the young protagonist.
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