Fans of the Divergent and Hunger Games series will love Wasteland, the
first installment of the Wasteland trilogy, by five-time Emmy
Award-nominated writer Susan Kim and Edgar Award-winning Laurence
Klavan. With heart-pounding thrills, this harrowing survival story is
alive with action and intrigue. Welcome to the Wasteland, a
post-apocalyptic U.S. where no one lives past the age of 19. But an
early death isn't the only doom waiting around the corner: Everyone is
forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal
attacks by the variants--hermaphroditic outcasts that live on the
outskirts of Prin.
Esther doesn't care that her best friend, a variant, is considered "the
enemy." She doesn't care that Levi, who controls the Source, is the real
enemy and might send his Taser boys after her if she makes one wrong
move. Then she meets Caleb, and just possibly, she might have a chance
at salvation.