One of Us
On sale
19th July 2018
Price: £14.99
Genre
‘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
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.
‘One of Us is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction’ Shelf Awareness
‘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
‘Without a doubt one of the best books I’ll read this year . . . a compelling work of near perfection’ Bracken MacLeod
‘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
‘It’s quite rare to find a story with this much heartbreaking impact . . . this is skilful, powerful stuff’ SciFiNow
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.
‘One of Us is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction’ Shelf Awareness
‘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
‘Without a doubt one of the best books I’ll read this year . . . a compelling work of near perfection’ Bracken MacLeod
‘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
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Reviews
Frightening in its familiarity, One of Us is a tale of human monsters and monstrous humans - authentic, brutaland inevitable
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
Will stay with you long after the book is done
One of Us is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction
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
The Girl with All The Gifts meets To Kill A Mockingbird
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
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
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
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
A tense thriller with a social conscience . . . an effective, and often moving, portrayal of injustice and prejudice
You shouldn't believe there aren't any truly original stories out there anymore, because One of Us is one of a kind
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
It's quite rare to find a story with this much heartbreaking impact . . . this is skilful, powerful stuff
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
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
Dark and disturbingly visceral . . . a worthwhile read