Has anyone here ever read any of Scott Westerfeld's books? I recently found this author around a month ago and I instantly fell in love with his books.
His most recent series, the "Leviathan" series, is an alternate universe retelling of WWI where the Central Powers (the "Clankers") have such advanced machinery in their airships, tanks, etc. and the Entente powers (the "Darwinists") have progressed so much with genetics that they can create artificial animals for war. It's a great read for anyone who likes History, and if you don't, it's still a really good adventure story since you're following the point of views of an Austrian prince on the run from his own country and a British girl pretending to be a boy so she can enlist in the Air Service.
His "Uglies" series is set in a dystopian future (after our current one epic fails) where society is practically perfect and everyone is required to go through cosmetic surgery to turn "Pretty" when they turn sixteen years old. The books are about the people who don't want to undergo the surgery and the whole conspiracy about how the government keeps control of everyone.
The "Peeps" series, which is just two books, is basically about vampires. But not the magical, mystical, turning into bats kind. In these books, everything is explained scientifically with parasites and there's underground secret organizations which keep everything in check to prepare for something more dangerous than those who are "parasite positive."
And one of his earlier books, "So Yesterday," is about popular trends among people and how they actually get started and spread. It has stuff about the media, marketing, and (again) some unknown organizations, which is always cool, I think.
Anyways, I recommend people read his books, or at least give one of them a try. They've very easy to get into and Westerfeld has this way of making everything seems so real and interesting.
