A review by zmull
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

3.0

Dystopias are everywhere in YA these days. Personally, I've avoided a lot of the bigger YA titles for that reason. Maggot Moon is different from the sprawling dystopias of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner. It's a lot smaller and more intimate. It's set in a "Germany won" type alternate history, but we don't get many details. Somebody won and now Britain is the subject of the "Motherland." The story is creaky in places - the main character is dyslexic, but that doesn't effect the story much, the later chapters are packed with coincidences and unlikely breaks - but the writing is great and, Standish is a wonderful character. Some language, but nothing a tween couldn't handle. I enjoyed it.

Oh, the illustrations are gross. I could have done without those.