A review by carolyn0613
The Survival Game by Nicky Singer

5.0

Mhairi has left the Sudan while the world is in turmoil due to global climate change. She is trying to get back to Scotland, to the Isle of Arran where she was born and where her grandmother lives. She loses everything and sees death first hand. This book is terrifying. It asks such powerful questions like - what will the world be like when climate change makes everything different? What rules and laws will be put into place to prevent anarchy and will anarchy happen anyway? The book is about how a young person copes with severely traumatic events by divorcing herself from her feeling but how her human nature cannot be put aside. She knows that looking after the young boy she finds along the road is foolish but she can't help looking after him just as he can't help needing her. I would highly recommend this book for the older young adult reader and adults also. It is very well written and I couldn't put it down.