Bøger af Peter Gulgowski

In the year 2084, Every Interaction Counts. Darrius Young's sixteenth birthday brings a harsh reality: It's time to join the Voting Game. Playing is mandatory, and each day may be his last.In this bleak future's society, citizens rate their interactions with one another. Highest scorers are members of an elite upper-class. An average score means you can keep playing.Fall below average? You are taken and killed by the government entity known only as The Bureau. Darrius has prepared his whole life for this challenge, knowing the reality he will soon face - especially after the death of his mother to the game.But despite preparation, he's losing - and not just the Game. Suddenly the people he loves are getting brutally downvoted and taken by the Bureau. It's soon clear there's a target on his back, drawn there by the Bureau itself, and Darrius has no idea why.In a frantic race against time in a society that's already sentenced him to death, can Darrius save himself and those around him before it's too late?

Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera.After Sam Collier's first love, Pierce, dies tragically, it changes everything. The only person who knew Sam as he truly was is gone.From the outside, Sam lives a life of privilege, with a famous movie-star mother and great friends, but he's living a lie, and the façade he's built is crumbling fast.As his fears grow about what his sexuality will bring about for himself, his friends, and his family, Sam can't help but wonder if it would be easier to just continue playing the role he's written for himself?But still processing the loss of Pierce and learning to live in a world without him, Sam needs to decide how he's to move forward. Does he's sink back within himself, back into the safety of the walls he's so carefully crafted? Or does he confront his fears and live his truth openly in the hopes of letting go and starting over?

Bred for entertainment, designed for war. Nick Davis awoke in a facility with no recollection of how he got there. Memories of his life before this moment are few and blurred. Now, his survival depends on his ability to shapeshift into a wolf for a televised battle to the death known as The Primal Battle.His prison-the Institute. His directive-to be a ruthless hunter. But where does humanity fit in to the merging of science and media? Desperate to unravel the mysteries of his past, Nick uncovers a sinister secret the Institute would kill to keep hidden. They think they know him down to the very code of his DNA, but true power lies in the unpredictability of freewill. To survive the Institute, he must play their game. Yet Nick knows the cost may be too high. Can he fight the animalistic rage of his genetic programming to cling to the human roots he knows exist within him? Or will what's left of his humanity be lost to the allure of violent chaos?

The Sequel to the Bestselling YA Dystopian, 'The Voting Game'One year after the events of 'The Voting Game', Jada Young, sister of Darrius, finds herself held in the heart of the Capital by the dictatorial President Sylvan Wright. For an entire year, Jada has been kept in a stasis chamber as punishment for attempting to escape and seek out her brother.But while she's been under, the country has shifted towards anarchy, and civilians are taking the Voting Game into their own hands now, turning on the Bureau and Wright himself. As a war of resistance surges against the Wright Administration and the tyrannical voting system, Jada Young attempts to save those she loves-and herself-while coping with haunting questions of identity, grief, and loss in a country that is quickly crumbling around her.