Fable for the End of the World

Ava Reid has stunned us in the realms of both adult (The Wolf and the Woodsman) and young adult fiction (A Study in Drowning), so it’s with bated breath that we wait for Fable for the End of the World, which sees Reid pivot to a dystopian setting. This new world she presents is eerily familiar: A single corporation named Caerus controls a society based on huge amounts of debt accumulated by ordinary people. Inesa, whose mother is one of those people, finds out she’s condemned to the Lamb’s Gauntlet, a livestreamed bloodbath in which Inesa will be pursued by an assassin specially conditioned to show no mercy.