This is a book that actually had me shuddering at the idea of the ‘Peter Pan’ project- in the middle of the day. The Hunted was something I didn’t really have high expectations for when I first got it- just another dystopian story which had an okay sounding blurb. WHERE HAVE YOU GUYS GONE?Īs it turns out, at the back of charity book stores. Most of you were genuinely creepy and yet very relatable, and I could really see something that happened in your stories happening to the society we have in the future. Someone who has plans of his own.Īn open letter to dystopians written before ‘The Dystopocalypse'(and yes, that’s what I’m calling it): While Tarrin faces a difficult dilemma, someone is watching him. He would grow old inside the body of a young boy. By having “The Peter Pan,” Tarrin would stay a boy forever.

But as Tarrin gets older, Deet is keen to secure his future, and his interest in “The Peter Pan” operation grows. They pay for Tarrin to play in their houses, and they pretend he’s their child for an hour or two. When Deet wins Tarrin in a card game he rents him out to childless couples. Children have become a commodity: they are bought and sold, won and lost, and worst of all, are hunted by the “kiddernappers” keen to make a quick buck on a big sale. If you start to grow white hair you can dye it depending on the colour of your hair.In a future world where people live to be 150, humans have paid the price for their longer lives-the cost being their fertility. You can pull skin to make it tighter and you could add an eyebrow if you wanted to.Īlso there is dye. You have 'Botox' which freezes your faces nerves so you don't have wrinkles for 3-4 hours. You have anti-ageing creams that reduce wrinkles. 5% of the people who are in developed countries have already had a plastic surgery or are going to have a plastic surgery. Another reason why The Hunted is a book for our times because in this world are obsessed with looking oung. He says that there are too many 'grown-ups' in the world they need children. Also in the book it said that Deet is exaggerating that growing up is really bad when it really isn't that bad. Whatever is happening doesn't mean that is going to happen in the future. On the other hand people say that this book is Just trying to scare us. On the hall it said that she was 55 years old and still dancing and at the end of the book it said she was 125 years old and still dancing.Īlso the books alked how people take the Anti-ageing pills to keep them young and 40 years old is the oldest you will get. Virginia Two shoes who has taken the PP implant.

At the beginning of the book Tarrin comes across Ms.

The Hunted by Alex Shearer