

Variant by Robison Wells tells the story of a young foster child named Benson who wins a scholarship to attend a prestigious school, only once he gets to the school he finds out that they are all trapped and are the subjects of some sinister test program. The Young Adult dystopian genre has really picked up steam over the past 18 months, so it was about time that I checked one of them out.

Synopsis sourced from the authors website () Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.īut when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape-his only real hope for survival-may be impossible. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. Benson Fisher thought a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.
