M. R. Carey's The Girl With All The Gifts

The Girl with all the Gifts has multiple setting, the novel first took place in Hotel Echo in a base in London in the future. In the past London experienced a breakdown 20 years ago where a disease named Ophiocordyceps infected almost the whole civilization. Once the breakdown occurred everything became a dystopia. The world full life with video games, money etc, turned into broken society with flesh eating creatures. M.R. Carey began the novel with Melanie and her fellow students strapped in wheelchairs having classes daily then going back into their cells. The children are numbered and classified as test subjects, and were taught about the past world. They were brought to the base as little children by sargent parks and other military men to be tested why they were able to halt the disease ophiocordyceps from taking total control over their minds. The scientists dissected a couple test subjects and brought Melane the most intelligent subject at the base to the lab. Miss Justineau began to care and love Melanie during classes and went to save her. An explosion stopped everything, then windows shattered and hungries and junkers bursted in. Miss Justineau along with Dr. Caldwell escaped to the outdoors and noticed Melanie
Although there's numerous other books that use similar world corruption diseases spreading and people suffering, and a love story but this book did have it’s originality. The novel was full of surprise attacks sad and gruesome discoveries, but Melanie was the character that had a bit of a frightening, and typical personality and added that realistic part of the fictional story. The most captivating part of the book was when Melanie had burn with a flare gun the enormous grey wall of ophiocordyceps and made the disease airborne infecting every living soul (p.398). Melanie saw the reality and that "there's no cure for the hungry plague but in the end the Plague becomes its own