A cool and compelling ("Flavorwire") debut of a new postapocalyptic world for fans of "The Hunger Games"

On the screen and on the page, dystopian fantasies have captivated the public imagination. In "The Office of Mercy, " debut novelist Ariel Djanikian has conceived a chilling, post-apocalyptic page-turner that has earned her glowing comparisons to George Orwell and Suzanne Collins.

In America-Five, there is no suffering, hunger, or inequality. Its citizens inhabit a high-tech Utopia established after a global catastrophe known as the Storm radically altered the planet....