By Saci Lloyd
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 4 stars
In London in 2015, things aren't all that different from how they are now. 17 year old Laura hankers after her gorgeous next door neighbor and rocks out in a punk band with her friends. But since the Great Storm, the world has been forced into realizing that global warming and fossil fuel dependence are real issues and Great Britain is the first country, the model for the rest of the world, to begin "carbon rationing." Basically everyone is charged for how much energy the use individually. At first things aren't so bad, but then things go from bad to worse. Droughts and lack of water. People can't afford to fly anywhere. Laura's father decides to grow their own food and gets a pig! And Laura's family starts falling apart: her older sister gets involved in some nefarious dealings with the black market, her mother wants to join a militant women's group, and her father loses his job and wants to be a farmer. How can an ordinary teenage girl who just wants to rock out be anywhere near normal with all of this going on? The start is a tad slow as we meet all of Laura's friends and family, but once carbon rationing kicks in, the story gets dead interesting. And scary, if you think about what could happen in our world. Fans will be hooked enough by the end to want to read the sequel, The Carbon Diaries 2017.
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