Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event originally created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we are all eagerly anticipating. Jill has been MIA since August of 2016. Despite this, the meme lives on….Hope you come back Jill! Until then I will be joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can’t-Wait Wednesday.
Happy Wednesday y’all! This week I’m eagerly waiting on Climate of Chaos by Cassandra Newbould. My first love is dystopian, and while it isn’t my go-to read anymore, occasionally a title will catch my eye like this one. It sounds haunting and full of adventure.
Climate of Chaos by Cassandra Newbould Published by Peachtree Teen on 2025-07-15
Length: 384 pages
An exhilarating dystopian YA recalling The Last of Us and Divergent—Climate of Chaos is a hard-hitting survival story featuring a disabled protagonist that explores the chilling effects of climate change and medical debt.
In dystopic Seattle, storms have devastated Earth’s population, a new virus is spreading, and the privileged live inside domes controlled by Aegis Corp. Healthcare is earned by hours accrued working in Aegis’s pharmaceutical factories. If you run short on hours, you’re sent to Harvest House for debt collection—a place from which no one returns.
After a storm killed seventeen-year old Fox LaRosa’s parents and left her disabled, Fox and her younger sister, Rabbit, join their fugitive aunt’s mercenary group Still Alive. Their mission is to restore the imbalance of medical access for post-storm survivors.
But when a med supply heist goes south, Rabbit is taken captive, and Still Alive refuses to rescue her. Fox must choose between duty and family, and leaves home to infiltrate Aegis’s interior domes where Rabbit is being held hostage. The more Fox learns about life in the domes, though, the more she realizes Still Alive isn’t as altruistic as they claim. In a world where everyone is out for themselves, Fox must rely on those she trusts least in order to reunite with her sister and expose those in power for who they really are.
The Hunger Games for the next generation, this read stars a disabled protagonist and explores the devastating potential of climate change left unchecked and the all-too-real consequences of outrageously expensive health insurance affecting millions today.
About Cassandra Newbould
Cassandra Newbould is the editor of the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection YA anthology Every Body Shines (Bloomsbury YA) and the author of the YA epistolary coming of age novel Things I’ll Never Say and the YA dystopian novel Climate of Chaos (Peachtree Teen). A disabled mom of three who enjoys poker, rainy days, and road trips, she’s always on the lookout for her next adventure.
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OOh interesting! I haven’t read a dystopian in awhile, but this sounds very intriguing! I will have to keep an eye on this one! I hope you love it once you get to read it!
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Same! It isn’t as popular as it was about ten or fifteen years ago. There was a big push for them. I’ve read most of those multiple times but would love to find newer ones.