IR VERDICT:
PANIK by Chris Selwyn James is an eerie and brilliant new take on the dystopian tale. When Rosa Newton’s adopted father mysteriously dies, she finds herself at the center of a never-ending nightmare. An epidemic of sleep-deaths soon has the entire United Kingdom under quarantine and Rosa may be at the center of it all. Suspenseful and timely with well-drawn characters, this is a haunting and riveting novel.