Not your average dystopia: Author used reputable climate-change studies to predict what life on Earth will be like in just fifteen years if more preventative efforts are not made. Combines a realistic setting with a meticulously developed fantasy world with its own rules: The-Place-In-Between Protagonist is a young woman of colour Combines mythologies and beliefs from a variety of cultures regarding angels and Armageddon, intertwined with African folklore surrounding the special nature of identical twins With Jasmine s experiences at Beaconsfield, the school for Seers, brings the grit of "The Hunger Games " Katniss Everdeen to the magical school setting of Hogwarts "