Feed by M.T. Anderson Reviewed by Paige Espinosa

     Titus lives in a world run by consumerism. He even has a chip, the feed, implanted in his brain that keeps him up-to-date on all the latest trends and sales at his favorite stores. All he has to do is look at something he might like and the feed automatically tells him things like it, where he can buy them, and all the great sales he could get if he buys them now! His life revolves around the feed until he goes to the moon for spring break with some friends and a hacker forces them to live without their feeds for a few days while doctors make sure they'll be safe to turn the feeds back on. During those few days, Titus becomes close with a girl named Violet, a girl who is less fortunate than he is and has a whole new take on the life they live. She got her feed later in life and neither of her parents ever got it so she is familiar with a world without it. Titus begins to question the world he lives in and even some of the things he does.
     I gave this book four out of five stars because certain passages were just insanely thought-provoking. Some of it was too unrealistic for me but other parts I could totally imagine happening in our world. Although it is another dystopian novel, it isn't just like everything else that has been popular and being turned into movies. One part I really liked was that it wasn't from the perspective of a teen girl who was head-over-heels for this new boy she met on the moon. Instead, it was from Titus's point of view and he's just your average teenage boy. He isn't looking for anything lasting or any type of commitment and overall it was a realistic teen relationship that didn't give the reader high expectations for romance in their real life outside the book. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys dystopian or sci-fi and is looking for something a little more out-of-the-box than the average dictatorship-built-on-the-ruins-of-The-United-States-of-America-until-one-girl-brings-down-the-government-to-save-the-people-while-she-falls-in-love-at-the-same-time sort of series that everyone seems to love right now.