All Titus and his friends wanted was a fun spring break on the moon. But they got more than they bargained for. While at a club, a hacker attacks them, and they all end up spending time in the hospital, their feeds gone, nothing to do for days. This is when Titus meets Violet. Violet, the smart girl, trying to defy the feed and it's ability to categorize people's desires. Violet makes Titus think about what life would be like without the feed, without the constant information flow going in your head. Feed is a novel that will make readers think about their life now, and realize that the future that Anderson describes isn't too far away from our own.

Feed is a definitely a quick read, and pulls you in right at the beginning. While the language takes a little getting used to (the slang that they use in the future), Anderson does a good job of getting the reader engaged right away. I also found the concept fascinating, especially since it is a world that we could easily slip into. A world where we are constantly bombarded with information, advertisements, news, etc. Except instead of it being our phones, computers, tablet, etc., the computer is inside our brain. And once it is there, it is almost impossible to get out. Anderson does a good job of making the reader think about the future, and while the novel could be considered a satire on our own society, it still gives you chills to think about the fact that we aren't too far away from this kind of future ourselves.

I think this book would be great to pair with another classic dystopian novel, like 1984 or Brave New World, because it would create an interesting discussion in a classroom about dystopian fiction. I also think, since The Hunger Games was published, and maybe even before that, the market for young adult distopian fiction is big, and any of these books would be great to pair with a dystopian classic. As a teacher, you could even create dystopian reading groups, with each group reading a dystopian novel, and then leading a discussion about these kinds of futures and whether or not they could actually happen. Overall, Feed is a great novel, one that kids will definitely enjoy.