The 100 by Kass Morgan

Many of people have heard of the highly popular television series, the 100, on the CW. Yet what not everybody knows is that this series is inspired by a book series by Kass Morgan. I absolutely LOVE the show, so I decided I had to read the book series. Here's a brief run down of the book.

300 years ago Earth was destroyed in a total nuclear war, an event now known as the Cataclysm. A portion of the population was able to escape to space stations that would sustain the human population for hundreds of years. Unfortunately supplies is running low quicker than was anticipated, to account for this there are population laws prohibiting families from having children without getting preapproval or having more than 1 child. Criminals are also handled more strictly. If a person over the age of 18 commits a crime they are executed, if someone commits a crime under the age of 18 they are put in confinement until they can be retried at 18. However the retrials hardly ever end with a pardon.  This is pretty much the most that can be done to help balance out the waning supplies. because by their calculations Earth is still too radioactive to sustain human life. 

However when times become desperate the leaders decide to collection 100 underaged criminals to send to Earth. They will track their vitals to help determine if Earth is survivable. However they are wrong in one assumption... that they will be the only humans on Earth.

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