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Hannah is released from prison, but she quickly realizes the outside world is just as dangerous. Your readers discuss her uncertain future, shades of grey and knowing who to trust.

We're still reading When She Woke, but we're already anticipating withdrawal. Here's our list of similar reads for when we need a dystopian fix.

If this dystopian tale were a movie, this is who we would cast. Weigh in on our choices in the comments.

In When She Woke by Hillary Jordan, we’re introduced to a world in which extremism and religious fundamentalism rule and our protagonist, Hannah Payne, has been sentenced to 16 years of “chroming” or skin colouring for the crime of having had an abortion.

As Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke opens, heroine Hannah Payne finds herself incarcerated in solitary confinement after an unusual punishment. It seems she has to wait 30 days before she is released — but, of course, there’s more to the sentence, and her story, than that…