This book reminded me of The Strain (where a strange disease starts affecting a large group of people) and Gone (where all of the adults in the world mysteriously disappear). In The Enemy, everyone over the age of 16 is diseased and zombie-like with a desire for fresh meat that leads them to attack children they encounter.
Around London, groups of resourceful kids are holed up in abandoned supermarkets trying to survive. They have to find food and always be on the look out for the scary grown ups as well as take care of all of the young kids left with them. While they are surviving, the ones in charge know that the grown ups are getting smarter, the food is running out, and they're losing more and more kids.
When an outsider turns up with Polaroids of Buckingham Palace, the kids decide to risk everything and head to what they're told is a safe place. The world is not a safe place anymore, though, and Arran and Maxie, the leaders of one of the groups aren't too sure what they're heading towards.
The book is gruesome at times and long. It's the type of book that could give a meek child nightmares, but it's not all about gore as Charlie Higson also raises a lot of moral questions that the kids must work through.
I definitely recommend this book! Enjoy! Don't eat while you read it, yuck!
