The Affinity Bridge is good - Victorian/steampunk. Author is ... Mann?
'Bring On The Night'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sox, I would recommend Oryx and Crake and Handmaid's Tale. Same dystopian fun....no zombies!
Sox, she might like Nancy Farmer's House of the Scorpion, which is a YA-adventure dystopian variation on Never Let Me Go -- and written first.
Possibly the Midnighters trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. Or, for that matter, his Uglies/Pretties/Specials trilogy.
Sox,
I am going to deviate slightly from the recommendations above and suggest the Suarez novels: Daemon and Freedom (tm).
The pacing of the novels is pretty quick and Suarez's novels have that kind of dystopian feel to them that the Hunger Games does.
Buffista authors MUST try to arrange signing at Joseph-Beth in Cincinnati if possible. It is a) awesome and b) a short walk from my house. (I faced out Cold Kiss in the YA section this morning.)
Aw, thank you, flea!
Also, hey! You're in Cincinnati! Yay!
I'd recommend Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters.
I just read erin's interview with the author of Cold Kiss Are we keeping it a secret>
- and I want to laugh because every time we talk about the book I get the song "Honey" by The Hush Sound stuck in my head and it IS named after the song.
Erin, Amy, loved the interview!