Escaping Eleven

This is a bit like City of Ember, but darker. Same idea - Earth has gotten too damaged (in this case, hot) to live on, so people had to move underground. The content, though, is a bit more adult than COE. Mc is great and layered - tormented by past demons and trauma - and you follow her in her attempt at escape from the oppressive compound. Chisholm manages a disturbing look at a dystopian society where floors are arranged in a hierarchy of sorts, and Eve, the MC, is close to the bottom. There's a lot of violence in this book, and I was gripping those pages hard as I continued. Action-packed, character-oriented, exciting.