The audio version of this was great. I've been quite lucky lately in that, all bar one, of my recent listens have had great narration, Ship Breaker was no exception. 
 This is a gritty, bleak kind of book but that's how I like my dystopians to roll,so I thought this was much, much better than the kind of "cutesy" dystopians that seem to be popular at the moment (I'm looking at you, Matched). 
 The book is set in a post-oil world where climate change has wrecked havoc on the environment and "city killer" storms are the new norm for the US coast line, sea levels have risen and the polar ice caps have melted. Ship breakers scavenge for recyclable materials on the huge wrecks of ships that litter the coastline - life for the ship breaker crews is bleak and tough and the ones who survive are those who are "lucky and smart". The gap between rich "swanks" and the poor is impossibly large, and they profit off the blood and sweat of the crews working the wrecks. 
 The futuristic setting is dystopian but at the same time incredibly plausible - there was a chilling realism to the kind of future that might one day be a reality if the climate change folks are correct in their predictions. In saying that though, I never felt I was being "preached at" and while there was an obvious environmental message, it was subtly done and only added to the world building rather than detracting from it. The idea that young, uneducated children have to work long hours in dangerous conditions to eek out a pitiful living doesn't seem that "futuristic" when you consider that in some parts of the world this is already a reality. So yes, it's futuristic and dystopian, but in a 'less is more' type way that gives it a stunning impact. 
 8+hr of audio in 4 days is pretty quick for me - a gripping and thought provoking read. The best of my YA reads this year so far.