My sister read J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and then wrote a rave review on Goodreads, calling it a sort of adult version of Lord of the Flies, set in a high-rise apartment building. I was sufficiently intrigued, and also by the news of a recent movie adaptation. You know me—read book first, then watch movie. So I read this book in an evening, while The Chancellor was under an enormous time crunch to get his final grades in. I decided to stay up and be supportive, […]
What’s my niche again?
I’d recently celebrated discovering my romance niche–dystopian romance. A Google search led me to some recommendations for Maddy Barone’s “After the Crash” series, so I plunked down the $0.00 to give it a try. What.the.hell. Carla survived a plane crash, but when she and another woman walk to find help they find themselves offered as prizes in a “Bride Fight” because the plane actually crashed 50 years into the future after nuclear war and meteors destroyed the planet which somehow means there are no women. So […]
A peace that blacked yer eye, a peace that split yer lip.
I think there are two ways to write about a not-first book in a series or trilogy: short and vague to avoid spoilers, or not. I’m gonna go with door number two because it’s impossible to write about this book without spoiling the resolution to the cliffhanger at the end of book one. So… If you don’t want to know what happens to Viola… … … … … … … … … Still here? Okay. This book just […]
Catch My Disease
This was plugged by @SmartBitches on Twitter as a dystopian romance. Well, I’m working on finding my niche in romance and dystopian is my bag, baby! This seemed like a good match for me with only $1.99 at stake. Lynne Harmony is a CDC scientist and the most prominent survivor of the Scorpius bacterium, a plague that has turned most of the population into corpses or “Rippers”, who turn into primal killers or tactical psychopaths with the change in their brain chemistry. Lynne got away […]
Ow, Todd?
This book had me like… And then… And then… You know what part. If you’ve read it, you know exactly what part that one is for, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. I don’t even know what to say about this book. It is everything I’m not usually into: there are fantasy elements, long journeys through rough terrain, a boy and his dog – fine stuff, but totally not my thing. It somehow wound up on my Goodreads to-read list, and I […]
You have to do more than just change the terminology to make it sound new
This is the first in a YA trilogy, and I’m not moving on to book two. I feel like that’s the whole review, but I’ll elaborate 🙂 My book club friend recommended this based on my love of dystopian stories. Kayla and Mishalla are teenage GENs (Genetically Engineered Nonhumans) living on a future planet colonized after Earth became uninhabitable. Those who could afford and fund the move have become the planet’s top class, the Trueborn. The Lowborn were brought along for their inital indentured servitude. […]
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