October 13, 2011 – 2:13 pm
The Book: Pretties, by Scott Westerfeld
The Story: This is going to have little spoilers from Uglies, so if you haven’t read it yet and plan to, do yourself a favor and do not read on!
So, this book starts with Tally being pretty… and really confused. She doesn’t remember clearly what happened to her to [...]
October 4, 2011 – 9:16 am
The Book: Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
The Story: Lena Holoway is born into a world that has been totally rid of love. Scientists in the past realized that love was the reason that there was hurt, pain, anger, jealousy, and passion in the world. They developed a surgery that successfully rid people of Love and [...]
The Book: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
The Story: YAYADN (Yet Another Young Adult Dystopian Novel)
The little “twist” here is that after you turn 16, each person is made “Pretty” through some crazy surgery. Until then, you live as an Ugly. Tally is just a handful of days away from turning sixteen and going in for her [...]
February 22, 2011 – 3:54 pm
The Book: Anthem, by Ayn Rand
The Story: This is a dystopian story about a world where the word “I” has been entirely eliminated. Even the thought of individuality is gone and everyone goes about pretty much like drones.
One kid, Equality ###, can see the craziness in this and realizes that something is wrong, but he [...]
August 28, 2010 – 9:19 am
The Book: Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
A Note: I don’t usually fangirl and I don’t usually buy books the day they are released. I did both in this time around and I’m oh, so glad. Because I love the Hunger Games series and I want you to read it too, I want to give you this [...]
The Book: The Running Man, by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
The Story: The year is 2025 and everything is kind of in shambles. Ben Richards’ young daughter has come down with the flu and because they can’t afford to take her to the doctor, it is just getting worse and worse. America is pretty much obsessed with [...]
The Book: The World Made By Hand, by James Howard Kunstler
The Story: This book takes place in the not-so-distant future, maybe 30 years or so. There have been wars and a couple flu pandemics and things have fallen apart. Electricity is gone and there’s no cars or trucks. Communication has fizzled to nothing. Pretty much, [...]
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Nothing gets me quite like a good dystopian book. I love them. The Giver was, I’m sure, the first book that I read that was set in another version of the future, and I was in love with it.
The thing that Lois Lowry did perfectly was give us just enough information [...]