Tag: Dystopia

Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Posted July 19, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Series: The Hunger Games #0 Published by Scholastic on May 19, 2020 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 517 Format: Hardback Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute… and must weigh his need […]

Review: Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

Posted April 21, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth Series: The Chosen Ones #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 7, 2020 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 400 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice – catastrophic events known as Drains – leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. The Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal . . . for everyone but them. After all, what do you do when you’re the most famous people on Earth, your only education was in magical destruction, and your purpose in life is now fulfilled? Of all the five, Sloane has had the hardest time […]

Review: Nine by Zach Hines

Posted March 1, 2019 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Nine by Zach Hines

Nine by Zach Hines Published by HarperTeen on August 7, 2018 Genres: Dystopia, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 360 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to burn straight through them. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning lives, but Julian is determined to stay on his first for as long as he can. His mother, the ultimate cautionary tale, burned through her first eight in just a few years, and Julian has no intention of succumbing to the debilitating rebirth sickness that she inflicted on herself. But the regime has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation, and Julian realizes that he’s going to have to burn at some point—especially when he becomes a target for Nicholas, the manipulative leader of the Burners, the school’s suicide club. And when Julian eventually succumbs, he uncovers suspicious gaps in the rebirth system that […]

Blog Tour / Review: Anarchy by Megan DeVos

Posted August 27, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Anarchy by Megan DeVos

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Anarchy by Megan DeVos Series: Anarchy #2 Published by Orion on 23 August 2018 Genres: Dystopia, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 400 Format: Arc, E-Arc Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads THIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER. ‘The Hunger Games meets The Road’ MTV The world is different now. There are no rules, no governments, and no guarantees that you’ll be saved. Rival factions have taken over, fighting each other for survival with no loyalty to anyone but their own. At 21, Hayden has taken over Blackwing and is one of the youngest leaders in the area. In protecting his camp from starvation, raids from other factions and the threat of being kidnapped, he has enough to worry about before he finds Grace. The daughter of the head of the rival camp Greystone, she is slow to trust anyone, much less the leader of those she has […]

Review: The New World by Scott K. Andrews

Posted March 6, 2018 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The New World by Scott K. Andrews

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The New World by Scott K. Andrews Series: Timebomb Trilogy #3 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on July 27th 2017 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 352 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Kaz, Dora and Jana – three people from three different time periods, brought together by forces they don’t understand, given powers they can barely comprehend. Their powers have brought them together. And nothing – not war, not betrayal, and not even death – has been able to tear them apart. And now, after everything they’ve been through, they’re about to find the bonds of their friendship tested in ways they could never have imagined. This is the stunning, epic conclusion to the incredible story begun in TimeBomb and continued in Second Lives a story of friendship, of love, and of learning what it means to be extraordinary. The New World was a such a […]