Warning: There are some mild spoilers in this, so proceed at your own risk! Over the past few years, I’ve developed a bad habit as a reader – I skim ahead. I don’t do it all the time, but I do it often enough that I consciously avoided the impulse to skip forward while readingContinue reading “Golden Son”
Tag Archives: Dystopia
Red Rising
Warning: There are some mild spoilers in this, so proceed at your own risk! I follow a number of book-centric accounts on Instagram, many of which seem to be focused on young adult novels, so I’ve seen my fair share of artistic photographs highlighting the books in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising trilogy over the years.Continue reading “Red Rising”
The Dystopia Project
As just about everyone in the world is aware, the last several months have been a bit strange here in the United States. A billionaire businessman with no government experience is now the leader of the free world. The country’s venerable intelligence agencies have posited that foreign operatives worked to help put him into office.Continue reading “The Dystopia Project”
The 5th Wave (The Book)
Well, in nearly three years of blogging, this is a first: I read a book in preparation for its film adaptation, and now I’m actually afraid to see the movie because I’m not sure it can live up to the original! For the most part, I’ve always been eager to see a favorite story broughtContinue reading “The 5th Wave (The Book)”
Afterworlds
Several years ago, I devoured Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. It was around the time that I first became aware of dystopian YA novels, and the premise – civilization destroyed by a bug that eats oil and oil-based products, and enforced plastic surgery as a rite of passage – intrigued me. I loved the books, readingContinue reading “Afterworlds”
Geeky Musings from a Nerdy Girl 