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Category: Dystopian

Nafiza Recommends: The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

Nafiza Recommends: The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

Yashaswi Kesanakurthy November 4, 2016 Book Club Month / Diversity / DystopianLeave a comment

This is so far away from a review that I’m going to link to Nafiza’s Actually Well-Thought-Out Non-Spoiler-y Review … … so you can read that if you were looking for a post that isn’t just me crying, okay? For those of you who need a refresher, or just don’t …

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The Swan Riders (Prisoners of Peace #2) by Erin Bow

Nafiza Azad September 21, 2016 Dystopian / Review / Review Copy / Science Fiction / Young AdultOne Comment

Hardcover, 384 pages Published September 20th 2016 by Margaret K. McElderry Books Source: Publisher “Drowning is quiet. The thing itself, quiet. There is thrashing, shouting, reaching for any solid thing, but that comes first, and it is not part of drowning. Once there is water in you, once the liquid …

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All the Feels: The Darkest Minds Trilogy by Alexandra Bracken

Nafiza Azad December 2, 2015 Dystopian / Review / Series/TrilogyOne Comment

Released by Disney-Hyperion Okay first, do you see the sentence made by the titles? THE DARKEST MINDS NEVER FADE IN THE AFTER LIGHT. *starry eyes* Judging from the amount of fan art around, this trilogy enjoys a lot of fame already. And it deserves the fame for reasons I will …

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Nafiza Recommends: Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey

Stephanie Dror November 30, 2015 Buddy Read / Dystopian / Review / reviews7 Comments

A more fitting title to this review is: Jasper Fford’s Shades of Grey: A Dickensian Contemporary YA Dystopia First, because this, like a Dickens novel, is a complex web, I’ll simply give you the back copy of the novel: It’s summer, it’s hot, it’s our world, but not as we know …

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Review: The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

Nafiza Azad November 2, 2015 Apocalypses / Canadian / canadian ya authors / Dystopian / Review / Review Copy16 Comments

Hardcover, 384 pages Published September 22nd 2015 by Margaret K. McElderry Books Source: Publisher I am not entirely sure what tone to take with this review. Should I default to my irreverent tone or try to be formal in the report of my experience reading this novel? I don’t know. Let’s …

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Watch the Film?: Meditation on Adaptation (The Maze Runner)

Stephanie Dror September 14, 2015 Adaptations / Critical / Discussion / Dystopian / Film Review / This Month's Theme21 Comments

I am what you would call an advocate for the book. I remember once noting this to a professor who asked me why I thought that film was a lesser media – I’m not sure I responded correctly at the time (isn’t that always the way?) and – but upon thinking …

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Review: The Raven’s Child by Thomas E. Sniegoski

Nafiza Azad August 4, 2015 Crossover / Dystopian / Graphic Novels / Review / Review Copy / Science FictionOne Comment

Paperback, 208 pages Expected publication: August 4th 2015 by InkLit Source: Publisher I am not at all familiar with Thomas E. Sniegoski so The Raven’s Child was my introduction to his style in both prose and art. I am finding it difficult to articulate my thoughts about this graphic novel …

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Of Dreams and Rust (Of Metal and Wishes #2) by Sarah Fine

Nafiza Azad August 3, 2015 Diverse / Diversity / Dystopian / Review / Review Copy2 Comments

Hardcover, 288 pages Published: August 4th 2015 by Margaret K. McElderry Books Source: Publisher I talked about the reasons you should read Of Metals and Wishes not too long ago. I hope you were convinced and have since read it and loved it. If you haven’t, there’s still time. Go …

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Not your grandmother's OZ: Dorothy Must Die Review

Stephanie Dror March 2, 2015 Dystopian / Fairytales / Retellings / Review / This Month's Theme / Young Adult7 Comments

  Let me start by saying that this book, as the title may imply, is not your grandma’s Wizard of Oz. It also, I must admit, isn’t so much a retelling as an envisioning of what Oz might be like after Baum’s original 14 Oz books. In some respects the …

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Elf on the Shelf A.K.A. Big Brother

Stephanie Dror December 16, 2014 Discussion / Dystopian / This Month's Theme9 Comments

I think I have been living in a closet for the last 9 years. I turned to my collegue at Kaleidoscope the other day and was like: “Some lady called to see if we had Elf on the Shelf, do we have that? What is that?” My collegue’s eyebrow raised and …

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