pickLord of the Flies meets The Handmaid's Tale, this powerfully gripping YA dystopian story kept me hooked from beginning to end. Tierney, a strong and brave female protagonist, fights against injustice and for what she believes. The Grace Year is a must read!
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pickIts a dystopian novel, for that note it does a good job of painting a bleak alternative society. It‘s descriptive of certain scenes which definitely impacted me. A non filtered book, with an ending that accompanies the bleakness of the setting itself.
pickNot what I was expecting from the description and marketing, but the production quality is great and it‘s addictive as hell.
so-so⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was on the #ToB2025 long list, but it didn‘t really work for me. Set in dystopian version of the Great Lakes, MC and his wife take in a boarder who it turns out is on the run and that sets off a chain of unfortunate events. My issue was that it wasn‘t clear what the MC wanted other than avoiding bad things, so not really compelling. And the resolution seemed to come out of nowhere. 🤷♀️ Glad when it was done.
pickThis is a story of grief, horror, trauma and madness. I could not stop thinking through this book that we could slide down the slippery slope of denial that nothing will ever get that bad. That we have people and laws and blah, blah, blah that would never let this happen to us in the real world. But so much has happened in 2024 that I never thought I would be watching. That I‘m constantly shaking my head at in disbelief.
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pickIn the Maze Runner we have Thomas, who finds himself in the Glade with other boys who have been sent there. They have been trying to find a way to get out of the maze but have not yet succeeded. Later we see Thomas go in the maze at night to help his injured friends. Readers of the Divergent series will love this book. Filled with mystery and suspense.This book is told in 3rd person limited POV using pronouns such as he/they/she. Good Book. :)
pickScythe by Neal Shusterman is a very twisted book about the workings of a “perfect”, world. It follows Rowan Damisch and Citra Terranova, in a world with no natural death, controlled by an all knowing AI. The two children that have very opposite lives in the beginning of the of the book, but have a similar experience when both have a run in with a Scythe, the only thing that is able to kill in this world, that encounter would lead to them meeting.
