In a not too distant future, the pro-life and pro-choice camps fight each other in the Heartland War. Both sides win, but in an unorthodox way. Parents can’t abort children at conception; instead they have the option to ‘unwind’ children from the age of thirteen to eighteen. All parts of an unwound teenager are reused…
Tag: dystopian
Little Surprises
Hi all! I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day at all, other than giving my friends chocolates, etc. but today I just received the loveliest surprise! I recently entered Hachette Book Group Canada‘s giveaway for the book The Way We Fall and just found out I won! Its a YA dystopian novel, and sounds like its full of…
Review: Shatter Me
Shatter Me tells the tale of seventeen-year old Juliette, who hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. That’s because when she does, bad things happen. Like death and destruction. She was given up by her parents about four years ago to The Reestablishment, after she accidentally killed a child in a grocery store. Deemed a threat…
Review: Divergent
Veronica Roth’s debut Divergent was marketed as a new Hunger Games, as it too deals with a dystopian future, a future in which sixteen year olds make difficult decisions. Beatrice Prior is one of those sixteen year olds. She lives in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, where society has dissolved all but into five factions. Candor represents the…
Look out for Dark Inside
The other day, I had the immense pleasure of getting and reading the Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of Dark Inside, the debut YA dystopian novel by Jeyn Roberts. Told through alternating points of view of 4 teens, Dark Inside tells the story of the earth revolting against humanity and the catastrophic consequences that result from this. Dark…