In the Awaken trilogy we see a near-future world that’s taken a good thing (technology) too far. Students spend all their time online, and even attend an all Digital School (DS). Teens have little face-to-face interaction anymore, and when friends get together they still have their heads down in their various devices. (Welcome to my […]
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California is Edan Lepucki’s debut novel, and she won the jackpot when Stephen Colbert talked it up on his show. California caught my eye though because it’s a futuristic book set in my home state, and dystopias set in your own backyard just add that extra layer of creepy. California is about a marriage, a […]
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I haven’t been keeping up on series novellas in general, but when I saw this new complete collection of Four (Divergent) stories I thought I’d take a chance. The stories in this collection work together well and form a pretty interesting portrait of Tobias Eaton, aka Divergent’s leading man Four. Allegiant wasn’t my favorite book, but […]
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I read Cinder over two years ago, so I’m a little behind at reading this sequel. I kind of like waiting until I have a stockpile of sequel books to read so the cliffhangers don’t get to me too bad. And now I get to read Scarlet and Cress back to back! Fairytale retellings are […]
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I faced my fears and finally finished the Legend trilogy! I’ve had end-of-series phobia lately, and Allegiant didn’t calm my fears. I know it doesn’t make sense for dystopian series’ to wrap everything up neatly with a HEA. But as long as the conclusion makes sense with the rest of the series I’m okay. The […]
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Cinder has been getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere and I’ve had my eye on it for a while, finally deciding to pick up the audiobook. I’ve never read anything like this Sci-Fi Cinderella retelling and that appealed to me as something new and different. I’m glad I tried it because it ended […]
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