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> Tag: Dystopian

This book has reached its expiration so I have taken it off my shelves.

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) by Patrick Ness

December 23, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

Not for me, I’m sure it was great. (Or was it???) I might have liked this if it was still 2009. It seriously felt like time-traveling back to when I thought I liked dystopias, and when they were everywhere. Also, I just don’t think this author is for me. I read another book from him a couple years ago and also didn’t care about it very much. This is a YA sci-fi/dystopia about a boy and his dog who live in a place where there […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, chaos walking, Dystopian, narfna, Patrick Ness, sci-fi, The Knife of Never Letting Go, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:222 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, chaos walking, Dystopian, narfna, Patrick Ness, sci-fi, The Knife of Never Letting Go, YA, Young Adult ·
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Hell is Here

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

July 12, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

There is a lot going on within the pages of Hello Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. I will say that some of the bumps for me come from three main things. First and second are the version I read was an online reader copy. This is hard for me to read in this format and there were some major editing issues with whole two to four paragraphs being literally repeated. The final is it is a first novel, and therefore has some vanity […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Andrew Joseph White, Armageddon, cults, Dystopian, glbtq, monsters, Transgender people

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:365 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Andrew Joseph White, Armageddon, cults, Dystopian, glbtq, monsters, Transgender people ·
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Dystopia never looked so wrongly beautiful

Brave New World: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

July 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Never having read the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and only having a passing knowledge of the text/story itself, I was not sure what to expect with Brave New World: A Graphic Novel. The other reviews I read on Goodreads mention the misogyny of the male characters. I am sorry to point out, but duh…. It was 1932. Do you think the author was “woke?” I am assuming he never expected women to read his works because you know, women “don’t read” and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adaptations, aldous huxley, Dystopian, Fred Fordham, genetic engineering, Passivity (Psychology), Political comics

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:345 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adaptations, aldous huxley, Dystopian, Fred Fordham, genetic engineering, Passivity (Psychology), Political comics ·
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An interesting take on the dystopian genre

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

April 13, 2022 by donttrustthe_bea 3 Comments

A reality TV show launches 12 contestants into the woods, fending for their own survival and the chance to win a huge prize. The last person able to survive alone wins the money and bragging rights. Cut off from the rest off the world, they are left to their own devices to survive in the wilderness and win the competition. The producers of the show give nicknames to each contestant; our protagonist is Zoo. She’s plucky and bookish, and has a hard time adjusting to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #plague, #suspensenovel, Alexandra Oliva, Dystopian, psychological thriller, survival

donttrustthe_bea's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #plague, #suspensenovel, Alexandra Oliva, Dystopian, psychological thriller, survival ·
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Classic book, award-winning movie…BAH.

Children of Men by P.D. James

August 27, 2021 by Bothari43 3 Comments

I remember very little about the movie except a vague impression of not liking it, so I wasn’t real excited when this came up on my library book club list. I was justified in my crankiness; this book was uuuuunpleasant. The story could have been interesting, and the thought-experiment side of things was: how the world’s population would react if there were no more children, how the end of the world can come in with a whimper instead of an apocalyptic bang, how society would […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: books made into movies, Dystopian, P.D. James, unlikeable protagonists

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: books made into movies, Dystopian, P.D. James, unlikeable protagonists ·
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World War V: Part II

The Twelve by Justin Cronin

July 2, 2021 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

The first book in this series, The Passage (my previous review), has forced me to do something I haven’t done in a long time: commit to a trilogy. A proper, lengthy, complex trilogy. I can’t remember the last time a series got its hooks into me so well. Quite a few of my cannonball reviews over the years have covered off on the first of a series. Gideon the Ninth, The Hatching, The Mummy Bloggers… None of these compelled me to continue. But Cronin’s epic vampire epidemic series […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dystopian, Justin Cronin, trilogy, vampire

Caesar's Wife's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dystopian, Justin Cronin, trilogy, vampire ·
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