Articles tagged with: Dystopian
Review: Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
Author: Richelle Mead
Title: Gameboard of the Gods
Release: May 2013
Series: Age of X #1
Reviewer: Mona Leigh
Source: Personal Library
Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository
In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after …
Review: Messenger by Lois Lowry
Author: Lois Lowry
Title: Messenger
Release: August 2006
Reviewer: Chrissy
Series: The Giver #3
Source: Personal library
Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository
Lois Lowry’s Messenger continues the quartet beginning with the quintessential dystopian novel, The Giver, and Gathering Blue, followed by Son.
For …
Review: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Author: Lois Lowry
Title: Gathering Blue
Release: May 2000
Reviewer: Chrissy
Series: The Giver #2
Source: Personal library
Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository
In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is …
Interview: The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse
Kitt: Hi Lisa, we’d like to welcome you to Paperback Dolls! We’re so happy to have you here.
Lisa: I’m so happy to be here! I love the Paperback Dolls site. Very cool!
Kitt: Releasing today is …
ARC review: Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
Book: Monument 14; We Don’t Die (book 1)
Author Emmy Laybourne
Release: June, 2012
Series: Monument 14
Source: Feiwel & Friends
Read Excerpt: Chapter 1
Purchase: Amazon – Barnes & Noble
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She …
Blog Tour Review and Giveaway: The Sphinx Project by Kate Hawkings
Author: Kate Hawkings
Book: The Sphinx Project
Series: The Chimaera Chronicles- Book 1
Genre: YA/Dystopian
Release: February 28th, 2012
Source: Author
Reviewer: Day
Purchase: Amazon - Smashwords
A lifetime as a lab rat, or forever on the run? For Michaela it’s not a hard …
Review: Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Book: Hollowland
Author: Amanda Hocking
Series: Hollows #1
Release: Oct 2010
Source: Kindle ebook
Reviewer: Day
Purchase: Amazon
Hollowland – the first book in the young adult dystopian series The Hollows… “This is the way the world ends – not with a …
Review: Alice In Deadland by Mainak Dhar
Book: Alice In Deadland
Author: Mainak Dhar
Release: November 2011
Source: Kindle ebook
Reviewer: Day
Purchase: Amazon Kindle
Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it’s legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new …
ARC Review: When The Sea Is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen
Book: When The Sea Is Rising Red
Author: Cat Hellisen
Release: February 2012
Source: MacMillan
Reviewer: Day
Purchase: Amazon – Barnes & Noble
In sixteen-year-old Felicita’s world, magic is strictly controlled—or so those in power like to believe. After her dearest …
Tween Review: Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Author: Moira Young
Book: Blood Red Road
Series: Dustlands (book 1)
Release: June 2011
Reviewer: Desi
Source: Personal Library
Purchase: Amazon
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been …
Zombie Week! Guest Blog and Giveaway: Aftertime Trilogy by Sophie Littlefield
AFTERTIME: LOOKING BACK
I just put the finishing touches on the final book in my AFTERTIME trilogy (HORIZON, February 2012) so it seems like a fitting moment to look back over the last two years during …
Zombie Week! Guest Review with Emma Butler and Giveaway: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Author: Isaac Marion
Book: Warm Bodies
Release: April 26, 2011
Series: Novel
Reviewer: Emma Butler
Source: Personal Library
Purchase: Amazon – Book Depository
R is a young man with an existential crisis–he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by …
Tween Review: ASHES by Ilsa J. Bick + GIVEAWAY!!!
Author: Ilsa J. Bick
Book: Ashes
Series: ASHES Trilogy-Book 1
Release: September 6, 2011
Reviewer: Desi
Purchase: Amazon – Barnes & Noble
It could happen tomorrow . . .
An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out …
Interview with author Ilsa J. Bick + GIVEAWAY
Ilsa J. Bick is an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books and novels. She has written for several long-running science fiction series, most notably Star Trek, Battletech, and Mechwarrior:Dark Age. She’s taken both Grand …
Review: ROT & RUIN by Jonathan Maberry
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Book: Rot & Ruin
Series: Benny Imura book 1
Release: December 15, 2010
Reviewer: Day
Source: Audiobook
Purchase: Audible – Barnes & Noble
In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by …
ARC Review: Legend by Marie Lu
Author: Marie Lu
Book: Legend
Release: November 29, 2011
Series: Legend Trilogy 1
Source: Book Expo America
Purchase: Barnes & Noble – IndieBound
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war …
Tween Review: Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Post Written by Doll Desilula
Author: Ann Aguirre
Book: Enclave
Release: April 12, 2011
Series: Razorland 1
Source: Personal Library
Purchase: Amazon – Book Depository
WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE In Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they …
Tween Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Post Written by Doll Desilula
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Book: Ship Breaker
Release: July 7, 2011
Series: Novel
Source: Personal Library
Purchase: Amazon – Book Depository
In America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a …
11 Reasons why you should read “Divergent” by Veronica Roth
Author: Veronica Roth
Book: Divergent
Release: May 3, 2011
Series: Divergent Trilogy 1
Source: Personal Library
Purchase: Amazon – Book Depository
In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor …
ALERT!!! Special book trailer for “ENCLAVE” by Ann Aguirre!
Available today from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group is Ann Aguirre’s debut Young Adult release, ‘Enclave‘!
In celebration of the release of ‘Enclave’, we have new Youtube book trailer for you to enjoy!
Ann Aguirre, author of …
