Rating: 4 out of 5 starsMost people dismissed the reports on the news. But they became too frequent; they became too real. And soon it was happening to people we knew. Then the Internet died. The televisions and radios went silent.…
Review Minis: The Library Edition
I’ve been on a bit of a library kick lately. Every time I go back to return my books, I decide to “just have a look” to see if there’s anything in that I like the look of and then…
Audiobook Mini Reviews: YA Dystopia and Fantasy
Legend by Marie Lu I’d heard a lot of great things about this series so I was pretty keen when I saw the first in the series on my library’s audiobook list. It was a disappointment. If you’ve read any…
Review: ‘Allegiant’ by Veronica Roth
**SPOILER ALERT – ALLEGIANT is the last in the Divergent series so there may be spoilers for earlier books in the series (although I have kept things spoiler free so far as this book goes). If you haven’t read the…
Review: ‘The Bone Season’ by Samantha Shannon
Rating: 4 out of 5 starsThe year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking…
Review: ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone…
Review: ‘The Uninvited’ by Liz Jensen
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsA seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling…
Some Thoughts on ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins
Despite the frenzy of enthusiasm surrounding this trilogy, it’s taken me ages to get around to starting it. I think it was just a bit of scepticism on my part that any series could be quite as good as the…
Review: ‘Pure’ by Julianna Baggott
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an…
Review: ‘Divergent’ by Veronica Roth
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where…