Wool
Whatever you do, don’t say you want to go outside. Holsten is the sheriff of a silo; an underground city keeping its inhabitants safe from the inhospitable outside world. Those living up top see the barren landscape only through the surveillance cameras which can only…
The Glimpse
In the not too distant future, the genetic mutations for all mental illnesses have been identified. In order to protect the human race, Pure communities have been set up, where only those who pass the Pure test can live and continue their genetic heritage by…
Pandemonium
Pandemonium is the second book in Lauren Oliver’s Delirium trilogy and therefore this review will contain spoilers for the first book. You can read my review of Delirium here which will also explain a little more about the world. Last time we saw Lena, she…
The Selection
The prince of Illea needs a wife. Tradition states the king and queen must hold The Selection, a televised event in which 35 girls are whittled down to one lucky winner. She will become the future queen. America Singer is a five, in a caste…
Oryx and Crake
It started with growing human organs inside pigs – pigoons they call them – but scientists were intent on solving all of humankind’s problems with genetic engineering and the big businesses just wanted to make more money. In the future, a man now known as…
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Stories written before space travel.” “How could there have been stories about space travel before-” “The writers,” Pris said, “made it up.” Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter on a futuristic earth, destroyed by war. His bounty is for androids, escaped from colonies by killing…
The Zona
In a post-apocalyptic world razed by natural disaster, war and pestilence, the state formally known as Arizona is governed by The Church. Preachers hunt down those who have sinned and offer two choices. Death or purgatory. Lead is one such preacher. He carries out the…
Divergent
Tris lives in a world where war is no more. The citizens have been divided into factions dependent on what they thought caused the wars in the first place. They are Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, Candor and Erudite. I will warn you now, I’m going to…
The Hunger Games Trilogy
The Hunger Games gets mentioned so much on other blogs, I felt I had to see what all the fuss was about. The first book literally had me running out the door to get the rest of the trilogy (for some reason they’re not available…
Delirium
Delirium is set in a dystopian world where love has been cured in everyone over the age of eighteen. In essence, it’s a story about first love and love that endures against all odds. Whilst I enjoyed Lauren Oliver’s writing style, I felt the book…
