Category: Dystopian

The Choosing Book Review

Categories: Dystopian, YAAuthor: Rachelle DekkerSeries: SeerPublisher: Tyndale PublishingPublished: 2015Personal Review: Okay, I’ll admit, I expected this series to just be another YA dystopian series. It even sounds a bit like The Selection (even though...

Scarlet Book Review

This Little Red Riding Hood retelling picks up where Cinder left off. Cinder recruits a fellow inmate and heads to France to seek out someone who might know the truth of her past. Scarlet is reeling from the police report saying her missing grandmother’s case has been closed. Suddenly, a strange street fighter shows up who may be Scarlet’s only lead to find her grandmother before it’s too late.
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A Time to Die Book Review

Categories: Dystopian, The Out of Time Series, YAAuthor: Nadine BrandesSeries: Out of TimePublisher: Enclave PublishingPublished: 2014Personal Review: I’ve read A Time to Die twice now, and, admittedly, both times I struggled to be invested in...

Skyward Book Review

Spensa Nightshade is the daughter of a coward. So it’s more than a test that keeps her out of flight school. But when her father’s old wingmate offers her a spot, her life changes. Everything she believes is challenged. In a society where “Defiance is Survival”, the only humans are survivors and their descendants from the spaceship, the Defiant. Spensa finds a crashed ship named M-Bot, and with the aid of Doomslug and childhood friend Rig, she brings it back to life. Spensa uncovers the truth about her father and what they share, but finds it may not be the curse she believes it is. Read the Review