(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …
In future New Zealand, wealthy immigrants are creating chaos as they flee climate change, generally driving up food prices, illegally buying land and creating a huge divide between the have and have nots. In this environment, Alice, a 30 year old just one IQ point short of genius and who is generally an underachieving in …
On Prospera, a futuristic island, Proctor is a Ferryman, a man whose job it is to take inhabitants at the end of their 120 year lifespan, to the ferry which takes then to another island for reiteration. It's a mystery what that is exactly. Today, Proctor has been called to the home of his adoptive …
Set in the near future, when a huge solar storm knocks out the worlds power grids and technology, two adult siblings face the problem with very different perspectives. Aubrey, a woman with a dead beat ex who left her to raise his teen from a previous relationship, stays put and finds community, while her brother, …
In a dystopian future, 2044, the world is a crumbling mess, with most people incredibly poor. Wade Watts is an orphaned teen who essentially lives online via the OASIS, a virtual reality construct that's more appealing than the real world. He attends high school there and has one friend, who shares his love of a …
Crimson Ash is a gripping new young adult thriller and we have one copy to give away! In a dark dystopian future, a disease has ravaged the world, killing off a large part of the population. In response, one man has taken over. He uses mind control to create emotionless soldiers who capture the remaining …
The second book about Winter Agent Juno, this was sent to me by the author to review and share with you. When Juno is informed of the death of her estranged mother through suicide, she is compelled to head back to her home town to find out what happened and face the past. But no …
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I didn't expect to like or enjoy this book as much as I did. I like Animal Farm, though I read it a long time ago, and I found Down and Out In Paris and London to be starkly real and surprisingly descriptive of modern life, but I'm also aware that as much as Orwell …
In this compelling and violent Young Adult novel, Kincaid has managed to create a world that imaginatively different, but in some ways scarily similar to our own. In a Dystopian future, technology has ground to a stand still, with a religious dark age enacted by the ruling elite who use religion to keep the massive …
I like Alice Hoffman books, with their subtle magic, darkness and everyday lives. I had forgotten that she also wrote young adult fiction, so when I ordered this one, it looked more like a novella. It's a sad book, the story of a 15 year old girl, whose parents and sister head into the city …
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