Saturday, October 27, 2018

My Week in Review: 10/20/18-10/27/18


Another week has come and gone - this year is flying right on by.  My husband and I are looking forward to seeing our lil grandbaby dressed for Halloween - our daughter is keeping his costume secret - but I am hoping for Jack Jack from The Incredibles.  :)  

This weeks theme: Dystopian

Swann by Ryan Schow - 4 Stars ****


A troubled young girl is about to become the world’s most lethal science experiment.


You’re not your body. You’re not your hair, your eyes or your nose. You’re not your diseases, your anxieties or your psychosis. Welcome to Astor Academy where, with the right genetic coding and a stomach for the impossible, you can change not only your body, but the very course of your life. The first step is the DNA...

The Extraction List by Renee N Meland - 4 Stars ****


In an America where parenting is regulated by the federal government, fifteen-year-old Riley Crane assumed she would never be taken from her home, and with good reason: her mother Claire had designed the criteria that parents must live by in order to keep their children.


But a simple knock at the door one evening proves her wrong.

Now on the run, Riley and Claire must rely on Cain Foley, a gifted killer who is as handsome as he is dangerous, to get them out of America alive. But when they discover what's really happening beneath the government's surface, they realize that escaping the country is only part of their problem. Together, they figure out that a killer can save a life, and a mother can damn a nation.

Eden by G C Julien - 4 Stars ****


In 2064, America faced the deadliest gender war in history.

Civilization collapsed and millions died.

Now, in a daunting world without electricity or societal laws, revered feminist leader Eve Malum guides surviving women to safety—to a utopian haven known as Eden—where she forbids the male gender from ever entering.

But as Eve struggles to keep her paradise safe, the line between good and evil begins to blur.

The Child Thief by Bella Forrest - 3 Stars ***


They call her Robin Hood...

In a world where we have government of the rich by the rich for the rich, one girl decides to fight back.

America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. This, combined with the breakdown of families and marriages has led to huge economic and societal burdens. A fractured and divided America ushers in an authoritarian government that promises to solve all these problems in one stroke with a radical solution.

Welcome to the CRAS: the Child Redistribution Adoption System. Also known as the cure for America’s failing economy, it is the bane of nineteen-year-old Robin Sylvone’s existence.

Under the System, millions of poor families have their children taken and given to the rich. And as a single teen mother, Robin fell within the scope of the scheme and lost her baby two years ago. After being forced to drop out of school and become a factory worker in order to support herself, she doesn’t see much light in her future—or hold any hope of seeing her child again.

Until she stumbles upon a group of misfits who share her frustrations and desire for change. They are an underground movement of thieves, stealing children back from the rich and returning them to the poor.

Robin will do anything to find her daughter, even if it means tangling with a government that has zero tolerance for rebellion.

Even when the penalty is death.

Better by N E French - 3 Stars ***


A post-apocalyptic America is overrun by super-virulent-viruses. The surviving population is controlled by pharmaceutical superpowers. Citizens are assigned a grade based on their perceived value to the technocracy. This grade determines the quality of healthcare they receive. Many citizens are forced into slavery merely to get the minimum cover needed to survive. Few dare to oppose the system and those that do don’t tend to live long.

It’s Faith’s seventeenth birthday and it seems, so far, her attempts to buck the system have failed: she couldn’t complete her resistance mission, got infected and getting cured got her in debt to the very corporation she’d been trying to attack. Now she’s forced to work for the enemy. If that wasn’t bad enough she’s been relocated to a high-risk compound where her chances of survival are slim...

"I’m out of time.”

But things are not quite as they seem. Faith is playing a long game and others are about to get played. In particular, a certain Forces Commander…

“He reckons he’s got me all figured out. He has no clue.”

Or perhaps Faith has underestimated her adversary. It wouldn't be the first time...

I hope you see something you'd like to read.  :)

As always, thanks for stopping by.

~Michelle

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