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Claire
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Apr 13, 2011 09:58AM
Hey Amy, you're right, Scored looks pretty interesting too! I like the cover, though not sure about the title in orange at the top.
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Claire wrote: "One of the best apocalyptic books I've read is Exodus by Julie Bretagna. It's really unique and beautifully written. Looking forward to getting my hands on Across the Universe, Birthmarked and Wither!"Hey Claire. I have heard great things about Exodus. I've yet to read it but it's on my TBR list....along with Wither and Birthmarked. I have however read Across the Universe and it became one of my favorite books! It was incredible...I hope you enjoy them all when you get to them.
Bethany wrote: "Claire wrote: "One of the best apocalyptic books I've read is Exodus by Julie Bretagna. It's really unique and beautifully written. Looking forward to getting my hands on Across the Universe, Birth..."I loved Exodus. I loved the different worlds it introduced us to within the same book. I didn't enjoy the next book in the series
quite as much, but I still want to read Aurora when it comes out.
Look up The Judas Syndrome series of Post-Apocalyptic fiction http://www.goodreads.com/series/57288 if you like your PA dark and brooding. In a world devastated by an apocalyptic event,
the bonds of friendship are tested in the haze of
unrelenting depression, and paranoia.
Will you know who your friends are?
Nigel S. Oglethorpe reviewed Scavenger Lord - Rhyka Hawk book 1The promise of things to come August 20, 2009
The first three chapters set up an intriguing world, one where the lessons of the past have not been heeded. Turning the post-apocalyptic scenario into a neo-historical setting aids the narrative, as we accept the bizarre and unusual, with science and history intermingling.
Each character has an agenda, and the brutal world we find ourselves in reminds one of a cross between The Terminator and the Spanish Inquisition. A cross between fantasy and science fiction serves this story well, as we accept things that would otherwise need a great deal of explanation. The Hawkwing, for example, is an extrapolation of science that would only work in a world that has achieved a high level of technology, not one that has never risen to that level.
Within these pages is political intrigue, personal dramas and enough blood and gore to let the reader know just how fierce a world we have landed in, and our journey will be harsh and cruel, and uplifting.
This is rewarding reading.
Hey, my new dystopian just released a few weeks early, just letting everyone know! Eden I hope you'll check it out!
Keary, that book sounds AMAZING!! I'm so excited to read it. It sounds really different from anything I've read. Can't wait to check it out!!
Enclave (the razorland Series 1) was super good! After plague has destroyed most life people have built enclaves below ground to survive. One girl decides not to follow their ideals and is sent Topside where supposedly no one can survive. I absolutely loved this book and can't wait for the 2nd.
Keary! Holy crap that sounds amazing! The cover is seriously awesome! I can't wait to try it out! :) And congrats of the book release!
Carey, I also really liked Enclave. I can't wait for the second one!
Carey, I also really liked Enclave. I can't wait for the second one!
I'm so excited we're reading Enclave in July. Gives me an excellent excuse to read it again so soon! ;)Blood Red Road was also pretty great! I kept trying to read it with a Texas accent, couldn't help myself! lol! Much easier to do out loud than in your head. ;)
Keary....Totally agree with Amy. That looks SOOOO good! Will definitely get that one!
You know, I really want to read Blood Red Road (it was one of my most anticipated this year), but I've heard that when the characters talk there's no quotations. I'm so weird and I think that would really bug me while I was reading it. What did you think about that Carey?
I've been reading Blood Red Road slowly while reading some others so I'm not very far in yet but I honestly hadn't even noticed there were no quotations! The book is written like the MC has a really, really bad southern accent and the words are actually spelled like they would sound, "yer" for example. It takes some getting used to and I'm afraid it's going to get old soon.
I highly recommend
. It is a great book with a really good storyline.
Amy, I did have a little trouble without the quotes. I had to go back a few words at first...but I did get used to it. I've been reading Graceling and it's the same way, but it's easier now. :)I kept trying to read with an accent in my head and that was hard. Once I lost the accent it was much easier. If you want to read with the accent do it aloud..,,much easier and fun.
I hate books that have accents! It drives me crazy, which is why I haven't gotten around to Bumped yet (I'm sorry don't hate me!). I think I'll move Blood Red Road further down on my list though haha.
Amanda, I'm gonna read Eden as soon as the summer's over and I can have my Nook again! I'm so excited! I love that cover!
Amanda, I'm gonna read Eden as soon as the summer's over and I can have my Nook again! I'm so excited! I love that cover!
Amy, save yourself the mental and, possibly physical, pain and DO NOT read Bumped. Don't even look at it or else some of it's awfulness might reach you and rub off.
I did the exact same thing. It just didn't grab me. But i'll probably give it another go at some point.
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve was a really cool new take on PA. The first book in a series that revolves around cities that have up-rooted and travel the wastelands on huge tracks in hope of devouring each other. I can't find the second book so I have yet to move forward in the series. But, it was a good start!
That series sounds pretty interesting Chris. Thanks!
All these books seem really interesting but can someone tell me which ones are the first person view? I can't seem to get into third person literature, but I'm trying :-) Thanks!
Amanda wrote: "All these books seem really interesting but can someone tell me which ones are the first person view? I can't seem to get into third person literature, but I'm trying :-) Thanks!"
Yeah, I have that problem too. I seem to have gotten used to 3rd person reading with The Maze Runner and its sequels. It is a really good book and getting into it was no problem for me. If you want a 1st person book and haven't read The Hunger Games, that would be my recommendation.
Hunger Games is 1st person, present tense. Katniss's point of view. Very awesome series!
Yes, I've read the hunger games and lived them, its first person. I'll try the maze runner, thanks!
Bethany wrote: "I did the exact same thing. It just didn't grab me. But i'll probably give it another go at some point."I tried this probably 4 times until I stuck with it for awhile and ended up absolutely loving this series. It starts really slow, but I think it is worth the effort to get into it.
My cousin wrote this short story in the Second person....Oh man. It was so hard to read. My brain got so confused...lol. I love first person and I think I love third too, but second...that will drive a person crazy.
Amanda, The maze runner is incedible...I don't think you'll mind the narrative. You get so into the story and the MC...it really sucks you in.
Ouwh, I read a couple of stories like that, in second person. I thought it was different, yeah, but I really liked it! It's pretty cool and unique in my opinion.
2nd person? Never read any 2nd person books. How exactly does that work?
It would be like "You walk down the street. You stop when you hear someone calling your name. You turn around."It's just odd, because you're reading it and thinking..."No, I'm not. I'm sitting here reading."
"No, I'm not. I'm sitting here reading." Hahaha that's funny. Um... I can't imagine reading the host or hunger games in 2nd person.... Are there any popular 2nd person books??
I used to read the adventure ones where you get to chose what happens next, I know RL Stine did some Goosebumps ones. Those are second person.
Graciela wrote: ""No, I'm not. I'm sitting here reading." Hahaha that's funny. Um... I can't imagine reading the host or hunger games in 2nd person.... Are there any popular 2nd person books??"You is the only one that I can remember reading. It was ok.
Chris wrote: " Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve was a really cool new take on PA. The first book in a series that revolves around cities that have up-rooted and travel the wastelan..."This series is really good. It has four books, and each of them advance the series in a meaningful way. The thing that I like best is that Reeve does not try to make a perfect ending to any of them. In the interlocking plot filled with different characters, some bad stuff will happen. That adds a sense of realism and adventure.
When I was in high school, I loved a book called House of Stairs. It's not really dystopian per se (not like "The Hunger Games"), but it is about some teens who are used in a very bizzare scientific experiment involving psychological torture.
Lol, I had read House of Stairs last month, and was going to suggest it at some point. It is dystopian, just not blatantly, there are only small mentions of the over-all state of society. If anything, it may be one of the first YA dystopian novels. It was very good, and had a great ending as well. Highly suggested! It was a little difficult to track down a copy of it though..
If you read Zombies vs. Unicorns, there are some stories that are written in 2nd. I personally like 1st or 2nd person because I think it helps me connect to the MC and stuff $x
Alli wrote: "If you read Zombies vs. Unicorns, there are some stories that are written in 2nd. I personally like 1st or 2nd person because I think it helps me connect to the MC and stuff $x"I feel the same. You feel like you know the characters more personally...
Michelle and Chris, I agree about House of Stairs. I found it randomly at the library and read it. A few months later, I found it again in a book sale and had to get a copy for myself. There were some references to a dystopian society like how Blossom (at least I think that it was Blossom) was bragging about how her family was wealthy enough to afford real meat. She said it in a way that made it sound like there was widespred poverty and/or foot shortages. Of course, for something like the House of Stairs experience to happen to those five, they would have to be living in a dystopian society.
J_Byrd wrote: "I got the sample of 
and I just couldn't get through the 1st chapter. I'm a Southern girl and I don't mind reading Southern accents cause I understa..."I listened to this in audio book format and the reader was English. He did it in an almost Cockney style and it was amazing. The book is absolutely awesome and definitely worth checking out. I couldn't even imagine it in a Southern Accent
Loved THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy,
and
. Didn't like
.
Melodie wrote: "Loved THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy, and. Didn't like ."I agree. I didn't really dislike matched...it just didn't grip me, ya know. Wither is amazing!
Graciela wrote: "Alli wrote: "If you read Zombies vs. Unicorns, there are some stories that are written in 2nd. I personally like 1st or 2nd person because I think it helps me connect to the MC and stuff $x"I fee..."
speaking of 2nd person, i'm reading Blink Caution and the narrating is a little odd, but one of the perspectives is 2nd...
I'm in the midst of reading
and it's so good! I'm having trouble putting it down!
Shari wrote: "I'm in the midst of reading and it's so good! I'm having trouble putting it down!"Shari, I just read that one last week...SOOOOOO amazing!!! I loved it! It WAS hard to put down :)
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