All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai. Tom lives a aimless, drifting life in 2016. Except it's not our 2016, it's the 2016 that would exist if humans had discovered unlimited clean energy decades ago. In other words: the sci-fi future we've dreamed of since the 1950's,...
Book Review: Gilded Cage
Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts #1) by Vic James. In this alternate England, magically-gifted aristocrats (Equals) rule the land, while ungifted commoners must serve 10 years as slaves. When in their life they serve those 10 years is up to them, but serve it they must. Not...
Book Review: Raven Song
Raven Song (Inoki's Game #1) by I.A. Ashcroft. A century from now, after widespread nuclear war, humanity is clinging to a few select cities, kept safe from radiation by their force field domes. Jackson is a legit businessman and less-legit smuggler, making ends meet...
Book Review: Ninth City Burning
Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black. The future of Earth is threatened when an alien race suddenly appears in our skies, wielding a power we have no idea how to combat. Cities disappear, and it looks like the planet will be overrun, when humanity discovers it can...
Book Review: The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin. Sometime far, far in the future, Earth (is it Earth?) is unrecognizable. The landmasses have shifted into one big, volatile continent called The Stillness. Every few centuries or so, this volatility causes a...
Book Review: The Fire Sermon
The Fire Sermon (The Fire Sermon, #1) by Francesca Haig. Some time in the future, a nuclear disaster devastates the world. 400 years after that, humanity is still around but has been changed drastically. Every single person is born with a twin. One twin comes out...
Book Review: Time Zero
Time Zero (#1) by Carolyn Cohagan. Time Zero is the first YA novel by Austin author Carolyn Cohagan. It tells the story of Mina, a fifteen year old girl living inside the walls of what was once Manhattan, under the rule of an extremist religious regime. Her world is...
Book Review: Hunter
Hunter (Hunter #1) by Mercedes Lackey. Imagine if the separation between fiction and reality wavered, and terrible things from myth and legend and imagination suddenly came to life. This is the setup of the world of Hunter, which is our world several centuries in the...
Book Review: The Girl With All the Gifts
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey. “Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her....
Book Review: The Forest of Hands & Teeth
The Forest of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan. I picked up this book because it was billed as an interesting YA dystopia. And it is a dystopia, but it's also a zombie book. Not my usual wheelhouse, but I went with it. The Forest of Hands & Teeth is the story of Mary, a...
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