Clik here to view.
“For the Win” by Cory Doctorow (Tor, 2010)
For anyone who’s ever played an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) game like World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online, you know it can be a lot of fun. What you might not know is that if you’re...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Test” by William Sleator (Amulet, 2008)
William Sleator has been thrilling and terrifying readers for decades now with the fantastic, unbelievable, and at times scarily close to a possible doomed future, as he does with his latest book,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Maze Runner” by James Dashner (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009)
One of the first books of the dystopian tsunami to come out shortly after The Hunger Games, this first book in the trilogy is an interesting one that does a great job of exploring what a bunch of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2010)
In the sequel to the interesting Maze Runner, James Dashner takes readers to a whole new level of his dystopian world, where they get to see what’s going on beyond the “maze,” and what state the world...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Death Cure” by James Dashner (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2011)
In the final book of the Maze Runner trilogy, James Dashner brings readers once again to a whole new part of his world, this time a look into an actual city outside of WICKED, where readers finally...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Pirate Cinema” by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen, 2012)
After the success of Little Brother and For the Win, bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns with another young adult novel about an oppressed youth who is looking to change the world for the better...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Homeland” by Cory Doctorow (Tor, 2013)
After the traumatic events of the bestselling Little Brother, Cory Doctorow returns with the sequel in Homeland, as Marcus Yallow finds himself in a harsh world where the government is always watching...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Stranger” by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown (Viking Books for Young...
Welcome to the quaint little town of Las Anclas, located on the edge of nowhere. It’s a frontier town with high surrounding walls and guards constantly watching from above. Interestingly, those guards...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Hostage” by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith (Book View Cafe, 2015)
The second book in The Change quartet, after Stranger, does a lot of things the second book in the series should: opening the world further, adding some new and interesting characters, and raising the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Calamity” by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, 2016)
In the final volume of the Reckoners trilogy things come to a close in an acceptable way. The group has been pushed to the brink and while they’re licking their wounds, they must face their former...
View Article