All the Feels: The Darkest Minds Trilogy by Alexandra Bracken
Released by Disney-Hyperion Okay first, do you see the sentence made by the titles? THE DARKEST MINDS NEVER FADE IN THE AFTER LIGHT. *starry eyes* Judging from the amount of […]
Category Archives: Dystopian
Nafiza Recommends: Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey
A more fitting title to this review is: Jasper Fford’s Shades of Grey: A Dickensian Contemporary YA Dystopia First, because this, like a Dickens novel, is a complex web, I’ll simply […]
Review: The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
Hardcover, 384 pages Published September 22nd 2015 by Margaret K. McElderry Books Source: Publisher I am not entirely sure what tone to take with this review. Should I default to […]
Watch the Film?: Meditation on Adaptation (The Maze Runner)
I am what you would call an advocate for the book. I remember once noting this to a professor who asked me why I thought that film was a lesser media […]
Review: The Raven’s Child by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Paperback, 208 pages Expected publication: August 4th 2015 by InkLit Source: Publisher I am not at all familiar with Thomas E. Sniegoski so The Raven’s Child was my introduction to […]
Of Dreams and Rust (Of Metal and Wishes #2) by Sarah Fine
Hardcover, 288 pages Published: August 4th 2015 by Margaret K. McElderry Books Source: Publisher I talked about the reasons you should read Of Metals and Wishes not too long ago. […]
Not your grandmother’s OZ: Dorothy Must Die Review
Let me start by saying that this book, as the title may imply, is not your grandma’s Wizard of Oz. It also, I must admit, isn’t so much a […]
Elf on the Shelf A.K.A. Big Brother
I think I have been living in a closet for the last 9 years. I turned to my collegue at Kaleidoscope the other day and was like: “Some lady called […]
The Enemy: A Picturebook About Humanity, War and Peace
The Enemy by Swedish author Davide Cali and published in Australia by @wilkinsfarago is a unique picturebook that I stumbled across while processing the special orders @KKBOttawa this past […]
Speculative Fiction: Androids and the Prometheus Myth
One of the most interesting and fun Speculative Fiction tropes is the playfulness, which can be terrifying at times, with which the genre tackles the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus, a […]
