Reviews by Category: Fiction

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

Genre: Southern Gothic Fiction

Brave New World, an iconic dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley has been called prophetic

for its striking predictions of the future—a future that our society seems to be approaching. Gone

are the notions of love and connections; humans are bred in labs for specific societal roles,

citizens are told to pursue relationships with multiple people solely for pleasure, and the

totalitarian government controls the populace via soma, a dangerous drug with seemingly no side

In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez highlights the

complexities of human relationships, feelings, and fate. This story follows the Buendia family

through the generations covering both the founding and ruin of the town of Macondo,

juxtaposing the growth and decay of the town with the family. Macondo starts isolated from other

forces but slowly grows and becomes synonymous with fortune and power. Similarly, the

In the Historical Fiction novel Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert details the tumultuous

love story between a depressed wife and an unparalleled loving husband to highlight the evil

inherent in the upper classes. The wife, Madame Bovary, is a farm girl who has spent her life

trying to be a maiden like in her childhood fairy tales and marries a country doctor, Mister

Bovary, who will do anything to satisfy her. This includes doing whatever she wants, being

In the historical fiction novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte tells the life story of the

Vengeful Heathcliff as retold by a guest of his estate after being informed by a maid who cared

for Catherine Earnshaw from young till now. A young man of unknown origins, Heathcliff grows

up the apple of his adopted father's eye, leaving the man's actual children belligerent. An

immoral relationship unwittingly forms between Heathcliff and his sister, Catherin Earnshaw, one

In the fictional novel Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of a serial killer with a

very twisted obsession. The main character, who calls himself Q_ P_, is a seemingly average

thirty-one-year-old male from a well-to-do family that attends college; however, beneath the

surface, he is a convicted sex offender who dreams of possessing an utterly subservient dark,

strong man. To accomplish this dream, he spends the book experimenting with different

In the play-write A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry describes the resulting conflicts

in a poor African American family, the Youngers, who suddenly acquire a large sum of money:

10,000 dollars in life insurance from their father's death. Within the Younger family household,

we have Lena younger, her two adult children Beneatha and Walter, Walter's wife Ruth, and her

and Walter's child, Travis. Together they are staying in a small two-bedroom apartment that

Awkward is about a middle schooler named Pepi Torres. She has three cardinal rules for

surviving middle school. On her first day as the new kid at Berrybrook Middle School, she

makes a mistake that haunts her for the next few months. When she has to get science

tutoring with a boy that she can barely talk to, she must face her fears and break the awkward

silence, I like this book because it is relatable to middle schoolers. My favorite part is when Pepi

It’s the 1970s, in a small Ohio town. The Lee family’s daughter, Lydia, is dead.

Proof that a good series can always take a sharp downhill turn, the Mockingjay book truly

depresses me being the final book of the series. With so much potential lost on this book, it is

hard for me to recommend it. The book might not have been so bad had it been followed up with

the hunger games of the capital’s children, its ending truly sucked. Also, I will never forgive the

author for having killed off the best character in the series, Finnick. I wouldn’t recommend this