Reviews by Category: Science Fiction

Teen Review
Book Title: War Girls, Book Cover: A black teenage girl stands in a smoky futuristic landscape wearing a robotized armor.

War Girls

By Tochi Onyebuchi
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Palak P.
Mar 9, 2021

War Girls is about 2 sisters living in a war-torn world. Their lives have been affected by violence and all they want to do is find a peaceful future together.

I couldn't finish the book because the writing style didn't engage me as much, but I would still recommend the book. 

Teen Review
Book Cover: Spiked: A multicolored eye breaks away into digital pieces and bits.

Spiked

By John McGoran
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Paranjay S.
Mar 2, 2021

It was a very thrilling book and it had an ever-changing plot. The mystery of the book kept on changing and it was very interesting to see how the story would pan out.  

Teen Review
Cover photo of the book Sky Without Stars

Sky Without Stars

By Jessica Brody
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Brooke G.
Jan 10, 2021

The best way I can describe this book is as sci-fi Les Misérables. Chantine, a thief and con-woman best compared to Éponine, lives in the Frets (slums) of Lattere, but wants nothing more than to leave. To everyone but her family she is known as Théo. Marcellus (most like Marius) is the grandson of General Bonnefaçon, the most powerful man on the planet. His father was a traitor and member of the Vangarde, a rebel group thought to be resurfacing.

Teen Review
Cover photo of the book Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Eric S.
Jan 8, 2021

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a wonderful futuristic sci-fi story about a fascist world full of censorship and where happiness is valued over thinking and free will. The book offers an insight on what our world might become, and even though the book was published in 1953, the problems that it presents are even more present today.

Teen Review
Cover photo of the book Miles Morales

Miles Morales Spider-Man

By Jason Reynolds
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Afraah H.
Dec 9, 2020

Miles Morales Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds is a fiction novel with a boy named Miles who is Spider-Man. He mourns over the recent death of his uncle, but when he goes to school, he feels his spidey senses go off. He doesn’t know why, but something is off in his very normal school. He has a crush on a girl named Alicia, but he is always distracted or can’t talk to her because he is awkward.

Teen Review
Cover photo of the book Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake

By Margaret Atwood
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Jordyn G.
Dec 8, 2020

Oryx and Crake ​is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood, the writer of ​The Handmaid’s Tale. ​Set in the post-apocalyptic future, this book follows Snowman, the last remaining human, as he navigates surviving in a world with few supplies and genetically mutated animals trying to kill him. The only ones to keep him company are a new breed of people called the Crakers, who are the creation of Snowman’s old friend Crake.

Teen Review
Cover photo of the book Scythe

Scythe

By Neal Shusterman
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Delaney M.
Nov 16, 2020

Scythe​ is the first book in ​Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series. It is young adult dystopian fiction and the story follows Citra and Rowan, two teenagers living in a futuristic world in which humanity has conquered death. Citra and Rowan’s Earth is ruled by the benevolent Thunderhead, an evolved form of the Internet that has eradicated all of the problems that once tormented humanity (war, sickness, hunger, etc.). Even death is impossible thanks to revival centers that cover the planet.

Teen Review
Rebel by Marie Lu

Rebel

By Marie Lu
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Taylor E.
Oct 5, 2020

Rebel​ is the fourth science fiction novel in Marie Lu's Legend series. It takes place a decade after ​Champion​ and illustrates Daniel and Eden Wings’ new lives in the supposed-utopia of Antarctica. Daniel learns to navigate his relationship with his now-grown brother as Eden tries to escape from his older brother's shadow. The two brothers must take on the notorious criminal Dominic Hann while challenging their government's beliefs and facing their pasts.

Staff Review

Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

By Arwen Elys Dayton
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Chris K.
Nov 18, 2019

This is top-notch science fiction--it takes today's scientific advancements and speculates how they might play out in the future, considering legal, ethical, and practical ramifications along the way. The book does this over the course of six lightly connected stories, each progressively further in the future. The topic is gene editing and body modification.

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