Reviews by Tag: dystopia

Teen Review
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Glass Sword

By Victoria Aveyard
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Aug 2, 2022

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard is fantasy fiction and the second book in the series. Mare

Borrow continues her search for others like her to join the Red Guard. She learns about her

powers, about her heart, and becomes something the Silver Court should fear. I didn’t enjoy this

book very much. There were a lot of unnecessary scenes and it was so dragged on. The

monologues were unnecessarily dramatic and the characters got on my nerves sometimes.

Teen Review
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Red Queen

By Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Aug 2, 2022

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is dystopian fiction. In a world separated by blood, silver

belonging to the elite with superpowers and red to the commoners, life for Mare Borrow seems

like it will never change. Until she finds herself leaving her poverty-filled life to work at the Silver

Palace. She soon discovers despite having red blood, she also has deadly powers. Powers that

will destroy the corrupt power. Fearing her powers, the Silvers decide to disguise her as the

Teen Review

The Giver

By Lois Lowery

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Jun 13, 2018

Twelve year old Jonas lives in what seems like an ideal world. Everything is chosen for you, where you live, who your spouse is, what your job is, because, according to the community leader, when people have the opportunity to choose, they choose wrong. But Jonas never expected his life assignment to be the Receiver. He is assigned to learn from the Giver, but not what he thinks he is going to learn. With the help of the Giver, he begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.

Teen Review

The Maze Runner

By James Dashner

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
May 30, 2017

Thomas wakes up in the lift with no memory except that of his name. He is surrounded by other boys whose memories are also gone. They are in the glade, and it is surrounded by towering stone walls that make an ever-changing and limitless maze. It is the only way out, and no one has ever gone through it alive. But then a girl arrives, the first girl ever, and she carries a terrifying message.

Teen Review

The Glittering Court

By Richelle Mead

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Aug 1, 2016

Adelaide is a countess used to getting anything she wants, but she is tired of all the comfort and luxury. So she poses as a servant to escape and start a life in the new world by going to the glittering court. It was designed to transform impoverished young women into the upper class so they can gain powerful and wealthy marriages in the colonies across the sea. She manages to keep her true identity hidden from everyone but the son of the man who created the court, who is a hiding a dangerous secret of his own.

Teen Review

Origin

By Jessica Khoury

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Jul 29, 2016

Pia grew up in a secret laboratory hidden in the rainforest, completely cut off from the outside world. She was raised by scientists to be the first of a new immortal race. But one night, she discovers a hole in the fence separating her from freedom, and sneaks out. She meets Eio, a boy from a local village, and together try to discover the dark and sinister story of her origin.

Teen Review

Delirium

By Lauren Oliver

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Jun 10, 2016

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing.



They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.



Staff Review

The Glittering Court

By Richelle Mead
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Octavia V.
Jun 4, 2016

Richelle Mead, well-known for the Vampire Academy series has written a new book, The Glittering Court. While there are no vampires or werewolves in this new fantasy series, there is instead, Adelaide, Countess of Rothford.  Adelaide lives with her grandmother and has no source of income, leaving marriage her only choice.

Teen Review

When We Wake

By Karen Healey

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
May 26, 2016

When Tegan decides to donate her body to science, she never expected to wake up 100 years later locked in a top-secret facility with no idea how she got there, or what happened on the day that was supposed to be the best of her life. The future isn’t at all what she had hoped, and when she learns the terrible secrets of the government that saved her, she must decide whether to keep her head down and try to survive, or fight for what she knows is right.

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