Reviews by Tag: rebellion

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian book that takes place in a country known as Panem, where the Capitol has oppressive control over the twelve other districts. Katniss Everdeen, a teenager from District 12, volunteers to take her sister's place in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a fight to the death involving teenagers from each district. The story follows Katniss as she experiences the Hunger Games. 

Uglies is a dystopian novel set in a society where everyone gets a mandatory cosmetic surgery at 16 to become a “Pretty.” The story follows Tally Youngblood, a 15-year-old girl eagerly waiting her transformation. However, she starts doubting the system when she meets Shay, a rebellious girl who resists the operation and introduces Tally to the Smoke, a hidden city of people who reject societal beauty standards.

Katniss and Peeta have just won the 74th Hunger Games with the help of their mentor Haymitch and want to live peacefully. However, they have become targets of the Capital due to their suicide attempt during the games that sparked rebellion in some of the Districts. Despite their efforts, more and more uprisings occur. President Snow decides to have the next Hunger Game tributes be chosen from the current ring of victors. Now Peeta and Katniss are up against their fiercest competitors yet with so much more on the line.

1984 by George Orwell is great and shows the dangers of surveillance. The book is set in a creepy dystopian future where the government has total control over everything and always watches society's every move. The main character, Winston, is a rebel who starts to question the government's authority. 

It’s 1989 and Christian Florescu lives in Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu. After the secret police blackmails Christian to be an informer and spy on Americans. In a society built by fear and mistrust, Christian wants to save his grandfather and wants to stay out of trouble so he agrees. Christian uses his connections with the Americans to spread the truth about Ceaușescu and shed light on Romanians living under his harsh rule. When the time to fight comes, Christian is one of the firsts to stand up.

To start this off, I absolutely loved this book, it's now one of my favorites ever. I’ve read the

entire shatter me series and this is by far my favorite. It continues the story of Juliette and her

journey to take down The Reestablishment. Warner is my favorite book boy out of any book I’ve

ever read. She now has to rely on him, someone she never thought she’d even like to begin

with. Along with simply such an interesting plot, the romance in this book is just to die for.

Dark Age is a dystopian science fiction novel written by Pierce Brown which follows the first

trilogy with a sequel trilogy. Following multiple perspectives we see an ex-soldier named

Ephriam stuck in a horrible situation with the Obsidians and a shift in power. Lysander au Lune,

the heir in exile to the Sovereign, becomes the very thing Darrow feared. With the Romulus

Family and Alexandrea he attempts to wage war with the Repaer. Lyra, continues to discover all

Iron Gold is a dystopian science fiction novel written by Pierce Brown which follows the first

trilogy with a sequel trilogy. Following multiple perspectives we see an ex-soldier name Ephriam

broken by grief and is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy or pay with his life.

Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the Sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor,

Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will

Red Rising is a dystopian science fiction novel written by Pierce Brown. The story is about a boy

name Darrow who is a low born miner in Mars who infiltrates the upper class Golds to free his

low class Reds from oppression. The different classes are separated into colors such as low

class colors: Red and Brown and high class colors: Gold and Silver. The only way Darrow can

become a Peerless Scarred and a Gold who can have true power is to be tested in a battle

In an alternate reality where the Axis powers won World War Two, current day United States has been taken over by Japanese forces and Europe by the Nazis. Ren Cabot is living in what would be California with only his father, bitter that the government killed his mother after she committed treason. The government is controlling of its people, and is only benefiting those in power, so there are many groups trying to undermine them. Mr.