Book Reviews: dystopian
The Pharmacist
THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE.
BUT IS IT THE PLACE OF GREATEST DANGER?
How much more is Wolfe willing to give to stay alive?
Ghosts
The heart-stopping conclusion to the highly acclaimed Voices series, where there is no place left to hide and nowhere else to run.
The Wolves of Winter
Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth.
Forget anything that doesn’t help you survive
The End of Men
The basic message is your dad is going to die, your husband is going to die, every man you've ever loved and/or slept with is going to die."
Body of Stars
No future, dear reader, can break a woman on its own
Body of Stars is an urgent read about what happens when women are objectified and violently stripped of choice - and what happens when they fight...
Noughts & Crosses
'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'
Survivors
Good and Evil are closer than ever before in a world where the voices in your head can save or slaughter you.
Q
Elena is married to one of the most powerful men in the country, she is teacher at an elite school and has two bright and beautiful daughters.
Everyone in society exists in a system where...
The Handmaid’s Tale
Offred is a Handmaid living in what once was America and is now known as The Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed.
Those in charge expect them to give themselves over to the new...
The Grace Year
In the isolated village where Tierney lives it is forbidden to talk of The Grace Year. The year when all sixteen-year-old girls are banished to release their magical hold over men. This magic causes...
My Name is Monster
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of...
The Last
Jon was on a conference in Switzerland when the world ended. Washington was hit first, then London and various other places around the world.
Jon is stranded at L’Hotel Sixieme in the middle...
Golden State
Welcome to Golden State, where the worst crime you can commit is to lie.
Laz Ratesic is a veteran of the State’s special police. Those in power rely on Laz to discover the full and final...
The Water Cure
Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the...
Curious Pursuits Occasional Writing
Curious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present.
Atwood remembers moving to...
Vox
Silence can be deafening.
Jean spends her days in almost complete silence, limited to a quota of just one hundred words a day.
No woman is able to speak over this limit without punishment by...
