Book Review: Eve

Eve by Anna Carey

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Eve has grown up in a school like orphanage since she was five and orphaned by the plague that killed nearly everyone. Now at the end of her School education and as valedictorian of her class, she eagerly awaits graduation and her trip across the School lake where she and all the other girls will go to learn how to become artists and teachers. All the teachers at the School have been teaching them that they will be an integral part of rebuilding New America. There are no boys at the school, they have been taught that men are dangerous and only want to harm them. The only man they can trust is the leader of New America and he may even come to hear Eve's valedictorian speech. But Eve's celebration revelry is cruelly shortened when she witnesses a classmate running away into the dangerous wild outside of the school walls, but not before the same girl tells her that learning an art trade is not what Eve will be doing when she graduates. Eve doesn't believe her and decides to find out for herself. What she sees is gruesome and straight out of a nightmare. All the pieces start to fall into place for Eve: why all the girls' nutrition is monitored so closely; why they must receive these strange monthly shots that make them all feel terrible; why they must be the best of the best; why they're locked inside the School. Eve escapes from her horrible nightmare of a future with help of a teacher, but she finds that the world outside the School walls is just as dangerous as she's been taught. Until someone saves her life- a boy. Can she learn to trust that he will keep her safe by any means or should she fear his motives as she's been taught her whole life? I totally loved this book. Even though there was a cliffhanger ending, I still love it for really surprising me. I eagerly await the sequel... if there is one. Oh please tell me there will be a sequel!!!!!!



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YA Dystopian Book Review: The Pledge - A new twist on dystopian fiction.

The Pledge by Kimberly Derting

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



This book is another dystopian fiction novel, but with a new twist. The book is set in some distant future land and you can't tell whether it is Europe or the United States. The countries no longer have names and neither do the cities. The classes are separated by language but everyone also speaks Englaise. When a member of a different class lapses into their class tongue other not of that class can not look at them. This is what protagonist Charlie is starting to dislike the most. Unbeknownst to anyone besides her close knit family, Charlie can understand all language and she nearly uncovers her secret when she looks at her daily and personal tormentor while she is saying terrible things about Charlie in her upper class language. The lands are now ruled by queens, the post being handed down from mother to daughter or another female of the royal blood line. But the queen of Charlie's country has no daughters or grandaughters and is looking for an heir to force her special brand of evil upon. She has been looking for Charlie, but so have the rebels, the freedom fighters. Charlie soon finds that new friends have ulterior motives and old friends lead secret lives. How can Charlie keep her secret safe and her family? Read this first installment of an awesome new dystopian fiction series and find out.



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Book Review: Cinder

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I absolutely loved this book. I have been seeing so much marketing for it, but I was very skeptical about how good it would be.This since it re-telling of Cinderella in a futuristic dystopian age was absolutely riveting. I was pleasantly surprised when I read it that apparently this book is to have three sequels.

When looking at the cover you may think Dorothy's Ruby red slippers and to be honest the story is kind of a mash-up between Cinderella - complete with a real prince- and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz trying to find her way back home. The book is set in a future China called New Beijing. Cinder is a cyborg adopted by a family five years prior, but is now the sole provider for her lazy and mean stepmother and spoiled stepsisters. Cinder is an incredibly gifted mechanic, but all of her earnings go to her family. When Cinder finds and old car in the junk yard she begins to think of desire for escape could come true, but during that same visit her stepsister and only friend, Peony, discovers that she has contracted the plague. This disease, brought to earth by the Lunars, citizens of the moon, has been ravaging the human civilization and the survival rate is virtually zero. Cinder's stepmother blames her for Peony's illness and decides to sign Cinder up for cyborg experimentation - a search for a cure as well as a gift to society. She is carted off to the Palace where she encounters the Prince Kai, heir to the empire and deeply vested in the search for a cure to the plague.

This is a pivotal moment in the book where Cinder has freedom within her grasp, only to find out that she isn't who she thinks she is and there is no place on Earth where she belongs. Read this book to find out what happens to Cinder and Prince Kai.



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