Tag: science fiction book series
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In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken Breaks My Heart
It all comes down to this. The actions and decisions in Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds Trilogy have culminated in In the Afterlight, an action-packed finale rife with high tension, character conflicts, and a main character perspective so layered and different you can’t help but feel for Ruby in the midst of this mounting finale.…
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer May Be My Favourite Lunar Chronicles Book
Continuing with Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles, Scarlet takes us away from the Eastern Commonwealth and drops us into rural France, giving us another side of Princess Selene’s story. I love the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, and seeing it brought into a sci-fi space context made it all the more enjoyable. In fact, it…
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The Multiple Universes of Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You
It’s been a while since I picked up Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You, the first book in the series. It is a YA sci-fi with multiverses and a romantic subplot, so it has a lot going on. But I’m a sucker for multiple dimensions and historical fiction flare, as we all know at…
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Alexandra Bracken’s YA Sci-Fi Dystopian Continues with Never Fade
Back into my regular week schedule and I’ve kicked it off with Alexandra Bracken’s Never Fade, the second book in The Darkest Minds series. Having read The Darkest Minds during my Spooktober reads, I didn’t get to fully immerse myself into the story world and layers of the narrative, but reading Never Fade has given…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is My Kind of Fairytale Retelling
When it comes to fairytale retellings, I hold Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in high favour. When I first read Cinder I was astounded by the brilliance of this story world and the simple what if? What if we took Cinderella and made it sci-fi? What if we took cinderella and made her a cyborg? What…
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The Bone Season – Sci-Fi Paranormal Supernatural Dystopian? I am Intrigued, Samantha Shannon
I have seen Samantha Shannon’s name all over bookish social media for her duology The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night. I knew that there was a series she wrote before these books though, and with a little digging, I found The Bone Season. Upon picking it up, it had…
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Cosy Sci-Fi with Becky Chambers The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet
With cosy fantasy becoming more popular and sought after, I have started to label things as “cosy” within their respective genres. Becky Chambers’s The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet is one of those books that radiates good vibes and feels like a cosy sci-fi – something I find very difficult to pull off.…
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Catching Fire’s Impact Cannot Be Understated
Catching Fire marks the point of no return within the Hunger Games timeline, with the uprisings in Districts 3, 4, 8 and 11 changing the course of the narrative, not only as pivotal moments in the world of Panem but pivotal moments in Katniss’s life, where she is now stepping into the adult world within…
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Reading The Hunger Games as an Adult: How Different is the Reading Experience?
I wasn’t expecting much, in all honesty. I thought that, though it has been a decade or more since I last read the series, The Hunger Games would be a great YA dystopian book with a strong nostalgia for a time in the past, but it wouldn’t be able to surpass its YA title to…