Tag: science fiction book
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The Darkest Minds – Alexandra Bracken’s YA Dystopia I Still Thoroughly Enjoy
Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds has been one of my favourite YA dystopians for a while now. There’s something so simple and familiar about it, but it packs such a powerful punch and feels both plausible and terrifying. I liked it so much I did a high school character monologue as Ruby, and I used…
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Sci-Fi Wonder in Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is a blockbuster of a novel set on a spaceship manned by the chosen few to save humanity. Akin to a mystery whodunit, The Deep Sky opens with a bang – well, an explosion – and throws everyone on board into a frenzy as the ship is blown off-course and…
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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…