Others: Overwhelmingly positive Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, but mostly a forbidden love, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, romance, young adult
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Tahereh Mafi
2011 · 408 pages · 29 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveJuliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior. In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.
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Suzanne Collins
2008 · 384 pages · 48 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveThe Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its plot and character development. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien.
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Suzanne Collins
2009 · 392 pages · 13 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveAgainst all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.
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Veronica Roth
2010 · 487 pages · 16 reviews
Others: Mostly positive‘Divergent’ is the first in a trilogy of dystopian, YA novels by Veronica Roth. The book is written from Beatrice Prior’s (Tris), point of view and is written in short chapters making it easy to put down and pick up again. The story is fast paced with full on action throughout. It contains elements of humour and romance, alongside some seriously brutal scenes, especially during Tris’s initiation. There is also quite a few though provoking moments. This was one of the first YA novels that I read and I found myself hooked right through to the very last word. The scenes are described in detail giving you a clear picture and making it easy to visualise the on goings in your head. Tris can be a little moody at times and doubts herself too much, but this only adds to her good nature, fun, determined and strong personality which we see blossom throughout The ending wasn’t what I expected, thus my need to get the second book, ‘Insurgent’, straight away. I Needed to know what happened next. I surprisingly found myself enjoying Divergent much more than I first thought I would, and thus my love of YA novels began. Divergent was made into a movie back in 2014. If you have seen the film but not read the book then you are missing out on vital aspects of the plot and characters, that didn’t appear in the film. I enjoyed the film, just not as much as the book.
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Lauren Oliver
2011 · 461 pages · 8 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveThe first book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake. But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the Wilds who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?
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Sabaa Tahir
2015 · 464 pages · 36 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
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Loved itI actually had such a great time with the first one. I've missed out on these books when they were going around in the early days of YouTube, and I wasn't sure if I'm going to enjoy it, but I do love sci-fi, and I actually did really enjoy it.
Loved itI just love what she did with this series it follows Cinder who was like a cyborg and she lives in this like futuristic like alternate realit's like sci-fi Twist on fairy tales but we start off with Cinderella
Loved itcinder by marissa meyer this is the lunar chronicles ... i did really enjoy them they were a favor back in the day for good reason i would reread it again
Loved itI like this series a lie I don't think I like it as much as everyone else does but I do think it's a solid series... I liked all the books and they weren't really well executed.
Loved itI love The Lunar Chronicles so much. This is another series that I feel is very complex, and just has so much going into it.
Loved itI read it in a day when I was sick this book I mean this series is still it's all over the place... I finally did and I finally understood cuz this series is so much fun science fiction retelling of stories or fairy tales it's amazing
Loved itit comes as no surprise that one of my top five picks for futuristic books is marissa meyer's lunar chronicles series. the whole series is based off of fairy tales that have a sci-fi twist to them so this first book cinder is actually a retelling of cinderella with a cyborg
Loved itthe first book cinder was the best series opener that i read this year
Loved itit is a Sci-Fi fairy tale retelling series which so inventive and cool every single book focuses on a different fairy tale character and includes the characters from the previous book
Loved itit's sci-fi but it is a retelling of fairy tales and it's a very unique take on them... Cinder is just amazing and I just love this book so much it's probably my favorite book of the whole entire Series so far
Loved itthey're so good they're fairy tale retellings but they're sci-fi fairy tale retellings
Loved itthis is the sequel to Cinder which I also read this year but I like Scarlet a little bit more so that's like my one pick but both of them are excellent
Loved itthis is the first book in The Lunar Chronicles Scarlet being the second one this I definitely liked more than Scarlet though I love Scarlet also but there's something about Cinder I'm telling you this is my favorite one of my favorite books
Loved itthis is literally one of the best Fair retellings I've ever read
Loved itthis one just amazing I loved it so much this is probably in the top three of 2012 I loved it what I particularly love about this one is it is a retelling of Cinderella
Loved itI really love this book a whole lot if you guys don't know this is a futuristic retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella and I thought this was just so clever and so well done
