Just a girl and her books
RED RISING | Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga #1) 01.28.2014 | Del Rey Rating: 5/5 stars The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day allow Mars to be a habitable planet. The Reds are making the ultimate … Continue reading Book Review: Red Rising
EDEN | Tim Lebbon 04.07.2020 | Titan Books Rating: 4/5 stars The Earth’s oceans are filled with islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all but destroyed, and countless species on the brink of extinction. The Virgin Zones have been recreated in an attempt to let nature reclaim parts of the world. These vast areas … Continue reading Book Review: Eden
BIRD BOX | Josh Malerman 03.01.2014 | Ecco Rating: 5/5 stars Five years ago something started happening. People were seeing things. Things that caused them to go mad. Things that drove them to violence and suicide. No one knows what this thing is. No one has lived to tell the tale of what it looks … Continue reading Book Review: Bird Box
NEUROMANCER (Sprawl #1) | William Gibson 07.01.2000 (first published 1984) | Ace Books Rating: 3/5 stars The matrix is a world within the world, which represents every byte of data in cyberspace. Case is an expert on the matrix and has been hailed as the sharpest data-thief in the business. The problem is, Case messed … Continue reading Book Review: Neuromancer
FAHRENHEIT 451 | Ray Bradbury 06.2012 (originally published 1953) | Simon Schuster Rating: 5/5 stars Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. This is what drives Guy Montag's life. He is a fireman, which means that his job is to respond to calls about citizens illegally housing copies of books … Continue reading Book Review: Fahrenheit 451
1984 | George Orwell First published 06.08.1949 | Signet Classics Rating: 5/5 stars The current year is 1984, or at least that’s what the newspapers indicate. Winston Smith is living in Oceania, one of the three ever-warring superstates that the world has been divided in to, in a small one-room flat and belongs to the … Continue reading Book Review: 1984
THE HANDMAID’S TALE | Margaret Atwood Anchor Books | 03.16.1998 Rating: 5/5 stars In this dystopian novel, the world as we know it has been replaced by the Republic of Gilead. The caste system of Gilead has broken women into legitimate and illegitimate groups. The legitimate women are further broken down into categories known as … Continue reading Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
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