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YA version of The Bachelor masquerading as dystopian fiction

January 27, 2016 by Even Stevens 15 Comments

CBR8 Reviews 2-4   Let’s just get this out of the way up front: these books are dumb. I tried, I really did, but man are they painful. So be warned, there shall be ranting and SPOILERS ahead (I’ll mark where the spoilers start later in the post.) America Singer (yes, that’s a name) is a seventeen-year-old girl, the middle of five children of a family of artists. In their society, the family is considered a Five. Ones are the most privileged – the Royal […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR8, EvenStevens, kiera cass, the elite, the one, the selection

A Very Dystopian Bachelor-meets-The Civil War

January 4, 2015 by ModernLove 3 Comments

A little free advice from me to you: never work a job with crazy hours. You’ll forever mess up your sleep cycles and end up battling insomnia for years. On the upside, that allows you to blow through three books over the course of two very bad nights at your parents house! The Selection is a series set sometime after World War 4 in a nation that’s the combination of Canada, the United States, and Latin America. They banded together to fight off China and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dystopian YA novels, kiera cass, modernlove, the elite, the one, the selection, YA lit, Young Adult

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