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'The knife of never letting go' by Patrick Ness.
Showing posts with label Dystopia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dystopia. Show all posts
Book Week Scotland
Celebrate Book Week Scotland this week in the Library. Come along and read some futuristic books from the displays. Talk about the books you are reading with your friends, your family, your teachers and Mrs Aitken.
My daily reading challenge
Accepting my own challenge I decided to read the first and last chapters of 'Mortal Engines' by Philip Reeve. It has been a few years since I read it although I saw the movie a couple of months ago. Forgot how much I enjoyed the book and may read the whole novel again. I do remember being drawn in by the first sentence:
"It was a dark blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."
Intriguing!
This is a brilliant dystopian/steampunk adventure story where cities move across the globe on caterpillar tracks hunting each other for power, resources and supplies. The heroes Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw are brave and resourceful as they need to be against their enemies the Stalkers and Shrike in particular. This is a thrilling fast-paced adventure which is thoroughly enjoyable.
"It was a dark blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."
Intriguing!
This is a brilliant dystopian/steampunk adventure story where cities move across the globe on caterpillar tracks hunting each other for power, resources and supplies. The heroes Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw are brave and resourceful as they need to be against their enemies the Stalkers and Shrike in particular. This is a thrilling fast-paced adventure which is thoroughly enjoyable.
Book of the week - 4th November
'After tomorrow' by Gillian Cross is an exciting, page-turning, dystopian novel set in a time when the banks have crashed and there is not enough food to go round and as it says on the cover "survival is your only option". It is quite a frightening novel because it makes you think about what it would be like if this actually happened. So if you like a read that is excting and thought-provoking you should try this one.
From the blurb : "What if you woke up tomorrow and everything had changed? Money is worthless. Your friends are gone. Armed robbers roam the streets. No one is safe. For Matt and his little brother, Taco, that nightmare is a reality. Their only hope of survival is to escape through the Channel Tunnel. But danger waits on the other side...Stay or go. What would you do?"
From the blurb : "What if you woke up tomorrow and everything had changed? Money is worthless. Your friends are gone. Armed robbers roam the streets. No one is safe. For Matt and his little brother, Taco, that nightmare is a reality. Their only hope of survival is to escape through the Channel Tunnel. But danger waits on the other side...Stay or go. What would you do?"
Book of the week - 30th September
'Tomorrow, when the war began' is the first in the series of books by John Marsden. The books are set in an Australia which has been invaded and occupied by a foreign power. The book centres around a band of teenagers who return from a camping trip to find that their families have been taken and decide not to surrender but to fight. Thus they embark on a guerrilla war against the enemy soldiers. The story is narrated by Ellie one of the teenagers. This series of books has been recognised as the most popular teen fiction series ever written in Australia.
Book of the week - 20th May
"Adam Wilson has betrayed his friend. Now he must face the consequences." And the consequence for Adam, in this brilliant book "The Traitors" by Tom Becker, is to spend 247 years in the Dial. Agents from the Dial, a penal colony in a notime dimension, kidnap Adam and imprison him in a very Colditz-like world. How can Adam escape when everyone in the Dial is a traitor? Who can he trust to help him?
This is a chilling adventure which will appeal to readers who like books set in a dystopian world and those who like books with plents of twists and turns.
This is a chilling adventure which will appeal to readers who like books set in a dystopian world and those who like books with plents of twists and turns.
Book of the week - 13th May
An excellent book, Willo is a wonderful voice. A must read for all who loved the Chaos walking trilogy by Patrick Ness.
From the book jacket "An unforgetable adventure story that will quicken your pulse and chill you to the bone."
"Harrowing but hopeful" Observer.
Book of the week 28th January
Maggot Moon is set in a dystopian society- a 1950s England where the race to be first to the moon is all important to the ruling regime. It is a harsh society where people regularly disappear and those who are different are treated at best with disdain, more often with violence. The hero of the book -Standish Treadwell has different coloured eyes AND is dyslexic and so is bullied mercileesly at school until a new boy -Hector- befriends him. But it is not long before Hector disappears. Standish and his grandfather decide that they will take a stand against the harsh regime.
Maggot moon is an excellent book.The chapters are short and the pace fast-moving. Although the book is touching it is full of black humour and pulls no punches in its depiction of the harsh reality of the regime and the Motherland. An imaginative and compelling book.
Book of the week - 21st January 2013
The first book of the week - 'Slated' by Teri Terry - will appeal to those of you who enjoyed 'The hunger games' and who like thrillers.
'Slated' is set in a dystopian Britain where young criminals are given a second chance to live different lives and become good citizens - by having their memories and personalities completely erased. Kyla has been slated and sent to live with a new family. She has to relearn everything - that knives are sharp, how to wash dished even how to stroke a cat. But Kyla suffers from nightmares in which she remembers things from her past life, this makes her different from all the others who have been slated and makes her a danger to the state. Who can Kyla trust and will she ever find out the truth?
This book is a real page turner, it is exciting and creepy but there is humour and romance too (just!). The only thing that disappoints is the ending which leaves many questions unanswered - a sure sign that there is another book to follow ('Fractured' is due out in April 2013!).
'Slated' is set in a dystopian Britain where young criminals are given a second chance to live different lives and become good citizens - by having their memories and personalities completely erased. Kyla has been slated and sent to live with a new family. She has to relearn everything - that knives are sharp, how to wash dished even how to stroke a cat. But Kyla suffers from nightmares in which she remembers things from her past life, this makes her different from all the others who have been slated and makes her a danger to the state. Who can Kyla trust and will she ever find out the truth?
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