‘Annihilation’ – Jeff VanderMeer 2014
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Annihilation is a very creepy novel. With a pervading atmosphere of tension it really gets under your skin. It doesn’t stand well on its...
‘Obernewtyn’ – Isobelle Carmody 1987
My rating: 3 of 5 stars A typical dystopian coming-of-age novel, without any real surprises. As the first book in a very long series it sets the stage for furth...
‘Soft Apocalypse’ Will McIntosh 2011
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars A slow burning novel about the end of the world. I didn’t think I was going to like this book. I thought it was going to be slow and d...
Banned Books Week
It’s Banned Books week this week. And while I couldn’t count the number of times a book was removed from my clutching hands as a child because I was reading at ...
‘Rook’ – Shannon Cameron 2015
Rook by Sharon Cameron My rating: 2.5 stars In a sentence: Awkward French revolution homage. Rook has a really interesting premise: a post-apocalyptic world whe...
‘Zone One’ – Colson Whitehead 2011
Zone One by Colson Whitehead My rating: 3 of 5 stars The best I can give this book is a half-hearted ‘meh’. I’m so disappointed, because I do ...
‘Station Eleven’ – Emily St. John Mandel 2014
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Station Eleven reminds us of the fragility of our lives, our society and our civilization. How, ...
‘Romy (2250 Saga, #1)’ – Nirina Stone 2015
Romy is an interesting YA dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic imagining of Earth in 2255. The story is told by protagonist Romy, who is a teenager born in...
‘Feed’ – M. T. Anderson 2002
It is the future: Where American children have an electronic ‘feed’ implanted into their brain. This embedded machine grows with them and takes over...
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ – Margaret Atwood 1985.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale‘ was a bit of a disappointment for me. I came across the title in a list of the best dystopian novels and I thought the p...