The Infinite Sea

“The mechanized world had died. earthquakes and tsunamis had obliterated coasts, and plague had consumed billions.” Rick Yancey’s book The Infinite Sea was a nail biting story of the apocalypse. Cassie and Sam have been running from the others since Evan Walker infiltrated and blew up an alien military installation called Camp Haven. When they left the military installation they

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The Last Star

  For the past few months, Cassie Sullivan has had to endure a visit from aliens called the Others, who are intent on wiping out the population of the Earth, to claim it for themselves.  She has had to overcome the plagues and tsunamis that the Others have pushed onto the Earth, and has had to watch over 7 billion people

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The Chrysalids

Katherine Gardner The Chrysalids John Wyndham Review Set millennia after a nuclear holocaust, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a fascinating novel about a highly religious communities’ attempt to prevent mutation and evolution from occurring while struggling against a type of mutation they cannot detect. Their beliefs are based off of the Old Testament and a novel called Nicholases Repentances.

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Wool

Wool by Hugh Howey is a suspenseful and adventurous tale about Jules, a mechanic who cares greatly about her job.  The story takes place in a silo.  However, this is not your ordinary silo; this one is 144 stories and beneath the earth.  This silo was built as a bunker for important people in the U.S. government.  However, everyone’s memory

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The Giver

In The Giver, Lois Lowry creates an emotionless world, where there is no conflict, no love, no pain and where no one ever starves. But when a boy named Jonas is given feelings, affection, and anger, he sets out to change the world. Lois Lowry’s The Giver made me philosophize about the meaning of life in ways that I never

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A Matter of Days

In the novel A Matter of Days, Amber Kizer tells an exciting and suspenseful survival story filled with difficult choices and practical survival techniques.  From page one, Kizer hooked me into the world of destruction and deprivation of the BluStar pandemic, a deadly disease. Nadia and Rabbit, the two main characters, survived the pandemic, but unfortunately, their mother died.  Their

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