Who here is a fan of dystopian books like hunger games, divergent, and maze runner? Any other favs?
Who here is a fan of dystopian books like hunger games, divergent, and maze runner? Any other favs?
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Liked all three till that last book.
I loved the park service by Ryan Winfield
Never heard of that?
Its been about 5 years since i read it but i loved it. Its basically humans are ruining the earth so scientists are returning the earth to the way it was before humans, using dna to even bring back extinct animals and when they’re done they are going to kill off the remaining humans and themselves and leave earth to mother nature.
@Michelle sounds cool.
Dystopias for life. I really like The lunar chronicles, shatter me, and an ember in the ashes. And ready player one. AND the wolf by wolf trilogy which is a bit more alternate history/universe/fantasy but with strong dystopia vibes.
Just went to see ready player one movie. I had read the wonderful book.
Ember in the ashes is amazing!
Some of my favs are handmaids tale, blade runner, and divergent.
Earth Girl series by Janet Edwards
My fav! I have The Hunger Games, Lockdown, Matched and Ashfall series.
Me too!
Article 5 is a great one!
I read that a few months ago!
What is Article 5 about
Article 5 is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by Kristen Simmons. The book was published in January 2012 by Tor Teen and is the first installment in a trilogy. The novel tells the story of Ember Miller and Chase Jennings, two teenagers who are on the run from the government in a post-War dystopian America.[1] It was followed by two sequels titled Breaking Point and Three.
A war has torn through the United States, leading to the implementing of the Federal Bureau of Reformation (FBR) and a re-writing of the Bill of Rights, leaving the Moral Statues. The FBR have started a new war, and that’s a war on sex. Women that break Article 5 and have children out of wedlock are taken away and imprisoned, as is the case with Ember Miller’s mother. The FBR have captured the two of them and have sent Ember to the Girls Reformatory and Rehabilitation Center of West Virginia. There Ember attempts and fails to escape, only succeeding when her old love interest Chase intervenes and runs away with her to Virginia. There they have plans to go to a safehouse where Ember’s mom is supposedly located, only to find the man who was supposed to transport them has been shot by the FBR. Before he dies, he tells the two teens of a carrier in West Virginia that could help them.
The two later learn of a carrier and underground system in their former hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, which prompts them to return in the hopes of finding escape. As they grow closer to the town, they learn that the town is in the process of being closed off to create a base for the FBR and that the streets are full of people that are either homeless or working for the FBR. Chase and Ember are separated when a scuffle for food turns into a riot and Ember is grabbed by Sean Banks, a member of the local resistance.
Ember informs Sean of her time at the reformatory and of his girlfriend Rebecca that was placed there with her. Ember then learns that the ones who break Article 5 are killed and that Chase had been forced to kill her mother. She later leaves the Resistance hideout and is captured and taken to the Knoxville Detention Center. A member of the center, Tucker Morris, attempts to bribe Ember into revealing Chase’s location, to which she refuses. As punishment Ember is placed on cleaning duty and tolerates Tucker’s harassment of her in order to learn news of her friend Rebecca, who has been placed in a Chicago reformatory. Ember begins to make plans to escape, which are interrupted due to Chase being captured and brought to the detention center. She must then find a way to save them both. The two manage to escape and the book ends with Ember and Chase lying together on the roof of the Resistance’s headquarters.
Matched series, Delirium deries, Feed by M.T Anderson
Do you review those type of books
@Mike yes, they are my favorites! Dystopian and post-apocalyptic are always my go to reads.
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I love dystopian books. ???
What are your favorites
The Maze Runner, Divergent, Hunger Games, Delirium and Legend series.
@Deborah all my favs too, have you read the handmaid’s tale
I haven’t.
Delirium -lauren oliver
Me!!!
Huge Dystopia fan! Try Ready Player One, Giver Quartet, Ender’s Game, Shadowchildren Sequence, Lunar Chronicles, Selection series etc!
Are you a writer of such?
Of Dystopia?
@Mahnoor yeah
@Mike God i would love too! Sadly, I’ve only written a couple or so short stories so far ?. But who knows what the future holds!
What about you?
Obernewtyn ❤
What’s that
@Mike a series by Isobelle Carmody
Blood Red Road, it’s awesome ??
Who wrote that story
Moira Young ?
@Kristina what’s it about
Scythe – BRILLIANT.
Yes, the 100 by Kass morgan….TV series pretty good also…*Edit * also wayward pines–another book turned 2 season TV show, decently done…forget authors name and enders game…books are…wow
I love the 100 I just recently heard about wayward Pines is that a full season already done
I saw the first 2 seasons, not sure if season 3 is ready now for pines …..the 100 has been re-uppped, so season 5 should be released soon 🙂
@Polly what is Wayward Pines about
Kk
Series and book…..the premise is how our interests and greed has caused so much damage we literally kill ourselves and almost our planet.mAll signs show complete annihilation imminent. One guy (partially) really smart with a good heart, super rich of course….he seems the issues, tries to get the world to take him serio u sly but basically laughs a time him for his doom day attitude….he starts preparing the last living human colony to repopulate the earth…..but somewhere along the way his heart feeds his ego which of c ourselves makes him a sweet unassuming tyrant. …..now his theory is right….the earth throws a serious amaggedon like catastrophic series of events……….part of his prepping are the thousands of cryogenic pods he has modified to actually work like they should,….2 unknown “losers” figured it out…….plan plan plan…drama drama drama…..enter scene one…The only question you need to answer is. How do you populate a planet with enough general genetic family members, technology, me c ice etc if your going to put only a few thousand into cryotasis…and his community.
Holy shit PIE, a round for the commitment and loyalty that they have. Plz. Now the question…..How do you responsibly offer these crazy earth is gonna can it tonight speech to save as any fid…his cornet cuts causing million dollars in restitution for victims. …Enough of a spoiler alert? Hint watch the 1st season at least first of Wayward pines TV series….it almost dies with its bookkk
The 5th wave.
My favourite is Delirium by Lauren Oliver (and then I think it’s Pandemonium?)
Ive read the maze runner books and the hunger games (which I adored) and watched the films as well as the divergent films.
The delirium, pandemonium, and requiem Trilogy is really good!
@Krystal what’s delirium about
@Mike it’s been a few years since I read it. I read all three books in three days though! It’s about the government trying cure love in society and pair people up based on social class, personalities, intelligence, and so forth. The main character stars off hating love and wanting to get the cure, but then she meets a guy and everything changes. There’s people who live outside the fenced in societies controlled by the government, they’re called Invalids. They are preparing a resistance to over throw the government. I personally really liked it! Goodreads could probably help you out with reading the book descriptions. You should check them out!
Divergent
Maze runner
Shatter me
What’s Shatter Me about
@Mike a girl whose touch kills and lives in an asylum in a post apocaliptic world transforms from a scared little girl in a powerful and feared woman. Also, a cute love triangle and an impressive love story between the girl and her love interest
Shatter Me and The Darkest Minds
Shatter me and matched are great! Also falling kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes! And courtlight series by terah edun. And love a girl of fire and thorns! And anything by Sara j Maas!
Yeah good ones
What’s that about?
@Mike
The first book is free on amazon kindle,
KAHAYATLE. My name is Bryn Mathis. I’m seventeen years old, and I live in a neighborhood outside of Orlando, Florida. I’m here alone because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all the other adults in the world. I’m almost out of food, and the gangs of kids that roam around my town are getting more vicious by the day. It’s time for me to leave and find another place to live … a place where I can find food and shelter … a place where they won’t be able to find me. Alone, it might have been possible, but now I’ve got company. I’m worried that I don’t have what it takes to get from here to my final destination, and I have no idea what might be waiting for me when I get there.
Content Warning: Mild violence and some foul language. Meant for older Young Adult readers (age 15+). This book is in the Dark Science Fiction / Horror / Post-Apocalyptic genres, featuring teen characters only.
Love me some Elle Casey, her war of the fae series was beyond hilarious and engaging.
Enclave
Enclave (The Razorland Trilogy)
Enclave (The Razorland Trilogy)
by Ann Aguirre – TV Tie-In
Paperback
I just finished reading The Testing Trilogy. It was pretty good!!
Lunar chronicles love it…
They are on my to read list. Are the any good?
Yes…i like all of them
Yes!!!! Love these too!!
What are those about
Angel fall is a very good 3 book series. I recommend it
Don’t discount Terra nova….LOVED it but was a TV series, if there’s a book series plz share it. I’d love to read it
I liked The Wall series
What was that about
@Mike People are divided into separate living sections of varying wealth, educational and vocational opportunities. When the government passes a law limiting the number of children a single household is allowed to have, the heroine is sent away after her mother becomes pregnant with a second child. And I’m sorry the title of the first book was The Woodlands
@Lani i like the sound of such
@Mike It’s actually free for Prime members on Amazon! Nothing wrong with trying out a free book! The only thing you have to waste is your time, and it features an INCREDIBLY strong heroine!
@Lani I’m on it
Maze ? my fav
Yeah those are awesome
The Uglies
Massive dystopian fan here! Try Matched series, And the giver quartet
I read the first book of matched my junior year in high school. I wasn’t aware that it was a series so the following year I was helping out in the library and realized it was one! I haven’t picked it back up yet though. I kinda got the end spoiled for me though by someone talking about. I will read them one day! Glad to know they’re good!
@Krystal it’s definitely worth reading even if you do know the ending! I hope you manage to pick it up ?
Thanks! Me too now!
Angelfall by Susan Ee is a really good one, it’s dystopian/fantasy/apocalyptic trilogy in a world where Angels are the bad guys. Does involve some stereotypical romance.
Red Rising series by Pierce Brown would probably be great for you. It’s got the flavor of The Hunger Games, inspired in parts from Greek mythology. It’s a sci fi/dystopia set in the far future and takes place on different planets and in space. Its got a revolution/war theme. It’s quite violent and seems to be written a bit more to a male audience. MC is a male.
Edit to added another-
Unwound series by Neal Shusterman (I think that’s the author). Kind of sci fi, very dystopian. Male MC. In the future parents can have their kids “unwound” by a certain age. That means their entire body is dissected and organs are donated. It sort of touches on abortion, organ donation, and other morality and autonomy debates. I never finished the entire series, but I really enjoyed the first two books.
The sound good
Lol so glad I’m not alone in not being able to pick just one lol
The Darkest Minds, Red Queen, An Ember in the Ashes
What’s The Darkest Minds about
It’s about children who end up with certain abilities after a certain age and they are then sent to “camps”
The Girl With All the Gifts! So so good! They made it into a movie too and it was pretty good! Oh and Ember in the Ashes is my new favoritr!
What’s an ember in the ashes is that from The City of Ember movie
@Mike, it’s a great series by Sabaa Tahir. It’s so so good!
The Delirium trilogy is one of my favourites, Gender Game is good for a one time read through
The Maze Runner, Divergent, TMI, The Hunger Games were my favorite book series of all times. And getting into the Red Queen series.
i love those and tmi <3
What’s tmi?
the mortal instruments – cassandra clare 😀
@Silvana yes ok
The Institute series by Kayla Howarth, True Calling series by Siobhan Davis, The Arc series (which I felt I couldn’t get into properly but was still a good read) and I also like the Matefinder series by Leia Stone which is less of a dystopian and more supernatural but it is still an amazing read which I felt was similar enough to dystopian to be enjoyable. Enjoy the books you do end up reading though x
What’s the Institute about
Here’s the blurb for it.
Living in constant fear. Always looking over your shoulder. The source of your fear? The Institute.
Allira Daniels will do anything to keep her Defective brother safe from the Institute. They claim to protect Defectives, but it’s human nature to fear the unknown. Defectives are dangerous, they possess abilities that no human should be able to. To Allira and the rest of her family, the Institute seems more like a prison than the safe-haven they promote themselves to be. Protecting Shilah from that fate is their number one priority.
When Allira stumbles across a car crash involving two of her school classmates, she ignores all of her father’s warnings of laying low and not drawing attention to herself. By doing so, she may have just caught the eye of the Institute. She’s not Defective, but what seventeen-year-old girl has the ability to pull two teenage boys away from a fiery rubble and walk away without a scratch? It would definitely be seen as suspicious.
Allira and her family need to make decisions. Do they stay, or do they flee again? Will they be coming for her? Will her whole family come under investigation? Will they discover Shilah and his ability to predict the future?
Are you Defective? The Institute is coming for you.
I just finished the Legend series by Marie Lu!!! Amazing!! Also read The Darkest Minds and didn’t really like it as much… I need more books to read!!
A lot of people liked Legend.
Yes legend was great!
Legend is a great trilogy!
I LOVE Legend!?
@Gemma what’s it about
Divergent is my fav
Flawed was good, and the first book of the Matched series
Partials was a great book
What’s that about
These half human half genetically modified humans kinda like perfect robots… All on a link and a human girl who falls in love with one partial
Year One by Nora Roberts. Not YA but a good book. It’s that first of a series. Not your typical NR book. I read it in a few days
Did you by any chance read James Patterson’s Witch & Wizard??
No I haven’t
@Kelly ?? I’m just trying to find something different
Emerge by Heather Sunseri is a good series.
Cameron jace has a couple pretty good dystopian stories I really like those he does have a lot of grammatical errors but the story is so captivating that I normally skip right over it and move on he has the I am alive series and then also a different story that is a stand-alone so far that he has renamed beauty Beast
Me I like all of them
I love divergent!!!
I have a very good trilogy to share with you! Seriously you need to read The Enclave trilogy by Ann Aguirre. They are super good!
What’s that about
The testing trilogy, the matched trilogy, the everlife trilogy
Delirium series!
I’m going to have to check that out
What’s it about
Mike Huard it’s about a dystopian future where “love” is treated as a disease so the government vaccinates the population. But In doing so they also get rid of empathy, compassion etc. so Society easentially loses its humanity. Those who refuse treatment are casted off and the government tries to hide the evidence of how many people refuse to be treated. It’s really good especially if you liked the hunger games or divergent
MAZE RUNNER IS MY LIFE
Are those good i really want to start the series and I have the first book. I just got into the movies and a lot of people say that the movies dont follow the books which most movies dont but I was just wondering if it would be worth the read.
I’ve read the books and honestly prefer them to the movies but I’m naturally a book person after i saw the first Maze runner movie it only took me a week to get the books and then it took me a week after to read them i honestly love them they are great although the movies drifted away from the books a lot.
So ive heard. Im honestly a book over movie type person as well. I prefer the books over most movies. Kinda like harry potter i enjoyed the books a lot more, wishing that the movies were 3-4 hrs a piece because I would’ve totally sat thru those movies if they wouldve put more of the book in them. Not saying the movies were bad because im glad they brought it life I just wish they wouldve put more in the movies
They completley changed the scorch trrials which i hated but i still like the movie but that book out of all of the maze runner trilogy is my favourite. I havent read the Harry potter books yet. Recommend?
I definitely recommend the harry potter series definitely a well worth read probably one of my favorite series that got me into reading
The maze runner was the main books that got me into reading i read a lot as a kid but then high school didn’t do me good. and i only recently started reading a year ago.So and my best friend is a Harry potter addict so i have considered reading it alot so i will try and read.
I will definitely say I took a creative writing class in high school my senior year and it got me into a lot different genres of reading. I really enjoy reading from the young adult fantasy fiction section but I have tried to branch out. I enjoyed the Harry Potter series from middle school into high school , my government teacher got mad at me cause I was reading the last book of series in her class. ???
Unfortunately in high school they don’t have creative writing which i was very disappointed about but i would’ve loved to take it. And my math teacher complained i was falling asleep in class so i just started reading instead… I’ve read the maze runner trilogy 4 times and the other two books in the series twice.
My creative writing teacher had Stephanie Myers in her class when she was in high school. So she made us read twilight, which i will have to say not a bad series other then vampires don’t sparkle.
I’ve never read twilight and never considered it because my friend despises it so ive never really gone back to the thought of it. I’m just one of the unlucky ones because we dont have a creative writing class.
No worries the books werent for everyone. My good friend is a harry potter fanatic and she absolutely despised the twilight series and she loves harry potter she read twilight and then brought the book back to the teacher and told her that it was a horrible book and wanted to know why we didn’t read harry potter
My friend whose obsessed with the harry potter books was the one who despises Twilight XD
Have any other book suggestions because my birthday is coming up and i dont want anything but books and i cant think of any apart from Harry potter books that i want
The everlife series by gena showalter
I read up on the first book and it already sounds really interesting so im definetly going to get that thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah no problem just got the third book in mail and once I move it will be the next book that I read after Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
I cant wait to read it just the summary is captivating me.
I honestly cannot wait XD
Let me know what you think after reading the first book. It is a great series, sadly I read the first two books last year and had to wait for the third one to come out this year so I preorder the book. Finally got in the mail awhile back but was in the middle of book so have to finish one to start it
ohh okay and i will after i finished the first book XD
Sounds good. Definitely a series worth falling love with
I hope i dont want to get too attached to a book unless it worth it
Anthem is a pretty good book
The Darkest Minds starts slow but is actually really good!!! Also Angelfall is awesome!
I enjoyed the Hunger Games, but disliked the ending. I watched Divergent and Maze Runner, but didn’t enjoy them enough to watch the sequels.
TBH, I struggled to get through all of these. I liked the uniqueness of some themes presented and the stories are well structured. Pacing was good through most of them and the scenes engaging. But I think I’m done reading more based on dystopian/post-apocalyptic premises, and found some characters to be largely too cookie-cutter for my personal taste.