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Wither: Lauren DeStafano

Now this is a great dystopian novel (which is one of my favorite genres).

All about what would happen if humanity’s life span dramatically shurnk due to all our “progresses” in science.

What would it do to the social makeup of our lives if everyone was only living 20 years? How would we keep the human race surviving?

Great book! I totally recommend it!

Amazon Summary:
When scientists engineered genetically perfect children, everyone thought it would ensure the future of the human race. Though the first generation is nearly immortal, a virus causes all successive generations to die early: age 20 for women, 25 for men. Now, girls are kidnapped for brothels or polygamous marriages to breed children. Rhine is taken from her hardscrabble life and sold with two other girls to Linden Ashby. Though they live in a palatial Florida home surrounded by gardens and treated like royalty, the girls are sequestered from the outside world, and Rhine longs to escape. Her growing affection for her sister wives, her pity for Linden, and her fear of Housemaster Vaughn, Linden’s manipulative father, keep her uncomfortably docile, until she falls for servant Gabriel. 

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing; 1 edition (March 22, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9781442409057
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Hare Moon: Carrie Ryan

This is a novella and is sort of a prequel to the Forest of Hands and Teeth where we get to learn why Sister Tabitha is such a punk.

Well she has reason to be!

The only bad thing about this book was that it was a novella and therefore super short. I really wanted to keep reading.

Totally recommend this, but AFTER you read the series.

5 stars.

Amazon Summary:
Tabitha can’t shake the feeling that something exists beyond the fences of her village. And when she sneaks out, past the gates and down the path into the Forest of Hands and Teeth, she meets a boy who teaches her heart things she never knew. But love in a world surrounded by so much death doesn’t come without its sacrifices, and Tabitha gradually realizes just how much she’ll have to give up to live among the Unconsecrated.

Currently, the book is only in digital format.

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The Dark and Hollow Places: Carrie Ryan

This is the much anticipated third installment in the Forest of Hands and Teeth series that I adored.

Seriously, I loved this series and felt it had just the right mixture of zombie and humanity to keep me interested.

Anyways, I don’t have any complaints and I felt it wrapped the series up nicely. It was my top book of 2010 for sure.

I recommend it!

Amazon Summary:
There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister’s face when she and Elias left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the horde as they found their way to the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.

Annah’s world stopped that day and she’s been waiting for him to come home ever since. Without him, her life doesn’t feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.

Except, Catcher has his own secrets — dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah’s longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it’s up to Annah — can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return’s destruction?

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (March 22, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780385738590
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The Passage

So this book was referred to me by Penny when I wrote the tweet:

And she did not disappoint! First off, this book took me several days to finish because it has almost 800 pages. LOVE it!
It’s this sort of end of the world because of a nasty virus that makes people sort of like vampire/zombie crazy people. But it spans like over 100 years and has such an in depth story. I really enjoyed it and totally recommend it to people who like this type of genre. It also is the first of a trilogy, so I’m really looking forward to the rest of them.

4 stars and yes, recommend it.

Amazon Summary:
Fans of vampire fiction who are bored by the endless hordes of sensitive, misunderstood Byronesque bloodsuckers will revel in Cronin’s engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America overrun by the gruesome reality behind the wish-fulfillment fantasies. When a secret project to create a super-soldier backfires, a virus leads to a plague of vampiric revenants that wipes out most of the population. One of the few bands of survivors is the Colony, a FEMA-established island of safety bunkered behind massive banks of lights that repel the virals, or dracs—but a small group realizes that the aging technological defenses will soon fail. When members of the Colony find a young girl, Amy, living outside their enclave, they realize that Amy shares the virals’ agelessness, but not the virals’ mindless hunger, and they embark on a search to find answers to her condition. PEN/Hemingway Award–winner Cronin (The Summer Guest) uses a number of tropes that may be overly familiar to genre fans, but he manages to engage the reader with a sweeping epic style. The first of a proposed trilogy, it’s already under development by director Ripley Scott and the subject of much publicity buzz

  • Hardcover: 784 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; First Edition, First Printing edition (June 8, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345504968
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The Scorch Trials: James Dashner

This is the second book in a trilogy, following up The Maze Runner .

This book took the story to an all new level and I totally loved it! I read this book in one sitting and was really into it.
The only bad thing is it ends in a sort of cliff hanger and of course the 3rd book hasn’t come out yet.

But seriously, this is a great book (series) and I totally recommend it with 5 stars. Obviously the only caveat is you need to read The Maze Runner first, duh.

and this Q&A from the author made me so happy when he answered this question:
Q: You ended The Scorch Trials with a cliffhanger to rival the ending of The Empire Strikes Back. What sorts of things can your readers look forward to in The Death Cure?
A: I just turned in the third book, and I’m very proud of it and excited about it. Every last question is resolved, you see much more of the real world, and the ending is not what people may expect but I’m confident they’ll be satisfied with the resolution. And lots of twists and action of course!

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (October 12, 2010)
  • Language: English