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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

13th May 2019 by Norrie

Quietly emotional, utterly depressing. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Genres: Fiction, Dystopia Published: 31st August, 2010 Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 3 Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. […]

Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: dystopia, Fiction, hailsham, kazuo ishiguro, morals, never let me go

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

22nd Mar 2019 by Norrie

Political commentary? Dystopian fiction? A story about people with magic skills? The Fever King is all those, and some more… The Fever King by Victoria Lee Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBT Published: 1st March, 2019 Goodreads Series: Feverwake #1 Rating: 4 In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of […]

Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: dystopia, Fantasy, feverwake, LGBTQ+, magic, Sci-Fi, the fever king, victoria lee, witching, young adult

Literature® by Guillermo Stitch

12th Nov 2018 by Norrie

Trippy… Literature® by Guillermo Stitch Genres: Sci-Fi, Dystopia Published: 1st July, 2018 Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 3 We don’t know exactly when Literature® takes place and we don’t know exactly where. All we know is that Philip Marlowe would fit right in. We don’t get Marlowe though. We get Billy Stringer. And Billy is on nobody’s trail. He’s the prey. The day hasn’t begun very well for Billy. He just messed up his first big assignment, he’s definitely going to […]

Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: banned books, dystopia, literature, novella, Sci-Fi

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

6th Aug 2018 by Norrie

All Rights Reserved is a story that would work perfectly as an episode of Black Mirror. The premise sounds a bit far fetched, but at the same time you can’t help but wonder if it isn’t something that might just happen one day. I mean, personalized advertising the book mentions often, is already sort of a thing now… All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult Published: 29th August, 2017 Goodreads | Bookdepository | Amazon UK Series: […]

Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: black mirror, copyright, dystopia, Fiction, gregory scott katsoulis, YA

Monthly Catch Up #5 – May 2018

30th May 2018 by Norrie

May is the month I turn a year older, and I’d love to say wiser too, but truth be told, I’m just probably more of a wiseass than a year before. For a short period I had two cats again, after my neighbour discovered a lost kitty in our communal garden, and as the resident cat lady, it was sort of obvious to everyone that I will be the one taking care of the poor thing. With my amazing investigating […]

Categories: Books, Monthly Catch Up, Read • Tags: birthday, cats, dystopia, lists, may, Monthly Catch Up, Review

Teenagers Save The Day – 16 YA Dystopian Series, Not Only For Teenagers

19th May 2018 by Norrie

When I was a teenager, I dreamed about endless summer holidays, unlimited access to books and being kissed under very specific and romantic circumstances. I never, however, dreamed of saving the world or overthrowing the government. I have to admit though, as crappy as the situation was, our government was far from being totalitarian, so that might play a part in my goals never developing further from average teenage wishes to just be a normal person. I feel like I […]

Categories: Books, List • Tags: chaos walking, chemical garden, dystopia, dystopian series, hunger games, katniss, reading list, scythe, series, YA dystopia

Monthly Catch Up #4 – April 2018

29th Apr 2018 by Norrie

In the third week of April, summer has arrived to London quite abruptly. On Monday I was still wearing my winter coat, and then Thursday found me almost half naked, getting a tan in the parking lot on our smoke break at work. Anarchy in the UK, pretty much. We are back to shitty weather though, so all is well. So let’s see what happened in April on Reading Under the Blankie, shall we. On account of having three days […]

Categories: Books, Monthly Catch Up, Read • Tags: baby teeth, dystopia, lists, Monthly Catch Up, reading slump, Review, sweetpea

20 Books To Satisfy Your Cravings for Dystopia

16th Apr 2018 by Norrie

Dystopian fiction, just like any other fiction, is written mainly for entertainment. But because of the subject we also connect with it on a deeper, often thought inspiring level. We see our fears manifest in the stories, a bleak future unfold; foreign but also familiar. Women are told they have no right over their own bodies, groups of people are being demonized and oppressed for no reason, people living in poverty and desperation: these are not only stuff of fiction, […]

Categories: Books, List • Tags: adult dystopia, dystopia, dystopian fiction, dystopian series, Fiction, Reading, reading list, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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