(The Sixth World #2)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
I like dystopian fiction but less a showdown of good versus evil even if the lines are blurred. Rebecca’s style is breezy though.
Tag archives: dystopia
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
by Sarah Pinsker
★★★★½
Trail of Lightning
(The Sixth World #1)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
★★★★
The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline
Like Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower this is an intensely believable dystopia with anxiety-inducing on-the-run survivalism.
There were a few off points. I wish Dimaline didn’t include the rivalry between the protagonist and a later character or at least had Frenchie apologise and own up to lashing out … Read more
Severance
by Ling Ma
★★★★½
Desperate Games
by Pierre Boulle
Five pages in, fully invested in the myth of meritocracy. A ratio of one to twelve signals neither sexism nor racism, and the Nobel prize is apolitical.
Parable of the Talents
(Earthseed #2)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Parable of the Sower
(Earthseed #1)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★