Welcome to the first half of the 2020 Dystopia Reading Challenge !! This will be the first of two bi-annual link-ups for your reviews! So this link-up will cover January, February, March, April, May & June! The link-up will always be easily accessible by hovering over Dystopia Reading Challenge tab and selecting Review Link-Up from the drop down menu. :) HELPFUL LINKS: Dystopian, (post-)apocalyptic and sci-fi YA of 2016 Best Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Best YA Dystopia Novels LINK-UP GUIDELINES: Link up your book reviews under "Review Link-up" as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, Booklikes, etc. Make sure to use an email you check, because if you win the giveaway, I'll be using that email to contact you. Remember, each review you link up is an entry into the giveaway! :) Giveaway is open international as long as the Book Depository ships to you! :) Try and stop by some other reviews! Lets create a sense of community and get to t...
TITLE: The Glass Kitchen AUTHOR: Linda Francis Lee PUBLISH DATE: June 17, 2014 PUBLISHER: St. Martins Press 384 pages Amazon : $10.99 ebook Barnes and Noble : $10.99 ebook After a couple of chapters of wondering where this book was going, I was pulled and then couldn't put the book down. It took a bit to figure out the characters and what was happening. The reader is hit with a bunch of chaos right off the bat and it requires patience for the issues to come to light. But if you are patient, the characters find their way into your heart and I was rooting for them all. Well all but Uncle Andrew. I didn't want him to get anything, but he was still a good, bad character. Ariel was my favorite, but I aligned with her as she was a dreamer, the problem solver, the bridge in negativity. I did love the sisters, Portia, Olivia and Coredila, but would love to read a follow-up book that includes their own stories. There was a few major curve balls in this book that by the t...