Honest and unfiltered book reviews from an over-caffeinated, sleep-deprived nurse and her never ending TBR list..
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett takes place in the dystopian Garner County where it is believed that women have magic that can lure men to sin and make women seethe with envy. Because of this, on their sixteenth year the girls are sent away to the woods to rid themselves of their magic so [...]
The Farm by Joanne Ramos shifts POV as we follow Jane, Ate, Mae and Reagan. Jane is a young Filipino woman looking for work to support her young daughter. She learns of a work opportunity as a baby nurse for NY's most wealthy clients from her cousin Ate. Ate, a well-known baby-nurse in the community [...]
Inspection by Josh Malerman begins following The Alphabet Boys. They are a group of 26 young teenagers living in the middle of the forest in a place called The Parenthood. Each boy is named after a letter of the alphabet. Every day they line up for daily inspections where they strip naked and are examined [...]
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker follows the town of Santa Lora, California when a virus breaks out on a college campus. The virus places those it infects in a deep sleep. Some people die - others are quarantined and brought to the hospital where they are hooked up to IVs and feeding tubes for [...]
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a dystopian novel that weaves back and forth through time before and after a flu pandemic has ended US and Canadian civilization as everyone once knew it. I read this with @kraysbookclub and @downtogetthefictionon for their #notyomamasbookclub pick this month on Instagram. We follow Arthur a stage actor who suddenly dies onstage during a [...]
Vox by Christina Dalcher is a dystopian novel that takes place in the United States after a new extremist president has been elected. Women have been fitted with word counters and a daily allotment of 100 words per day. Speak over the allotment? The counter emits an electric shock to the left wrist that increases [...]
 Red Clocks by Leni Zumas is a dystopian novel that takes place in the US after Row v Wade has been overturned and the Personhood Amendment has been passed where abortion is illegal. The Personhood Amendment gives life, liberty and rights to every embryo at the time of conception and makes IVF illegal because the [...]
