Emily Rogers is ready for a summer that doesn’t involve being cast away on islands or being chased around the globe. So when she’s invited to an elite pre-college class along with her boyfriend, she jumps at the chance. But things are not all they seem at the Yin Program. Students are disappearing, and someone…
Tag: dystopian
CSFF Blog Tour: The First Principle
Vivica Wilkins lived at the top. Her mother was governor, and about to become the president of the United Regions of North America. She had straight As, a personal bodyguard, money, social status, and awesome hacking skills. And then she got involved with a boy and lost all of it, except the hacking skills. This…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Great Collapse
The First Principle is the debut novel of Marissa Shrock. It is dystopian (as is popular), YA (as dystopians so often are), and the subject of this month’s CSFF blog tour (as other YA dystopians have been). One surprise of this novel – and you will not see this point on any other stop in…
CSFF Blog Tour: Rebels
At the ripe old age of forty, all the citizens of the Safe Lands are “liberated”, sent by their government into Bliss. No one is certain what, exactly, that means, but Omar and Mason are about to find out. “Find pleasure in Bliss,” the liberator says, but it won’t be easy. Meanwhile, in the Safe…
CSFF Blog Tour: Outcasts
The Safe Lands are many, many things. Safe is not one of them. Visitors must try hard and diligently not to contract the thin plague. Everyone is studiously tracked by the governing authorities, who live by the principle of three strikes and you’re out. Permanently. And those who manage to make it to forty are…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dystopia
Today the CSFF blog tour begins its tour of Outcasts, the second book in Jill Williamson’s dystopian Safe Lands series. Dystopian is in now; you don’t need to look any further than The Hunger Games to know it, and if you look anyway, you’ll see Divergent. YA dystopian is especially in. This has naturally led…
CSFF Blog Tour: Captives
There are two worlds, separate of their own choosing. In the Safe Lands, all is pleasure and comfort and convenience, greased by the omnipresent wonders of technology – except for the thin plague, and until the time of liberation. In little Glenrock, life is harder and the rules are stricter – but there is the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dystopian Dreaming
In the 1930s, civil war wracked Spain. Under the banner of the Republic, socialists and anarchists and Communists threw in their lot together; the Nationalists – granted force by the military and the Catholic Church – responded to the fears of the middle class. Josef Stalin supported the Republic with arms – always for a…
CSFF Blog Tour: Storm
At the end of the world, you should expect to have some problems. Tyranny, intrigue, drought, a biological superweapon, Big Brother watching you – it all gathers into a perfect storm. In Storm, Logan Langly continues his fight against DOME, his search for answers. He sees more of the big picture than nearly everyone who…
CSFF Blog Tour: Sneak
When you are a refugee from an evil government and its secret police, when your ambition is to pull a prison break at a fortress of a prison, when you are variously counted a criminal, a traitor, an outcast, and a target – what do you do? Well, for starters, you sneak. Sneak is the…