Genre: Dystopian

THIS IS NOT A TEST By Courtney Summers

Short and Sweet Review The zombie apocalypse has started and all it takes is one bite for someone to change, and that doesn’t sound too bad to Sloane. Sloane has lost her will to live so when she ends up barricaded in the high school with five other teens it’s weird for her. Sloane is […]

COLDWIRE By Chloe Gong

Short and Sweet Review In a future split between the shiny virtual “upcountry” and the crumbling “downcountry,” Eirale and Lia are living completely different lives and yet, somehow, they’re pieces of the same puzzle. Eirale gets framed for an assassination she didn’t commit and is forced into a dangerous mission in Medaluo, while Lia is […]

LAST CHANCE LIVE! By Helena Haywoods Henry

Short and Sweet Review Last Chance Live! is a popular reality television show where prisoners on death row can win their freedom by winning the show. Eternity is on death row and she knows this show could be her last chance at living a life outside of the prison walls. Eternity needs America to vote […]

SOULMATCH By Rebecca Danzenbaker

Short and Sweet Review Soulmatch follows our main character Sivon an eighteen year old who is about to learn about her past lives. After World War 3 the soul identification process was instilled and because of that the world is at peace. Sivon is hopeful that she’s going to have a good soul and maybe […]

PRETTIES By Scott Westerfeld

Short and Sweet Review Pretties picks up a little after where Uglies left off. Tally is now a Pretty and she’s living the Pretty lifestyle but she gets the sense that something isn’t right. When Tally gets a message all of the things from her past are now remembered and she has to make a […]

FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD By Ava Reid

Short and Sweet Review Inesa lives in a half sunken town where she works at a taxidermy shop with her brother and they barely make ends meet. Unbeknownst to them their mother has them in the red and that means they’re going to need to pay it back and to do that she enrolled Inesa […]

ALL BETTER NOW By Neal Shusterman

Short and Sweet Review There’s a new virus infecting people called Crown Royale and people who get it end up being content, they no longer have negative feelings and are pretty much optimists. There are two different sides people who want to spread the virus and others who want to find a vaccine and take […]

UGLIES By Scott Westerfeld

Short and Sweet Review Tally has been waiting for her 16th birthday and it’s right around the corner, once Tally turns 16 she’ll be able get surgery to take her from being an ugly to a pretty. Tally’s friend Peris got the surgery three months ago and she can’t wait to join him on the […]

MEMENTO NORA By Angie Smibert

Short and Sweet Review In Nora’s world if you have a memory you want to get rid of you can, you just have to go to the Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic or TFC. Nora recently had a nightmare she wants to forget so she accompanies her mother to the clinic. At the clinic Nora sees a […]