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Dream Hotel, The

“Under the right circumstances, anything can be made into something sinister.” Author: Laila Lalami Sara gets pulled away from her husband and twin infants at LAX, presumably for a routine risk assessment. She is exhausted, angry, irritated. She isn’t at her best. Bad goes to worse when the Risk Assessment Administration decides that her irascibility and their algorithm, which tracks everything from a person’s actions to the content of their dreams, denotes her as a safety risk. She’ll have to go to Madison, a women’s retention center, where she will be monitored for twenty-one days or until the algorithm determines that [...]

2025-09-08T18:37:34-07:00September 8th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Nothing But the Rain

Memories in the Rain Author: Naomi Salman In Aloisville, the rain washes away your sins, your past, your memory, you. No one knows when it started, or why, but Laverne has been keeping a journal and performing experiments. She now knows how much rain it takes to wash away a moment of your time and how much it takes to leave you an empty shell. It rains every day now, and her notes cover the walls of her house, reminding her, lest she forget. The notes talk about how much rain does how much damage, about what they have learned over [...]

2024-10-05T19:31:57-07:00October 5th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Shatter Me

Drippy Dystopian Romance Author: Tahereh Mafi The Hunger Games were destined to spawn countless copycat Young Adult dystopian novels.  That's not really a bad thing.  Strong heroines, brave resistance to tyranny, a solid story from beginning to end - all good.  Unfortunately, grabbing a post-apocalyptic setting and tacking on a more typical and cliched "teen book" is a lot easier than borrowing the more complex elements of The Hunger Games.  Shatter Me has a smattering of originality in places, leaving it many steps above sparkling vampires, but stumbles into too many trite potholes to be a worthy dystopian successor to [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:28-07:00April 16th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , |
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