![]() ![]() I really hope that Pandemonium has the following or I'm not sure I'd make it through this book: If Alex doesn't make it.then my heart will implode. (Shoot on Sight) So the book is coming out February 28 and I preordered my copy!!! I really hope that Pandemonium has the following or I'm not sure I'd make it through this book: -Alex is alive, in prison, and not "cured" (because no one better touch a hair on his head!!!) -Lena WAITS for him, gets stronger, and *drum roll* rescues him -Lena doesn't fall in love with some other dude with pretty eyes and kissable lips or I'd SOS him. Of course, a dystopian world WITH vampires? That's another story.Pre Review: If Alex doesn't make it.then my heart will implode. So I'm not quite sure people are just reading this in the same way that they were like, 'Oh, I'm just gonna read vampire romance over and over again." I feel that if you sat there and only read about broken worlds over and over again, it would get a little bleak and tiresome. "I, as a reader, when I finish a dystopian novel, I just wanna go read Pride And Prejudice. David Levithan understandably has a warm place in his heart for The Hunger Games, but he's not convinced that dystopian fiction will knock the vampire off its young adult perch. Not everyone is as big a fan of these books as Pitre. I cried so much reading all three books, but I found them to be absolutely amazing." "If you think Suzanne Collins is mean in Hunger Games with all the people she kills, just wait 'til you meet Patrick Ness. Some, like the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness, are violent. Rebellion plays a big role in these books, says Pitre, and it helps if they have what she calls "swoon" - that is, a hot romance. It's like a train wreck you can't look away." "I loved how gross the mutations were in her book. In Julianna Baggott's Pure, a massive bombing leaves survivors forever fused to whatever they were doing at the moment of the detonations. The best of these books, says Sarah Pitre, offer richly imagined visions of a world changed forever by a cataclysmic disaster. but it is kind of fun to see writers trying to stretch and be like, what else could happen, what other terrible tragedy could occur?"Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Pure Author Julianna Baggott Super-volcano's been very popular, virus is very popular, nuclear bomb is popular. "You know, it's fun to see so many books try to guess how the world will end. ![]() Pitre says there's always a hero or heroine, no older than the early 20s, faced with a life or death situation in a post apocalyptic world. Some of them even have covers that clearly imitate The Hunger Games. Look in the Young Adult section of any book store and you'll see shelves full of these books. "Dystopia is the new vampire for sure," says Sarah Pitre, who's not a teenager but loves young adult fiction and writes about it on her web site, Forever Young Adult. They are aimed straight at a teenage audience. The film version of the book stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the courageous young heroine who volunteers to take part in the games in order to save her little sister from having to participate.ĭystopian fiction has been around for a long time, but the success of The Hunger Games has spawned a whole new crop of books set in a grim future where an authoritarian regime is just begging to be overthrown. Now, there are more than 26 million copies of all The Hunger Games books in print in the U.S., and all three books consistently top the best-seller lists. "It came in on a Friday," he says, "and I and the other editors who worked on it read it over the weekend, and we came in on Monday and just looked at each other and said: 'Wow.'"Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Hunger Games Author Suzanne Collins It wasn't until Collins turned in the first manuscript that Levithan understood what he had. David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic which publishes the books, says the company took a risk on The Hunger Games because they trusted the writer, Suzanne Collins. Why would it be? It's the story of a world where teenagers are forced to fight each other to the death in a game that is broadcast and watched everywhere like a reality TV show. In the beginning, The Hunger Games was not considered a sure thing. And publishers are eagerly churning out more books set in post apocalyptic dystopian worlds - just like The Hunger Games. ![]() The hype around the movie has sent the sales of the already best-selling trilogy to new heights. The film version of the young adult book sensation The Hunger Games opens March 23rd. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Pandemonium Author Lauren Oliver ![]()
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