Showing posts with label Anomaly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anomaly. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Anomaly, Luminary, and Revolutionary

Today I finished the Anomaly series by Krista McGee. This series absolutely took my breath away. I was immediately drawn in after the first couple of pages of the first book in the dystopian trilogy, Anomaly (I reviewed that last week) and couldn't put the other two down.




As I said in my previous post, the Anomaly trilogy follows are young woman named Thalli and her struggle, escape, and desire to overthrow and defeat the State, an underground post-nuclear war society located under the Rocky Mountains. As I read I got to experience with Thalli as she discovered her emotions weren't bad and met The Designer, the one who ultimately designed everything and has a place for her in heaven. 

These books are Christian fiction so, if you don't like "religion being shoved in your face and down your throat" when you read, I would advise you not pick up this series. Faith is an important part of the novels and is part of what makes Thalli and her friends, Berk, John, Rhen, Dallas, and Alex who they are. Without those aspects, the novels wouldn't be what they are.

On the other hand, these are excellent books and the best dystopian series I have ever read, hands down. If you don't mind the Christian aspects of the books, I strongly suggest you add this series to your summer reading list (what's left of it) and get started right away. They are amazing and each book will have you aching for the words of the next one!

What's your favorite dystopian series?

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Anomaly


I have just finished reading the dystopian novel Anomaly by Krista McGee. Let me start off with saying that I have read a lot of dystopian novels and this one was by far the best! The book was recommended to me by my friend Emma and I knew that if she recommended it, I was going to like it. I just didn't expect to like it this much! 

The novel was amazing! I was hooked after the prologue, and was totally connecting to the main character Thalli (she was a musician after all, so I could easily see where she was coming from). Thalli lives in a post nuclear war Earth in an underground area called "The State". Everyone in the state has been genetically designed by The Ten to have no emotions, feelings, or be ill. Anyone who differs from this pattern is malformed and considered an anomaly and harmful to the state. All anomalies must be annihilated. The novel took me on an emotional roller coaster filled with plot twists and characters I just wasn't expecting.

I am so excited that this is the first of series, the other two books were released this July and when I get back from Blacksburg, I plan to have them on my bookshelf! Amazing!

What has been your favorite dystopian novel?