Once Upon A Dystopia: Recent Episodes
Brooke Booklife
Each week I will be discussing a different dystopian book, diving into the lore that makes it a dystopia, and determining if it's survivable, and what I'd do if transported into said book. Learning lessons along the way of how to survive in the real world if the book's future starts looks a bit too real.
Jump back into the world of Panem and see how Katniss deals with her second round of Hunger Games
The Warehouse is a dystopian novel about what modern day Amazon could maybe turn into. Living at your job, eating at your job, getting medical care at your job, never leaving the campus that your job is at, what could be worse.
Ashfall by Mike Mullin is a story about the super volcano going off in Yellowstone. Our main character 15yr old Alex is home alone when the volcano goes off and has to set off on foot to reach his parents who are 135miles away.
Trigger warning for this episode: death, sexual assault
Rot & Ruin is book 1 of the Rot & Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry. Zombies have been around for 14yrs and our main character Benny is about to become a hunter with the help of his older half-brother Tom.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was published in 2008. In this episode we will discuss the hardships that Katniss Everdeen has to tackle in order to survive this book, as well as my take on those same hardships, and how I'd survive this world!
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