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Originally posted at Gypsy ReviewsOrleans is gritty and honest and shows what a dystopian should look like. Nothing is easy in Orleans and there are risks to everything and you cannot trust anyone because they’re all in it for themselves. It is all about one’s survival in Orleans and nothing else ma...
Some readers may be unsatisfied with the open ending and the fact there are no real answers provided by the end, but the world building and characters more than make up for it. Fen is an awesome leading lady, and the fact that romance plays no part of her character arc but her platonic/familial love...
Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/03/orleans-by-sherri-l-smith.htmlThis book has so many good reviews that I feel evil for not liking it!I liked that there's no romance in the story. FINALLY! Not everything has to lead to romance. I was wondering at the beginning, if Fen is like 16 and Daniel is...
With absolutely spectacular world-building, Orleans held me captive as I watched a post-apocalypse version of New Orleans unfold around me in vivid and careful detail; nothing was overlooked. I did find that I cared very little for the protagonist – Fen – and her tribe dialect. Though I understood h...
Very different from most dystopian books, the dialogue hooked me right away. I really getting onto the plot and learning of the destruction of the world. Especially since this is the area that I live in, I'm was interested in seeing exactly what happens. I'm not disappointed. If anything, everythin...
'The shape of our great nation has been altered irrevocably by Nature, and now Man must follow suit in order to protect the inalienable rights of the majority, those being the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, the foremost of those being Life.'After Hurricane Katrina ripped throu...
For now (and let's be honest, probably forever) I am putting this book aside. I got like 20% of the way through of it and realized it's just not for me.1. Complete lack of emotion. I knew there was a problem when the main character's BEST FRIEND dies and she's like "Okay I'll just grab your baby n...
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