This was initially a 3 star for me, but after some more consideration I'm thinking a 4 star would be more appropriate. (Mostly because of how bad ass I think the allusion of the chrome color spectrum pretty much making a rainbow is for sexual preference rights. Totally rad.) People are saying this i...
Hannah Payne lives in a dystopian version of America where conservative Christians are in control and criminals serve their sentences out in public, melachromed for easy identification. Hannah has commited the crime of having an abortion (classified as murder) and for that, every inch of her skin h...
I really liked the premise for this book although it certainly isn't unique. What if people who commit a crime get released back into society with their skin turned a different color? Borrowing heavily from The Scarlet Letter and less so from [b:The Handmaiden's Tale], this tells the story of Hannah...
3.5 starsI think pretty much everyone had to read The Scarlet Letter in high school. I did and I remember liking it for the most part (although my memory is hazy) but I also remember wondering why the hell the preacher man wouldn't come forward and claim his and Hester Prynne's love child as his own...
I wish I could write two reviews for When She Woke, one for the first half of the book and another for the second. Unfortunately, this is not one of those books that I can say starts off not so good but finishes on a high note; on the contrary, the first half was one of the strongest dystopian openi...
I loved this novel. Again, like most books these days, the end was a bit disappointing, but just because it didn't make me go wow. The rest of the story, however, did. It was paced nicely and dealt with a lot of issues that are important today. It's not difficult at all to see how our current so...
What a timely work! With the current assault on women's reproductive rights, this might just be a the world our daughters will have to live through. Unless we say no and demand that women be treated as equal citizens with full responsibility over their own lives.
Hannah wakes up in prison with a different skin color: red. I like the concept of punishment that Jordan sets here. In the society where Hanna lives people who commit crimes are punished by changing the color of their skin so everybody can know what they did. So we have people with yellow, orange, b...
I had a hard time with the believablity of this book. The "not so distant" future set up felt bizarre and it wasn't clear how much chroming and other laws were part of state governments versus the federal government. The author made it in a United States where the government had changed little enoug...
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