First I need to confess I only read XVI because I’ve been participating in A-Z reading challenge and there were very little options for letter X. I like reading dystopias, but after checking out a few negative reviews I knew I probably wouldn’t like this book, but I gave it a shot anyway. Now I don’...
XVI has been billed as a feminist book, a deconstruction of rape culture. Sadly, Karr doesn't deconstruct, critique, or even give a hard look at rape culture. She simply observes it.Let's back up to the basic premise here. On their sixteenth birthdays, all girls (and only girls) are given a XVI tatt...
I read this book for my March Random Reads pick. Going into the book I knew it wasn't going to amaze me. I read a lot of bad reviews on this book, but of course I still forged ahead to make my own decision. Unfortunately, the reviews were right with the one. It had great promise, an interesting plot...
I was so back and forth about what to rate this book. In YA so often we as readers demand a heroine who is kick ass and special and ready to TAKE ON THE WORLD!!! And when we get those heroines, we're like, "Oh, I've read it all before."Karr's Character, Nina, is anything but what most readers dema...
(Pinches the bridge of my nose and makes a frustrated sigh) This book was yet another waste of my time. It was slow, preachy, and annoying as hell. I thought a dystopian book about 16 year old girls being subjected to the extreme pressure of sex and being branded with their age, mixed with a governm...
This book is so forgettable, I... you know, forgot I read it. All I could think of was that I KNEW I read three books last week. Luckily, I had written it down.XVI takes place in a future Chicago where government and media control class structure and sexuality in a way that is obviously bad, but oth...
I liked this book because it speaks about real problems. Society Julia Karr created could possibly become our own. ’’Government controls the Media, the Media controls us.’’ Even now we’re surrounded with advertising, from all sides we’re being told what to think, what to like, how to behave. Dystopi...
I was hoping for an explicitly feminist young adult dystopia here, maybe an updated The Handmaid's Tale for the younger crowd. Something empowering, that assured teen girls that yes, sexuality is sometimes complicated, and exploring it is okay if you want to, and waiting is just fine too. Instead, w...
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