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  !*Trigger Warning: Lots of death and violence*!  I'm not even lying this book is the most traumatizing and painful one I’ve ever read (which is saying a ton because I had a big Ruta Sepetys phase), and I hope none of you read it until you know that you can process it without losing a piece of your mind. That being said, I think most people should read this book sometime in their lives because it powerfully addresses the fragility of civilization in the face of a climate crisis, and forces you to be shaken by all the crises in other parts of the world.  I think Jarrod Shusterman and Neal Shusterman wrote this book about a drought in Southern California, with the knowledge that there were many people in the world without access to water. Every year the crisis only gets worse, and this book was written 5 years ago.  First, there's a huge water shortage in Southern California, and then powerful people in other states divert the main source of Southern California’s wate...

      In America, teen suicide has reached epidemic levels, killing one out of every three young people, while the suicide rate for adults has remained steady. Psychologists say suicide is a behavioral contagion that spreads from one person to another. A treatment program has been put into place in some school districts to combat the rise in suicide and despair. Pupils are closely watched for indications of depression or suicidal ideation; if a threat is found, it is identified. When a teen is recognized as being at risk, handlers are called in and enroll the person. When a person enters, all of the "infected memories" are removed, and they are then sent back to their family without any memory of the events that had caused them to become melancholy. "Returners" are placed in aftercare, where specialized handlers keep an eye out for relapses. This is The Program.       When Brady, Sloane's elder brother, and James' best friend, kills himself, every...

 The story begins when Sydney Green decides, as a distraction from her elderly mother's illness and other personal woes, to take a walking tour of Gifford Place, her historically Black Brooklyn neighborhood, which is becoming wealthier considering the massive headquarters of a pharmaceutical company that had just been built.  As the story goes on, more and more condos start going up for sale, and neighbors she's known her whole life are just disappearing without a trace. While walking, she runs into her new neighbor, Theo. After getting to know Theo a bit, she becomes paranoid and afraid of him. The more she talks to him, her fear and panic escalate. As time passes, Sydney becomes more paranoid, questions whether she can trust Theo, and questions everything happening around her. In my opinion, the book itself is just like a remake of the movie get out. It has some pretty unexpected twists and turns if you're into that kind of stuff. Overall, the book to me was ok, I guess. ...

Scythe takes place in 2042 in America, now rebranded as MidaMerica, one of the many changes that life went through. Death has been defeated, and with the rise in population growth, there has to be one way for life to end, and that's where the Scythedom was formed. In response to uncontrollable population growth, Scythes are hired killers that end lives to fill their Quota, to keep the population from going up. It's hard to imagine a life without death, and reapers who go around the streets ending lives just as age used to, but this is just modern day life for Citra and Rowan. Citra has wealthy parents, and a happy life that gets altered when Scythe Faraday visits her house. She is terrified and thinking she has to witness one of her parents getting gleaned, (the name he gave killing) but instead, Faraday was hoping for something much worse. The same fate meets Rowan, who unlike Citra, is trapped in a family that barely recognizes him. He describes himself as the "lettuce...

  A Tribute to Book Tropes Everybody loves a good book with a nice good creative plot. A good plot is the requirement for any must read book. Sometimes it gets a little exhausting, searching and asking and waiting to find another creative plot to read. And then, sometimes you get a little tired of waiting, need to fuel your brain, etc., and just need a good solid trope. There's a balance of entertaining a good, and it is my belief that as long as it is entertaining enough, it doesn’t need to be good. I, personally, am always up for an omg, it’s so bad that it’s actually good . So, here's a list of my top four (the number five   is overrated) favorite tropes, and some books with it. Fake relationship The Love Hypothesis is a perfect example and is very high on the entertainment level and low on actually being a good book. In an effort to prove to her friend that she no longer has feelings for her friend's crush, Olive writes some terms and conditions for a fake relation...