The second cinematic installment of Veronica Roth’s dystopian YA series was released last weekend. Were we excited? Yeah. Was it even close to our beloved book? Um, no. Does the movie stand alone? Undecided (because how can we tell, we’ve already read the books & seen Divergent). But we still think it’s Tweeks Approved. In…
With adolescence comes the question of identity with many a teenager thinking they are some freak of nature. As a result, the Young Adult fiction explosion of the last decade or so has amped that up, coupled with the Millennial generation’s worries about the future as seen in the preponderance of dystopias. As it is,…
Everything is going to hell. Everything is always going to hell, and always has been, of course, but it’s going to hell even more now than it ever has been, and quicker, too. And so we get ever more stories about those hells – like these two very different books that I have to talk…
