Reading Popular YA Dystopian Books

Dystopian/dystopia has been a popular genre back in the year 2010 to 2012. But for me, it reached its peak in 2012. A lot of great dystopian books came out in the past years and I remember reading some of the most popular series/trilogy in this genre. But these past 4 or 5 years, the new releases for this genre does not peaked my interest because I feel like most of the good tropes or plot has already been written and the other books are just footnotes or an afterthought. So with that mindset, I plan to read the older dystopian books that was also popular and making a hype back in The Hunger Games era. (Yeah that’s what I call it.)

I am a self-proclaimed dystopian lover and I want to do a blog where I could recommend or rank dystopian books. However, I am aware that the books that I have read is not even half of the popular books in this genre. So I did some research and picked 9 books that I planned to read. The books that I picked are the books that I have been hearing back in the days that I haven’t gotten around to. I list them down in a piece of paper and ranked them by their Goodreads rating. I am reading it from the lowest to the highest ranking books. In addition to that, I am only reading the first book in the series/trilogy and that will be the deciding factor if I will continue on with this series.

So I will not make this intro much longer than it should have and let’s get into the books!

Rooms by Lauren Oliver

RATING: 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑

Published: September 23, 2014

Publisher: Ecco

Format: Paperback

Pages: 320

 

 

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“The way I figure it, life’s the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition.”

SYNOPSIS:

After her New York Times bestselling novels for young adults, Lauren Oliver returns with her first book for adults, a spellbinding novel that confirms her place as one of our finest storytellers. Rooms is a mesmerizing and suspenseful story of guilt, love, and family secrets.

Estranged patriarch Richard Walker has died, leaving behind a country house. His alienated family arrives for their inheritance—but they are not alone. Two restless ghosts linger within the house’s walls. Both the living and dead are haunted by painful truths that surface with explosive force. When a new ghost appears, the spirit and human worlds collide—with cataclysmic results.

Elegantly constructed and brilliantly paced, Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama, as haunting as it is resonant.