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    Dystopia
    Dystopia
    Dystopia
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    Dystopia

    By Janet McNulty

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    Imagine living in a world where everything you do is controlled.

    In the distant future the United States has been split into two regions separated by a barren wasteland; this is the country of Dystopia. Here the individual is discouraged, freedom is an illusion, food is rationed, and everything you do is tracked by a chip implanted in your arm. This is Dana Ginary’s world.

    At age seventeen, people receive their career assignments chosen for them by a government body. Forced to work at the Waste Management Plant because she was declared too individualistic, Dana finds herself surrounded by death and brutality. Knowing her days are numbered, she looks for a way to leave the plant before she, too, becomes one of its causalities.
    It is then she meets a man named George and soon finds herself caught up in a cat and mouse game between the resistance and the Dystopian government. Dana finds herself faced with an agonizing choice of whom she will betray and whom she will save: her friend George, her parents, or herself.

    The eyes are always watching.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet McNulty
    Release dateApr 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301404568
    Dystopia
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    Janet McNulty

    I began construction on Legends Lost Amborese ten years ago while in high school. At the time it was merely a few pages of notes in a notebook. I continued working on the story of Amborese while in college in the hope of publishing it. That day came in August 2011 when the book was first printed. Most recently, I have published the second book in Legends Lost: Tesnayr. I keep myself busy writing the third and final novel in the Legends Lost trilogy: Galdin, which will be released in Summer 2013. You can learn more here: www.legendslosttrilogy.com If you prefer something more contemporary try the Mellow Summers Series. Mellow Summers moves to Vermont to start a new life only to discover that she has a acquired a new ability: she can speak to ghosts. Join her as she is pulled from one mystery to another. I have also published in the area of nonfiction: Illogical Nonsense. I had never planned on writing nonfiction, but when I had the chance to write a political commentary book, I took it. I enjoyed it and hope that it is insightful to any who read it. Besides writing I also read, hike, and crochet. Sometimes I just wander around doing nothing at all. Every once in awhile a girl needs a break and these are great past times.

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    • 3/5
      I received a free ebook version from Library Thing member giveaway.I enjoyed the premise of this book and liked most of the concepts. The vocabulary was pretty basic, but suitable for the young adult audience this is aimed at. I will warn parents of younger kids who may be interested that there is some mild profanity (shit, damn, bastard, bullshit) but used very sparingly. Also some violence and death, but spares the gory details. No romance or sexual content.I did not rate this any higher because there were many instances of things happening that were so unbelievable, and I prefer my dystopias to be plausible. Most of the dialogue I felt was on the cheesy side as well with friendships forming very quickly and trust gained too easily.The ending doesn't really resolve anything because this is apparently the first in a trilogy or series. I'm mildly curious to see what happens next, but not going to lose sleep over it and probably won't read further any time soon because my to-read list is huge.
    • 3/5
      I received this book as part of a LibraryThing giveaway. This is a young adult novel in the dystopian genre. It is a very fast read. The characters are well-developed, although with some flaws that other reviewers have mentioned, and the plot is interesting, although not really original. However, it did draw me in enough so that I would like to see what happens to the characters. The book needs some editing, but it is a fair effort in this genre.
    • 4/5
      I was given a free copy of this book for an honest review. In this social system there are the have and the have-nots. Most have their food, electricity and their jobs selected for them. Non-compliance is severely punished. Chips implanted under the skin control everything.
    • 2/5
      I thought the concept for Dystopia was wonderful and the world was interesting. I am a huge dystopian fan and truly wanted to love the book. However, I felt that the writing was a little disjointed and choppy. The sentences seem very short and to the point, many of them being only a few words, and for me that made it extremely difficult to get into the book. I think it reads a bit more like a screen play than a novel. I also felt that it could have been slightly better paced. The end kind of comes all at once without much build up and then putters out quickly. As I said I did love the concept and the world that was created. I also enjoyed the characters a great deal.Sanders was one of my favorite characters by far.
    • 3/5
      Fast Moving, Quick Read!The president and council of Dystopia dictate jobs, ration food and control all aspects of life. 17 year old Dana is the rebel teenager who questions authority and finds there are consequences to her actions. She is soon to discover how unjust their government is.This is a short story written for the young adult audience and adults alike. Personally parts of the story lack flow and were a little choppy, the end a little abrupt, though the overall story was well put together. It did lack in visualization of the characters, though your imagination could compensate. This is a short story, which would explain the lack of depth. It was a fast read, moving at all times. I did enjoy the book overall and wish to read the sequel.
    • 2/5
      I love dystopian fiction, so I was excited to read the aptly-titled "Dystopia". Unfortunately, I was disappointed from chapter one. Dana's story of life in a dystopian American society is promising, but poor grammar, weak writing, and lack of description do the book a great injustice.The characters have vague descriptions, if any at all; I finished the book in a weekend with no mental image of the main character except for her long, dark hair.The book reads like a fifth-grade story: this happened, then this happened, then this happened. The language is very simple and somewhat boring.Events are unclear and disjointed throughout the novel. It took half a chapter for the author to state what kind of wound one character received; one moment he was running and the next he was inexplicably bleeding. Upon arrival at "The Plant", everyone is stripped of their clothes and given a jumpsuit, yet midway through the book Dana is putting on street clothes, despite an evident need for them, a place to buy them, or mention of them being issued to her. When a group of people attempts to escape with alarms blaring around them, conveniently enough, the exit door is unguarded. These are only three examples; I could fill a page with just the inconsistencies I noticed throughout the book.The heroine - if you can call her such - has no special skills, intelligence, or mental abilities, apart from a mild defiance of the government, which is certainly not severe enough to explain the events of the book. Throughout the book, other characters are murdered for speaking out, yet when she commits the same "crime", she goes relatively unpunished. The authority figures seem to randomly choose her for their mission, and upon its completion praise her for doing something that they "never could have achieved". How about sending undercover officers who are older than seventeen and know what they're doing to do the job?As a whole, the book did nothing for me aside from making me want to shove it back at the author with a list of things to correct before continuing to charge people to buy it. Unless you just don't care about how a story is written, don't bother spending your money on it. I won't be buying the rest of the series.A copy of this book was provided to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      [Dystopia] by [Janet McNulty] is a modern version of [1984] and example of when good intentions get caught up in greed and people are too lazy to care. The characters were very well developed as well as their relationships. The whole idea struck me as what people in the old Soviet Union must have felt like. (I am a history nerd.) I feel the message is that no matter what if people are apathetic they will lose what means the most to them and sometimes standing up for what is right can be really hard.
    • 3/5
      Compelling and all too plausibleSet in a totalitarian future society, in Dystopia everyone lives in cookie-cutter houses, and fried food, antisocial behavior, and inquisitiveness are all forbidden. Although it was more of a novella than a full-length book and the writing could have been more in depth and descriptive at times, I found the basic "Big Brother" plot compelling.All in all, a decent read with an interesting theme.
    • 3/5
      The author really needs to learn about subtly. You get hit with a tirade in Chapter Two that is clearly anti-President Obama and liberals. Now I don't have a problem with other peoples views in fact, I love a book that challenges my beliefs but to beat a dead horse for paragraphs is off-putting. I like my author's point of view sprinkled throughout the plot and characters. However, I did want to find out what happened to Dana so I read on. The writing is very simplistic which is sometimes okay but it kind of bored me in this case. Maybe I'm a literary snob? I don't know but this just wasn't to my taste and I usually like dystopian novels.
    • 4/5
      I've been trying to read books different than I usually do so I was glad to be given a chance to read this. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.People are assigned careers, and Dana is sent to Waste Management, a harsh sector where people don't live very long. She makes some friends, including George, a member of the resistance. You get to see Dana struggle to accept her fate while still holding on to the person she was before being sent to Waste Management.Dystopia is a world created because people didn't want to make choices anymore. The government decides who works where, who can live together, who can have children, and who can receive medical treatment. In wanting to be free, the population is actually enslaved to the government. People are treated as prisoners.Dana has to decide if she's going to be a sheep and follow the rules, or aide the resistance. My only real complaint is the cliffhanger ending. I know it's the first book of a trilogy, but I still would have preferred it to have some type of ending. I'm not a fan of cliffhangers. The book draws you in, and I look forward to reading more about Dana's quest to escape the life assigned to her in the other two books.**A free copy was provided by the author via LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.**
    • 2/5
      Lately, I’ve been drinking in dystopian novels, so I jumped at the chance to read Dystopia. Almost immediately I realized this particular book was going to be a let-down.The author’s writing lacks polish. Neither the characters nor the storyline drew me in due to poor grammar and word choice, glaring inconsistencies, and an overall absence of any type of development.For example, initially Dana’s sister was taken five years ago, but a few pages later that same sister had been diagnosed with cancer only three years prior. Maybe that’s a small thing, but I think authors should be able to keep the details of his or her own novel straight. In another instance, an officer killed one of the other characters and Dana’s reaction was “Jerk!” That’s not a reaction I imagine many people having in a situation such as that.Needless to say, I found myself completely uninterested in the characters or the story’s outcome.***A copy of this book was provided to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.***

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