Brave New Love (Mammoth Books)

I loved her anyhow. To the edge of the continent. I would follow her. But tonight I would sleep alone. Rebellion and a Russian-like government and Poetry. Still vaguely confused about what the whole story was? We will win our liberation. With our very own hands. I could feel the Texas heat while reading this, and stories that fully immerse me in the setting are the best.

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Kind of gory at parts, just to warn you. A girl stands beside me, a girl with eyes red as poison apples. She takes my hand, and her skin is cold. Was this a mistake? Interesting take on how pregnancy could be viewed in the future when many women are infertile. I really appreciated that the only thing dystopian about this was just the intricate government and how crowded the city was. Owen and Miranda are percious. Amazing setting, even more amazing ending. I liked the concept of retreating to below ground should the world above grow unsustainable for life.

Your emotions are not your own. She has taken them from you. You have failed the Cruce. Akil is stuck on the th floor, but risks everything for Persephone. Great mythological allusions in a futuristic style. I'd definitely read a full novel of this story. Her quiet greeting, her welcoming gaze, the relief of her cool hand on his fevered cheek. So Akil chose a direction and ran, looking for his love, in darkness. Interesting concept to write in , but with the advances with the U. It was still a story worth writing because not all writing needs to stand the test of time.

Whatever story existed was hidden under so much metaphor, I could not follow. I see now why it was the last book in the anthology. Feb 21, Rai rated it really liked it Shelves: I'm gonna give the book overall a rating but I'll mention each story on its own. This book actually surprised me and was a lot better than I expected. Hidden Ribbon by John Shirley I didn't really like this one at all. I found the writing to be kind of immature and the characters seemed to fall flat.

Things happened without much building up to them. The romance wasn't didn't feel real - the author made sure to mention that the two main characters "talked all night", but nothing was shown of any co I'm gonna give the book overall a rating but I'll mention each story on its own. The romance wasn't didn't feel real - the author made sure to mention that the two main characters "talked all night", but nothing was shown of any conversation that might make their relationship deeper. The reader is expected to assume.

I think it seemed to capture the setting very nicely. Bear took "dystopian" in a new direction - instead of living in poverty and hardship, the dystopia comes in having to live a life of uneventful comfort without being able to follow one's passion. I liked that it was based on an established relationship, and not new love. It was also nice to see gay couples treated as a normal thing. In The Clearing by Kiera Kass The beginning of this story was a bit troublesome because the male lead kidnaps the female lead, referring to it as "taking something for himself".

World building is sort of interesting but lacks a big-picture kind of view. It seems to be kept to one little town only. The romance is decidedly teen, with the two falling in "forever love" after what seems like only one night. Otherwise by Nisi Shawl Excellent voice.

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A very nice view of a dystopian world, and what kind of people emerge from such a world. Certain things were left unexplained, but I find that the allusion to them works well enough to carry on the story. A nice diversity in characters, and it involves a polyamorous relationship, which I have not seen written about in a positive way before.

Very good story, one of my favourites. It used a dystopian society to explore feelings, and how we know what is real. It had a very tense ending, though I liked that it ended where it did. Now don't get your hopes up for loads of steamy romance because you'll be disappointed. Most of the stories have very subtle inclusions of love.

Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire

In one story, for example, a boy falls in love with a girl he sees for only a split second. He then spends the rest of his life seemingly trying to find her and we never get to witness them actually interact. So although the cover is a little misleading when it states these will be "tales of desire" they weren't lying about the "dystopian" part.

There is s Now don't get your hopes up for loads of steamy romance because you'll be disappointed. There is some fantastic world building and ideas throughout the majority of the stories. And it sort of worked that it all had to be revealed quickly. And for me personally I liked that they were all fast paced. No slow burners here!

And even though every story was very satisfying there is a select few I wish I could read more of. It's set in a world where no one feels misery. Only when you find out why no one feels misery you'll have a hard time trying not to feel a little sick or a lot sick in my case! Overall I can see why authors would agree to write these short stories for a collection because I will most certainly be looking into the above threes other works. So a great book if you're a huge fan of dystopian and are looking for some new authors to check out all at the same time!

Mar 24, Lexie rated it liked it Shelves: The interesting thing about this collection is that quite a few of the authors aren't normally YA authors. Amanda Downum for instance writes fantasy and John Shirley writes a lot of media tie-in fiction for games and movies.

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Also there's about twice as much LGBT fiction in here then any other anthology I've read in genre fiction not specifically geared in that direction. In that, I found this worth reading.

It fails however in that yes its a dystopic future, but very few of the s Prelim Review: It fails however in that yes its a dystopic future, but very few of the stories give us plausible reasons why, implausible but at least entertaining reasons why or even any reason why. Is everyone using this drug to keep the people docile? Is this a government thing or is it a corporation thing? Many of these stories fail to give a reason how the story got to be in a bleak or at least strictly controlled totalitarian regime future. I also wish there was a more unified approach to length of story. I read this on my Kindle, so I don't know the exact amount of pages, but some really seemed to drag on while others just abruptly ended which may have more to do with the writing then the length.

Full review to be posted at Poisoned Rationality Jun 04, Christine rated it liked it. If I could, I would've given this book 2. But rounded up since there were a number of stories I liked. Though after the first two stories, I really wanted to put down this book because of the cruddy quality of the short stories, but I'm glad I kept reading because I did encounter a few that I liked Berserker Eyes, Arose From Poetry, Seekers in the City.

But I also encountered quite a few that I disliked for whatever reason. Some had a completely unbelievable world that If I could, I would've given this book 2. Some had a completely unbelievable world that was obviously not well thought out Foundlings, Red, Now Purple With Love's Wound, The Dream Eater some were just plain confusing Otherwise, The Empty Pocket and some just weren't enjoyable Hidden Ribbon, The Salt and the Sky, The Up I'm sure the idea of a fifteen year old girl having babies with a thirty plus year old makes others, not just me, uncomfortable too.

I had a feeling that most of these stories focused more on the development of the romance than the development of the dystopian world. It was kind of disappointing. But one thing I appreciated about this book wad that it just didn't have hetero relationships but gay and lesbian ones too. I'm glad some authors believe in the future there will be more acceptance for LGBT relationships. Mar 07, Michelle rated it it was ok Shelves: I generally enjoy dystopias so this compilation sounded intriguing.

The Clearing by Kiera Cass. Mackenzie is kidnapped from her home by Dylan,a thief who usually only steals food to feed the small group of people I generally enjoy dystopias so this compilation sounded intriguing. Mackenzie is kidnapped from her home by Dylan,a thief who usually only steals food to feed the small group of people living outside. Of course there is a good reason they choose to live apart from average society. Decent amount of world building for the short amount of time. Berserker Eyes by Maria V Snyder.

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Kate has lived in the compound her whole life afraid that her genetics will catch up to her and she will go into a berserker rage. Jayden is newly arrived to the compound. Having lived outside for many years, he has a totally different perspective of what the compound is really doing. Nice action, only hints of the world outside. Elspa is bonded to Thom using a chemical compound and sets out to prove her love is real.

Very little worldbuilding, ready made love, little character interaction, and unresolved ending. Mar 15, Hermione marked it as dnf Shelves: Berserker Eyes was amazing. I guess the stories being a compilation, it would be hard to try to mention the beginning, middle, and climax in a page novelette. So I understand that. And because I didn't finish this book except for the few stories above, I will not give this book a rating. Aug 04, Dani rated it liked it Shelves: My favorite love story was the one by Kiera Cass. With evil Monica after Mackenzie for falling for Dylan-its awesome!

Some of the love stories were confusing and hard to understand, but ok. I hope the authors take these mini stories and make them into a book! Oct 05, Justine rated it liked it. I felt like I was left hanging. But overall lacklustre at best. Jun 19, Maddie rated it it was ok Shelves: I give this book a 2. Synder, but many of the short stories were poorly written. Also, most of the short stories focused manly on romance instead of the dystopian world. Overall, I believe some of these short stories deserve 4 stars while others deserve 1 star.

Oct 17, Amelia rated it liked it Shelves: I don't often read short stories, for the simple reason that I don't often enjoy them. When an author is constrained to a short space, it is very hard for them to build realistic, rounded characters and worlds and to have much in the way of plot development. Even the best writers often fall far short of the mark. But this one arrived in my inbox and I thought - well, it's free, I'll give it a shot.

It's difficult to accurately rate an anthology - some stories I thought held a lot of promise. Othe I don't often read short stories, for the simple reason that I don't often enjoy them. Others I felt were a waste of time. One thing I did particularly like was the sheer amount of stories which dealt with so-called alternative relationships.

This felt pretty brave for something aimed at a mainstream market. Otherwise was probably my favourite such relationship because of the idea of being in love with more than one person at the same time. Red was interesting too although the thought of kissing a zombie did make me gag a little, I must admit! I wasn't so keen on The Salt Sea and the Sky which had cliche ridden characters, a rather dull world and almost no plot development whatsoever. A couple of the stories had really good relationship building, which I really liked. Foundlings was one of these, although in this case it was the relationship between the twins as opposed to the romantic one that I loved.

I also felt it was an interesting premise. Control of reproduction is quite a common feature in dystopian literature, but I liked how this one was done and I really wish it had been made into a full length story! I also liked Seekers in the City. Admittedly in this one the dystopian element was largely an afterthought, but the search for a person you've seen for a brief second and been dreaming of I thought was just lovely.

Maybe I am a romantic at heart after all! And finally The Dream Eater - really promising premise and the Cruce was absolutely fascinating. A couple of the stories were rather confusing, particularly The Empty Pocket. It's difficult to say much about this one because honestly I have no idea whatsoever what happened. Maybe I was just having a thick moment but The other one with the potential to be confusing was , but in this case it was confusing in a good way.

The main character, orphaned, outcast, bereft of any human affection falls in love with a girl who may or may not exist. The editor is brilliant in the choices made for this book, and while it is not a mainstream book, if confused and twisted future worlds are your destination, this book is your ticket to those worlds. I was rather disappointed with this book. Out of the 15 short stories, I liked 4. Many of the stories, probably due to the short story format, simply led up to the meeting of the lovers or the discovery of their love--they didn't really get a chance to focus on the romance itself, just lead up to it and leave you hanging once things actually got interesting.

As a disclaimer, I have nothing against homosexual relationships, it just doesn't particularly float my boat to read about them since I can't personally relate. About half the stories in this book are about homosexual relationships. Had I known that beforehand, I probably wouldn't have purchased the book. I like romances because I can imagine myself as the heroine and how it feels falling in love, which I can't do when it's a homosexual relationship.

Regardless of some of the stories being about homosexual relationships, most of the stories just were not well written and were simply not engaging. Some of them were just plain hard to follow due to all the unexplained dystopian future terminology. The only stories I actually liked were: I'm going to review each story separately, then review the volume as a whole. Giorgio was running from some thugs when he came upon Felice's little hidey-hole in dystopic Los Angeles The two hit it off, but given a choice will they choose each other? Its quick, but given to telling us what the two are talking about rather then showing us so there's an inorganic feel to the bond they form.

The ending is kind of a cop out, since the choice Felice is given isn't really a choice considering her personality , but its sweet. I'll warn for same-sex pairing, since some folk like to be told about that. There was never a question of if they'd be together. The question had always been for how long? This had less of a dystopic feel to me then some of the others. Maybe because it was set in Ireland and most dystopias I read are set in America or Australia oddly enough. This is also less about the love story the two have and more about what that love means to the narrator and how it could change her plans.

For once in his life Dylan chose something for himself, too bad that something turned out to be a someone. Now if he can't convince her that something is wrong, everyone is in trouble. Ignoring the romance, because this was almost Stockholm Syndrome Romance and that squicks me a bit, I was fascinated by the world. Of course its kind of like the world of Miranda from the film "Serenity" with drugging the population into complacency. Just with less death. I have a feeling if this had gone on much longer and its easily the longest story in the collection I would have thrown it across the room, the characters grated on my nerves.

Note there's a same sex pairing here as well. Aim was everything Lo wanted in one package, but was that enough? And if it wasn't, was Lo prepared to risk everything so Aim can be happy? This is another drug as a dystopia future--except this one was more like 'Here take this hallucinatory drug so you can have the fantasy life you always wanted'. The mechanics are a bit iffy--the world that isn't Otherwise is dominated by the uber-rich So I spent more time thinking about that then the overly dramatic romance.

Elspa was given the highest honor in the land, but for her it was incomplete without Thom's heart. This really felt out of place. Aside from the one odd mention of indoor plumbing, this was easily a fantasy short story. Still I really enjoyed it and thought it worked well as a concept and in execution. I would love to see this expanded, but then again I think this ended appropriately.

Snyder Hands down Snyder is in my top five favorite writers. Even the books which I'm so-so on are usually better then most others. So yes, I looked forward to this story and bought the collection almost exclusively for it. Kate had always heard that to go Berserker was the absolute worst thing that could happen--you're a threat to everyone you love then.

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But what if that's a lie? I want this as a novel. Anything at all that gets me more of Kate is a good thing. While the beginning has a bit too much exposition right off the bat, Snyder packs a punch in how close two people can be with very few words. Well worth the money spent. And I couldn't bring myself to read it. I think its same sex pairing however.

But with a secret as big as hers to keep and a new family she doesn't want to lose, can she afford to seek out the truth? This didn't read like a short story, this read more like a novel that had bits cut out and the bare essentials pasted together. I wouldn't specifically label this as a 'romance' same sex or otherwise since [insert name] doesn't see Felice that way, but as a kindred spirit more like.

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