Sorry for the unexpected brake in posting – like many of my friends, I spent the New Year and most of the first week of 2012 at home drinking hot tea and waiting for my throat to stop feeling as though it were filled with crushed glass. [We have apparently been passing plague around.] Anyhow, I am back among the living-if-not-truly-well so back to sharing my rambles with the world. :D
I know it has been discussed quite often, but I am fascinated by the rise in dystopian literature targeted toward the YA audience. What, exactly, is the appeal of reading about a world where society, and sometimes the planet, has collapsed? Does it make readers feel better about the state of the current world? Personally, I am an escapist reader and I always have certain reservations about reading dystopian lit. If I’m reading to escape the bad in my own life why would I want to read about a world come apart at the seams? But the allure is there. I believe it is something of the “what if” factor; people love to play at knowing how they would react in a certain situation.My two favorite dystopian novels of 2011 were:
Wither by Lauren Destefano
& Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Why do you (or don’t you) read Dystopias?
