Snatched
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When Kara was ten, the shifters took her parents. A year ago, they took her best friend Hunter. ...
science fiction dystopian post apocalyptic young adult monsters
Through the Storm (The Solar Storms #1)
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An immense storm on the sun has flung four coronal mass ejections at the Earth. That’s the...
Post Apocalyptic Book series
South
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South takes place in a USA ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne...
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The Genes of Isis by Justin Newland
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Akasha is a precocious young woman who lives in a world where oceans circulate in the aquamarine sky...
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David McK (3562 KP) rated A Quiet Place (2018) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 10, 2023)
They lied.
Slow, plodding, and lacking any sense of peril or tension, this is set in a post-apocalyptic world where seemingly invulnerable blind monsters (which we're never told where they come from) hunt by sound, and sound alone - which explains why there's not even any bird song. This then follows a tight-knit family trying to survive in this new reality, complete with a deaf kid and a mother about to give birth.
Yes, all the cliches are here: creaking floorboards, jagged nails sticking up from the wood, a kid who blames herself for the loss of her younger sibling early on in the film ...
About the only good thing I can say is that this is short, with a running time of just over 1.5 hours.
David McK (3562 KP) rated Elevation (2024) in Movies
Mar 9, 2025 (Updated Mar 9, 2025)
With his son sick and running out of life-saving medicine, Mackie's character Will resolves to travel 'below the line' to the nearest hospital, alongside his now-deceased wife's best friend and the woman whom he blames for said wife's death, in an attempt to procure more medicine and return back home with the same.
Film has a mid-credit scene, that sets up where the sequel (if it comes!) will go!
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Book of the Unnamed Midwife in Books
Oct 24, 2017 (Updated Oct 24, 2017)
After a fever kills most of the Earth's population, specifically women and children, making childbirth deadly, a midwife attempts to survive an extremely precarious situation for her gender. In the new world, women are routinely raped and sold, used as baby making machines and commodified as a bartering tool.
Her only option is to disguise herself as a man and attempt to make her way across the country in search for a beacon of hope. She faces age-old prejudices, such as religion and patriarchy, while trying to be a guide to humanity.
No doubt, it is extremely dark, and some of it is very disturbing, so brace yourself for feeling a little queasy.