Top Ten Worlds I’d Never Want to Live in
So this list was actually super hard, friends. I don’t often find myself NOT liking the worlds in the books I read. I might not like the way the world is built, but I don’t often find myself thinking that I’d never want to experience the places in the books even one time. Except for possibly these ten times.
So, I kind of just didn’t like these books friends. I had a hard time with The Society, and with understanding it. That’s partly why I’m not dying to live there. But any place that picks my husband for me and keeps me from learning things not sanctioned by them is an immediate thumbs down from me.
I, for one, am always looking for jungle books. Fantasy books set in jungles?! SHUT THE FRONT DOOR. This book has both. That being said, I’d probably not want to live here. It’s basically a physical manifestation of the ugliest parts of colonization, as well as blatant racism. No thanks.
I feel like the world in this series didn’t feel too different from normal society right now sometimes. Except for that pesky detail of love being a sickness that needs to be eradicated. Blah. And again with the matchmaking. Double blah. Pass.
This world just CREEPED me the eff out. I can’t imagine being completely cut off from the rest of the world like Katie and her community are and THEN having to live in clueless fear of vampires. EEEP! DO NOT WANT.
This school is basically a closely confined place where legit crazy lives and competes murderously and ruthlessly for domination. Definitely not.
UGH. So another book that I wasn’t crazy about, but I liked it well enough. But this prison was just a really dark place, both literally and figuratively. I felt dirty and gross reading about it. Friends, please save me from having to live in a place like this.
Life in the Heartland sounds ABYSMAL. There’s chemicals in the air and people’s teeth are rotting and it’s like attack of the killer corn there. Plus there’s those rich asshat snobs living on the flotillas, flaunting their superior lifestyle. No. I mean, I liked reading about it, but no.
ZOMBIES. EPIC PASS.
You know, it’s not the aliens really that bother me about the post-apocalyptic America in this book. It’s the not knowing that I don’t love. The fear, the mistrust, the psychological wtfery–those things get to me. I don’t think I’d last very long there. If I was even lucky enough to live through waves 1-4, that is.
Perhaps there are some cool things about the Nevernever. Fairy world! That’s fun, right?! Magic etc. But I don’t know. Living at the whim of fickle fairy queens is a little touchy to me. And for all the amazing things in the Nevernever, there are horrible things, too. Plus you could land there for what seems like only five minutes and be gone for 100 human years and never see your loved ones again. WAHHH! I’ll make do without it.
Delirium was on my list. Any zombie world was on my list too, but I picked This is Not a Test for my photo! 🙂 Incarceron should have made my list too! Great choices!
TTT
Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Yeah, any post=apocalyptic, dystopian society – I definitely wouldn’t want to live there. Oh, and no to the Fey world! I cannot handle the fey.
I also took an epic pass on zombies. This Is Not a Test scared the crap out of me. I could not freaking deal with the constant tension and fear. I’d work myself into a fit of hysterics, crash and fall asleep and promptly get eaten. No thanks.