Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase stop on the Socialpunk Blog Tour! You can find links to the other blogs taking part on the socialpunktrilogy.com site, but make sure you enter the giveaway below my review first!
Title: Socialpunk (Goodreads)
Author: 
Monica Leonelle (@monicaleonelle)
Rating: 
Ima would give anything to escape The Dome and learn what’s beyond its barriers, but the Chicago government has kept all its citizens on lockdown ever since the Scorched Years left most of the world a desert wasteland. When a mysterious group of hooded figures enters the city unexpectedly, Ima uncovers a plot to destroy The Dome and is given the choice between escaping to a new, dangerous city or staying behind and fighting a battle she can never win.
Details
Series: Socialpunk Trilogy (1 of 3)
Genre: YA Dystopia/Cyberpunk
Published: Spaulding House, March 27 2012
My copy: Review e-copy from the Author
Paper copies: Amazon.com
E-copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Barnes & Noble
Review
I really enjoyed reading this book – the action just keeps on rolling and I found it very difficult to stop reading!
At first, Socialpunk looks a lot like another YA dystopia I read recently, Divergent. Like Divergent, Socialpunk is set in a future Chicago, cut off from the rest of the world. There’s some jumping on trains and joining of social groups, here called a “hash” rather than a faction, but that’s really where the similarities ended.
Socialpunk is filled with interesting future tech – cybernetics, creative art directly from thoughts and food in pill form, to name but a few things. It’s a fascinating society as well, although we don’t get to hear as much about how it all works as I would have liked. What are the hashes for? Perhaps we’ll find out in the future books.
The story is action-packed and very compelling. I found the love polygon a little overdone for my tastes – it seems everyone is in love with someone else, but the relationships are all very sweet. Ima herself is a strong and determined girl with a past that makes her vulnerable. I do think that I’d put up a bit more of a fight if someone was trying to implant cybernetics in me, though!
Fans of high-tech dystopian stories will love Socialpunk. I know I’m looking forward to the next instalment, Socialmob, due for release in July 2012.
Giveaway
Monica Leonelle is holding a tour-wide giveaway to promote the launch of the Socialpunk Trilogy, open Internationally!
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