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A review by cjyu
XVI by Julia Karr
3.0
I can't rate this book exactly, this book is more than a rating.
This is our culture explored in the most creepiest way possible- showing us what WILL happen if we let society continue. Ed was.. GODS, I don't even want to say it, disgusting, atrocious, everything that gives me nightmares. How he could be like that, IT WAS DISGUSTING. AND THE THINGS HE SAID TO NINA... I don't blame Nina on her accidental killing, I'd thrust a sword through his heart and grind that guy up into meat sauce and feed him to the sharks. Good riddance. How Dee can find him so trusting... UGGGH.
Not to mention media- the influence of media was INSANE here. I've watched a movie on the influence of media, it's happening now, around us, JUST LOOK. So many things about media are affecting us, and if we don't stop letting it control us, what happens in XVI, will ultimately happen to us. (Gee, now I wish I read this book before my English final. I could've used to to prove some insane points of the effects of society media has.) Look at the media, it makes girls want to be those "sex-teens" and go into FeLS, which is just a fancy cover up of sex slavery, which disgusts me. I was swearing out loud when I read that.
XVI was not really dystopian novel- more of a scary novel showing us how the world will be if we allow all the things we said to go on. A scary future. There has no doubts that this has opened me up into the other scary perspectives of our culture today.
I suppose the romance with Sal was the only soothing thing in this novel- like a balm for the wounds when you read about these horrific scenes in the book.
This is our culture explored in the most creepiest way possible- showing us what WILL happen if we let society continue. Ed was.. GODS, I don't even want to say it, disgusting, atrocious, everything that gives me nightmares. How he could be like that, IT WAS DISGUSTING. AND THE THINGS HE SAID TO NINA... I don't blame Nina on her accidental killing, I'd thrust a sword through his heart and grind that guy up into meat sauce and feed him to the sharks. Good riddance. How Dee can find him so trusting... UGGGH.
Not to mention media- the influence of media was INSANE here. I've watched a movie on the influence of media, it's happening now, around us, JUST LOOK. So many things about media are affecting us, and if we don't stop letting it control us, what happens in XVI, will ultimately happen to us. (Gee, now I wish I read this book before my English final. I could've used to to prove some insane points of the effects of society media has.) Look at the media, it makes girls want to be those "sex-teens" and go into FeLS, which is just a fancy cover up of sex slavery, which disgusts me. I was swearing out loud when I read that.
XVI was not really dystopian novel- more of a scary novel showing us how the world will be if we allow all the things we said to go on. A scary future. There has no doubts that this has opened me up into the other scary perspectives of our culture today.
I suppose the romance with Sal was the only soothing thing in this novel- like a balm for the wounds when you read about these horrific scenes in the book.