Books by Lauren McLaughlin
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review 1: Scored has the potential to be an amazing novel. On paper, Scored looks like the perfect YA/dystopian novel. It is set a future society whose citizens are constantly monitored by surveillance cameras. Students earn points for doing well in school, staying in the right cliques, an...
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review 1: Wow. This was an amazing dystopian novel that not only had a compelling prompt that is exceptionally relevant today, but actually had mature allusion to meaningful literature and complex discussions about tenuous ideals. I rarely give books 5 stars, but this one was so powerful I...
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review 1: This is one of the books that I think sounds like a really cool premise and then just fails completely. I contemplated stopping part way through but I really wanted it to get better so I kept reading, but it didn't get better. Neither Jack or Jill were likeable. Their mom was ter...
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review 1: This is not an exploration of gender or queerness, like I thought it would be. It also requires you to suspend disbelief, sort of like reading magical realism. It doesn't read like YA, especially not in its sequel. I guess it's more New Adult. It was a fast read and I really did ...
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review 1: Cycler starts off with a bang as Jill's body transforms from male to female after her four day cycle as Jack. Jill begins her cycle repeating her mantra, 'I am all girl.' Her dad, a yoga practicing ex-lawyer who now lives in their basement, suggested the meditation, to use after ...