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    Deviants
    Deviants
    Deviants
    Audiobook8 hours

    Deviants

    Written by Maureen McGowan

    Narrated by Tara Sands

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In Glory’s world, different means deviant—and dead.

    In a post-apocalyptic world, where the earth is buried by asteroid dust that’s mutated the DNA of some humans, an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Glory, must hide and protect her younger brother. If their Deviant abilities are discovered, they’ll be expunged—kicked out of the dome to be tortured and killed by the Shredders. Glory would give anything to get rid of her unique ability to kill with her emotions, especially when Cal, the boy she’s always liked, becomes a spy for the authorities. But when her brother is discovered, and she learns their father, who was expunged for killing their mother, is still alive, she must escape the domed city that’s been her entire world.

    Outside in the ruins, they’re pursued by the authorities and by sadistic, scab-covered Shredders who are addicted to the lethal-to-humans dust now covering the planet. Glory’s quests to transport herself and her brother to safety make up the thrilling and fascinating first volume of The Dust Chronicles.

    The author of Deviants has donated this book to the Worldreader program.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781469205441
    Deviants
    Author

    Maureen McGowan

    Maureen McGowan left a career in finance and software development to pursue her love of fiction, honing her craft as a novelist. Aside from her love of the printed word, she’s passionate about art, dance, films, fine handcrafted objects, and shoes. She lives and writes in Toronto, Canada.

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    • 4/5
      Good

      Good plot. Kept me interested and I liked the way things developed. I am excited to rad the next book.
    • 5/5
      Deviants (Dust Chronicles #1) by Maureen McGowanVery good book! Quick easy read that kept me going back for more. I will definitely continue on and read the rest of the series. I wasn't sure if I would like this book but it was the Samsung free kindle pick for the month and I thought might as well give it a chance, and I'm glad I did!
    • 1/5
      Why do you do this to me, dystopian YA fiction? Why?! You lure me in with the promise of a good time like a well-dressed stranger offering free Nutella jars & Klondike bars, and then you backhand me with your nonsense, bore me half to death, and leave me facepalming alone in the dark. Not cool. Ugh! This book...I don’t even know where to begin. It was so incredibly superficial in every single freakin’ way. The characters, the plot, the emotions, the conflicts, and the world-building were hardly developed at all. There was no depth to any aspects of the story. It was all so very sketchy & oversimplified.Trademark dystopian elements (e.g. corrupt totalitarian government, social conditioning/control via propaganda & fear, environmental disaster, mass oppression, etc.) were haphazardly assembled, poorly fleshed out, and left mostly unexplored. The description of the world the story takes place in was shoddy at best (with notable inconsistencies), and its origins were blatantly disregarded with the following cop out: “No one knows why the dust killed most life on earth. No one knows why Shredders can feed off the dust, or why some people became Deviant, neither Normals nor Shredders. If someone does know, Management’s not telling.”The female protagonist, Glory, was no less shallow. Quite frankly, she annoyed the bloody hell out of me. She was a self-absorbed, wishy-washy, fickle drama queen that spent a great majority of the book bitching & moaning about how much her life sucks and saying angsty shit like this: “A girl whose emotions kill isn’t meant to have love.”Oh and it gets better (and by better, I mean worse…much, much worse). Whenever Glory wasn’t indulging in internal Woe Is Me monologues (as well as her raging hormones), she was doing her best Bella Swan impersonation by clinging onto her very stoic love interest like a spider monkey. I wish I was joking.Now, very early on in the book, I got the impression that I was supposed to view Glory as a strong, brave, independent heroine. Yeeaah...any minute potential of that happening was completely obliterated the instant love interest #2 showed up on the scene (yes, there are two love interests, which means there is a shitty love triangle). Once “Burn” sauntered over with his Tarzan routine (minimal verbal skills included), Glory was stripped of her Girl Scout badges and demoted to Damsel in Distress status. Hmm...me thinks certain YA fiction authors might not fully comprehend what it means to be a heroine. Let’s break it down, shall we. A heroine is a female version of a hero. Heroes tend to be courageous, tough, capable, noble, and regarded as role models. So, keeping that in mind, how about we do a little gender role swapping experiment and consider the following story-based scenario: You meet a cute, heroic boy. You feel an instant connection. Suddenly, a bunch of bad guys come after the two of you. You grab your hero by the hand and go on the run together. Unfortunately said boy is slow & weak, and so you're forced to carry him on your back. A lot. And when you're not piggybacking him around from place to place, you're wearing him like a fanny pack ‘cos he's scared & fragile, is unable to adequately protect himself, and apparently has unreliable motor function skills. Plus, just when you thought your hero could prove himself useful with his deadly superpower, you find out that he passes out after using it and thus you're forced to carry him to safety. Again. On top of that he whines all the time, wallows in self-pity, and repeatedly disregards your justified warnings & logical advice, choosing instead to make irrational, impulsive decisions that accomplish nothing aside from putting him in dangerous situations that result in you having to risk your young, precious life to save his pansy ass.Inspiring and oh-so romantic, isn’t it? No? I’ll take a wild stab in the dark and venture to say that you found the above description of the hero to be rather laughable and not very heroic in the slightest bit. Than why is it acceptable to paint our heroine in such a way? Come on authors! Give us complex, intelligent, resilient, self-sufficient female characters whose existence & value isn’t based on the male love interests. Is that really too much to ask for? [Side Note: While we're on the topic of love interests, what the frak is up with the wacky, novelty names (Burn, Four, Fade, Day, etc.)? Reminds me of 1995 when after watching Hackers my friends and I tried to give ourselves cool hacker aliases despite the fact that none of us owned a computer at the time and the only things we knew how to hack were fruits & vegetables. In other words, it seems rather contrived & silly. Are the unique names supposed to make up for the fact that not a single one of these dudes has an original personality?]Anyways, to sum things up, Deviants was a disappointment. It was derivative, predictable, and devoid of any suspense or excitement. The characters were lame, the romance was vapid, and the plot was virtually nonexistent. Next!
    • 4/5
      The Dome is the last community of human survivors on an asteroid-devastated Earth, which is now the province of savage Shredders and lethal Dust. Or so say the privileged elite who run the Dome. But when orphaned, 16-year-old Glory--whose power to kill with a glance makes her one of the Deviants who are feared and hated by the Dome's inhabitants--is forced to run for her life to protect her crippled brother, she discovers that the world, and the Dome, are nothing like she has been taught to believe.The repressive society that brainwashes its members in order to perpetuate its survival is a familiar dystopian trope. Familiar also is Glory's first-person present-tense narrative voice, and the love triangle that presents her with two toothsome potential boyfriends (each, of course, with a dark side). DEVIANTS doesn't feel derivative, however, due to McGowan's solid writing, well-drawn characters, and clever worldbuilding. The deteriorating Dome--where the bulk of the population ekes out a hardscrabble existence, with all the necessities of life in short supply, while the elites live in secret luxury--is vividly portrayed; its terminology and organization subtly reveal its origins as some kind of end-of-the-world corporate refuge, though so much time has passed since the original disaster that none of its inhabitants remember this (except maybe the privileged few who run things). Glory is brave, resourceful, and believably conflicted, making hard decisions because there's no one else to make them, risking everything to protect and care for her brother and to hide her own secret Deviancy.There's plenty of action, mystery, and suspense, but also quieter moments for reflection and insight--a nice contrast to some other dystopians, where non-stop action eventually exhausts the reader's attention (not to mention his/her suspension of disbelief).DEVIANTS finishes on a satisfying note. But it's the first of a trilogy, and the conclusion leaves many mysteries unresolved, and Glory poised at the edge of a new and dangerous quest. I'm looking forward to the next installment of this promising series.