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I am an unashamed fan of young adult fiction especially with some dystopia to boot. Some of the best writing is occurring in this genre if you ask me. I have a theory that in today's post politically correct environment many authors are afraid to write anything more offensive than the young adult genre but I digress It does not hurt that this novel is set in my home town of Kansas City in the year of our Lord 2300. I like the allegory that revolution is brewing in our country right now as we rebel against the Patriot Act, Nanny State, TSA, DHS, never ending wars George Orwell laid out in 1984, GMO's, Glyphosates, Monsanto and we could increase the list ad infinitum. Some day the people plugged into the Matrix of TV, Facebook, and video games will wake up to a world too intolerable and revolt.


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Landry Park eBook Bethany Hagen Reviews

Full disclosure I've never met Bethany Hagen personally but my sister is acquainted with her and on her recommendation I bought this book. I was not asked to review it.

I'm really into this genre. I blame Hunger Games. This book while being from the same genre has a different flavor than Hunger Games and Divergent. I found this book both engaging and fast paced. I've preordered the sequel.
Hagen’s melodic tone and gorgeous descriptions provide a comfort reminiscent of an Austin novel. Landry Park takes place in a future that returns to the regency of the past. Madeline Landry has been sheltered among the high class gentry society of ball gowns, debuts, and arranged marriages, but when the disgruntled (mistreated, dying) lower class begin to make waves, the tide carries her in a new direction – towards change and towards a particular boy.

I appreciate the beauty of Bethany Hagen’s narration. I’ve been missing YA books like this one.

Will most definitely be reading Jubilee Manor.
A suspenseful story set in a dystopian future that, unsettlingly, doesn’t seem all that far-fetched.

In the not-too-distant future Kansas City of this novel (and in the broader US), economic status is everything. Human society is sharply divided between the Haves (the Gentry) and the Have Nots (the Rootless), and the two sides are at war, even if Madeline isn’t fully aware of that fact at novel’s outset.

So, when we first meet the story’s 17 year old heroine, Madeline, she's carried along by circumstances mostly beyond her control. It’s an exploration of power and powerlessness that, for me, rings authentic. After all, your teen years are about shedding off your upbringing and getting to define who you want to be as an adult.

Madeline’s awakening to her circumstances and the truth about the people she cares about don't come all at once. But once she takes a fateful journey to the Rootless sections of town to see first hand what life is really like, Madeline starts taking the reins of her own fate.

An impressive debut novel. I’m looking forward to finding out how this series, and especially its main character, evolves and resolves. I really enjoyed it, and recommend it to fans of YA.
Having read The Selection and being a hardcore viewer of Downton Abbey, I’m not sure Landry Park fits the bill as a merger of both media.

It’s more like a dystopia/science fiction version of Diamonds and Deceit, but without the addicting page-turner-ness.

What I liked best about Landry Park was the new-Victorian era and reversion to status that is created in a futuristic setting.

Madeline Landry’s family is at the very top of society because Madeline’s grandfather invented a power source that has replaced all other sources, after all the wars, etc.

As a heroine, Madeline is not my favorite. She’s the classic “I like books not people” type of character who behind being shy and quiet has a blah personality. I wanted to like her, but I never saw her do anything that made me think “wow, this girl is spunky/funny/interesting.”

Also, the love situation. Ugh. It was drawn out and dramatic for no reason. I wasn’t feeling it at all.

Then there’s the whole storyline. I’m sorry, but I’ve just been there, done this before. It’s like every other dystopia just with a different, more fancy dress setting. “Oh, my society is hiding things from me! I should rebel, right? Right!”

As you can tell, I wasn’t overly thrilled with this book. Although the pace was good and the story filled with surprises and twists, I found myself distanced. I just didn’t feel very much reading Landry Park.

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If a book setting can make or break it for you, then this novel’s faults can be overcome for you. As for me, the watery personality heroine and the ridiculous romance wasn’t enough to make me recommend Landry Park to fellow readers.
I am an unashamed fan of young adult fiction especially with some dystopia to boot. Some of the best writing is occurring in this genre if you ask me. I have a theory that in today's post politically correct environment many authors are afraid to write anything more offensive than the young adult genre but I digress It does not hurt that this novel is set in my home town of Kansas City in the year of our Lord 2300. I like the allegory that revolution is brewing in our country right now as we rebel against the Patriot Act, Nanny State, TSA, DHS, never ending wars George Orwell laid out in 1984, GMO's, Glyphosates, Monsanto and we could increase the list ad infinitum. Some day the people plugged into the Matrix of TV, Facebook, and video games will wake up to a world too intolerable and revolt.