Brave New Love - Paula Guran Spoiler Free Review

Title - Brave New Love
Author / Edited By - Paula Guran
ISBN - 9781849016018
Genre - YA > Dystopian
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US 

Brave New Love is an Anthology of 15 Tales of  Love and Desire set in Dystopian worlds, from a community Underground to children being locked in compounds being trained love is everywhere but sometimes you have to fight for it as well as your life. These are compelling, emotionally - charged stories of young lives lived in desperate circumstances can love really survive when you are fighting for your life and have no idea what is around the corner? 

I have very mixed views on this book honestly it wasn't worth reading the entire way through i could pick out some amazing stories but most of them were wither really bad or just not worth reading and some of them just were not clear enough i think two of them didn't even tell you the main narrators name and if I'm being honest it was very difficult to read at times. 

I do have good things to say about this this book had lots of stories with LGBT themes which I'm glad there are more of now because it would be discrimination to only have straight characters in a book with 15 stories about love, so i glad there was a variety so i wasn't as boring as it would have been reading pretty much the same love story over and over again just in a different setting. 

One of the main problems for me was there wasn't really any original story lines most of them i have seen in other books on my shelf and that really bugged me because it felt like i was having Deja Vu all the time. 

But as i said before there were some that were really good like ...

The Salt Sea & The Sky - Elizabeth Bear
The Clearing - Kiera Cass
Now Purple With Loves Wound - Carrie Vaughn
Burserker - Maria V. Snyder
Foundlings - Diana Peterfreund
Seeker in The City - Jeanne DuParu
The Up - Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Out of 15 that's less than half that for me were actually worth reading so honestly i hope you read it and judge it for yourself but if you don't just read some of these stories and i promise you wont be disappointed. 

Until Next Time
Happy Reading