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Title: Boy 87Author: Ele FountainEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 This is a short and deceptively simple book, following fourteen-year-old Shif as he makes the dangerous journey from his home in Africa to find safety in Europe. The plot is straightforward, and the first-person narration is pared-back, childlike, and sincere. At first glance, the storytelling feels simple, but …
Title: The Third Day, The Frost (Tomorrow #3)Author: John MarsdenEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 Book 3 in the Tomorrow series sees Ellie and her friends fighting back against the invasion of Australia. Ellie’s narration is vivid and engaging, drawing the reader in as the group’s guerilla actions expand in scale, and the friends begin to lose control …
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Title: The Dead of the Night (Tomorrow #2)Author: John MarsdenEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 The second book in the Tomorrow series picks up the story several weeks after the end of Tomorrow When the War Began. The invasion of Australia continues, and Ellie and her friends are in hiding, piecing together the current situation from radio broadcasts …
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Title: Hero at the Fall (Rebel of the Sands #3)Author: Alwyn HamiltonEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 Oh, I loved this book. The final installment in the Rebel of the Sands trilogy brings more peril, more bravery, more sacrifice, and more adventure. The author still doesn’t pull her punches, and with powerful legendary beings stepping into the lives …
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Title: Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands #2)Author: Alwyn HamiltonEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 The sequel to Rebel of the Sands begins with a recap of the first book, told as a campfire legend. It’s an engaging way to begin, but when the story moved past the end of the first book, and summarised what …
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Title: Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands #1)Author: Alwyn HamiltonEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 Deserts! People making a living on the edge of the habitable world! Magic! Escape! Princes! Politics! Rebellion! This book has everything I want in an adventure story, and a strong, brave female protagonist to take me through the action. And there’s …
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Title: Tomorrow When the War Began (Tomorrow #1)Author: John MarsdenEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 I loved this book. I’ve seen the film, and I know how close the themes are to my own writing, so I was interested to read it and see how it compared to the big screen version. And it’s better. Of course it’s …
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Title: Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3)Author: Patrick NessEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 I was planning to take a break before reading Book 3 of the Chaos Walking trilogy, but I found I couldn’t stop. The cliffhanger at the end of Book 2 was too much of a hook, so I jumped straight into Monsters of Men, …
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Title: The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)Author: Patrick NessEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 I picked up the sequel to The Knife of Never Letting Go because I was curious about the story, not because I was hooked. I was expecting more of the same, but this book was much better. I found that I connected …
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Title: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)Author: Patrick NessEdition: PaperbackRating: 3/5 I like Patrick Ness. I enjoyed And the Ocean was our Sky for its ideas and gorgeous imagery, and I loved A Monster Calls for its effective exploration of real-world grief through the framework of a fairy tale. And as I’m …
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