Review by Toni Whitmont: You are only young once, but doesn’t it go on for a long time, more years than you can bear. This is not the way my day was supposed to start, waking a couple of hours before dawn and then reading compulsively until I reached sobbing stage at the final few [...]
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A Monster Calls reminds us of what the very finest of children’s and young adult fiction can be.
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The publicity blurb on this one says it is a one-sit read, and I quite agree. I can’t wait for the next book in the series. It really is excellent, pacey stuff.
Filed under: Fantasy, Fiction, Review, Young Adult | Tagged: Anna Karenina, Chaos Walking, Hunger Games, I am Number Four, Keith Richards, Leo Tolstoy, Life, Luca and the Fire of Life, Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness, Pittacus Lore, Salman Rushdie | 1 Comment »
Please Give a Warm Welcome to our Guest, Amelia Vahtrick – Blogger, Bookseller and Editor of Booktopia’s 6 – 12 Buzz. Over to You Amelia! I am a big book nerd. I work in books. I decorate my house in books (not so much out of an aesthetic desire, simply because there are SO many [...]
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Patrick Ness, (Chaos Walking, The Ask and the Answer) is coming to Sydney and is giving a free lecture. Details here.
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I hereby give to you today, the title of the final volume of the Chaos Walking trilogy:
Monsters of Men.
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