The backlog is rapidly dwindling.
Scatterheart, by Lili Wilkinson
First time novelist Lili WIlkinson has launched her fiction career in a big way with Scatterheart. Telling the story of a young girl sentenced to transportation, Wilkinson takes the reader on a vivid journey across the ocean to the convict settlement in Australia. I wouldn’t really call it a novel about convicts though. It’s a novel about a girl who becomes a woman, it’s a novel about love and caring, it’s a novel about friendship and loss. It’s a novel you should read.
The last days, by Scott Westerfeld
Sort of a sequel to Peeps, The last days is set in the same vampire infested New York and follows the prior novel chronologically but has a different format and different characters for most of the book. Read Peeps first, but do read it. Westerfeld has come up with a clever take on vampirism and The last days develops this world further.
The magic in the weaving (Circle of magic book 1), by Tamora Pierce
The first of four titles in Tamora Pierce’s Circle of magic series. It was good, but failed to really grab me. if you like your fantasy books with a good dose of magic, then give it a go. I know plenty of other people who like her work, but this is the first I have read by Pierce. I’m not sure if I will read the rest of the series, but may try one of her other titles instead.
Notes from a teenage underground, by Simmone Howell
This is one of those times when I could really kick myself for not writing about books straight after I have read them. I read Notes from a teenage underground late last year and can barely remember it. One thing I can remember is that I loved it. It won the Golden Inky award last year over at insideadog.com.au.
The house of the scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
Another that was read so long ago I am struggling to remember the details. Matteo is a clone growing up, oblivious to his true nature, in a country called Opium between the borders of USA and Mexico. The story sees Matteo gradually learn more about the world he lives in and his part in it.
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