Some people don't like this book because it's totally confusing and never gives you a straight answer.However, that's why I liked it! Every couple pages I would just stare at the pages with bewilderment. By the very end I was screeching "what??? What!!???!? WHAT!!???!?"It is totally baffling. Aga...
Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.comMAGIC LESSONS is the second book in Justine Larbalestier's trilogy, and it's just as wonderful and gripping as MAGIC OR MADNESS! In this book, there are just as many questions as in the first, as every answer Reason finds only leads to more questions...
In the third installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy, the people Reason Cansino loves most are all in danger. Reason's mother, Sarafina, has disappeared from the mental hospital in Sydney with Reason's evil grandfather, Jason Blake. Jay-Tee, the closest thing Reason has to a best friend, has ...
A thicket of flowers crowded the lobby. White lilies among them. The perfume was overpowering. “Mr. Davidson,” Raymond the day doorman said in lieu of good morning. “Bit more of them than usual.” He handed her the card. Flowers for my flower “Those are funeral flowers,” Jimmy said. “The bastard.”...
After three days it had all fallen off, but the damage was done. My mother stopped trusting my father because it was a family condition he had not told her about. One of many omissions and lies. My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I...
Plus Tea. “Does she do that a lot?” Camille asked as Francis held Cathy’s supine body in his arms and gently splashed water in her face. “She hasn’t been eating,” I replied. “Because of her broken heart.” I really wanted Francis to put her down, but he was holding her so gently and looked so conc...
I was completely awake, with no groggy feeling of being between sleep and awakeness, yet I didn’t recognise anything. Not the PJs I was wearing, or the single bed with white sheets, or the doona fallen to the ground. It was hot, which was odd, because I remembered being cold. I slid out of the be...
Mom and Dad were in bed reading. They caled out their helos and good nights. I returned them trying not to sound as tired as I felt. I stumbled into my room, dumped my backpack, tried to feel pleased about the three demerits I’d just wiped out, then plugged my tablet into the big screen on my des...