I really enjoyed this book. The author is a fantastic world builder who manages to bring a fantasy world to vivid life. The interactions between Sir Topher, Finnikin, and Evanjalin were real, funny, heartbreaking, poignant, and sometimes harsh, all of which made the characters very three dimensio...
3.5. Hard to rate this book because I can't say it is a three, an average read because I applaud the author for infusing realistic, brutal conflicts into the story. The intellectual part of the plot is above average. However, the weak characters and uninspired plot for an fantasy read do not qual...
SIGH. Melina Marchetta does it yet again! Her ability to throw you entirely into the world of lumatere and its beautiful and terrible inhabitants is unmatched! I could talk about this book forever because it has everything; the writing and language is clear and precise, the characters are multi-f...
I'm putting this on hold for now. Thomas mackee is kinda similar to Adam Wilde from where she went, which is kinda annoying because of their arrogance and bad behavior. To be fair, the first chapter is intense and exciting, the characterization is also excellent. Just by reading chapter 1, you ca...
Melina Marchetta is wicked awesome in her malicious power to make people feel all the SOBS AND PAIN!Bare with me here people. Let's say that one day you wake up. The sun is shining, the air is clean, and your nameless pet licks you on the face. You stretch your arms and feel every muscle in your ...
I have never come across an author whose work I swore by. I've read many great pieces of literature but they stand alone, they are individual. A writer's first novel might leave me uninspired but his second novel might break my heart. Its like music, not every song by a musician is going to be a ...
I'm dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I tell him about Hannah, who lives in the unfinished house by the river. Hannah, who is too young to be...
The first of her university friends are finally engaged, and although she doesn’t feel left behind, she was hoping for good news of her own that day. The junior partnership was within her reach, but those hopes are down to nothing now. The mood has changed around her during the week. Elliot and O...
There had been much change these past months with Beatriss’s people moving to Fenton and the Priest-king opening a shrinehouse in her old village of Sennington. Who would have believed contentment could come to the area after so much upheaval? ‘August and Abian are meeting us in Sennington for su...
‘We go over the mountains,’ she said. ‘The dying man of Turla is waiting.’ The others exchanged a look. When the cold Quintana spoke, there was an uneasiness in them all, even Lirah who knew her best. ‘I say we choose another time for that, Your Highness,’ Gargarin said in a firm, but polite voic...
What kills me most is my inability to remember much of that journey when she drove me to the Jellicoe Road. And I want to. I want to remember the look in her eyes when she realised that she had to let go of the person who was her closest link to Webb. Did she look at me and tell me she loved me? ...
The only person he imagines getting them as accurate as him is Mohsin the Ignorer. “Mate, did you fill out my footy-tipping sheet?” he asks when he sits down. Mohsin ignores him and Tom wants to spit chips. When Mohsin the Ignorer finally looks at him, Tom can’t hold back. “What’s your fucking pr...