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Review :: DRY :: Neal & Jarrod Shusterman
The drought – or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it – has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t take long showers, don’t panic. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbours and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return, she and her younger brother must team up with an unlikely group in search of water. Each of them will need to make impossible choices to survive. Ok, confession time – Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman has…
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Q&A :: A.J. Betts :: Rogue
Something a little bit special here today – I have the pleasure of participating in the Rogue blog tour (thanks to #macmillanaus and #AusYABloggers). I absolutely adored this book – as I did the first book in the series (see my review of that one here) – and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview auther A.J. Betts for my stop on the tour! I’ll be back later in the week with a review, but for now please read on below to see our Q&A! 1) Do you remember when the idea for the HIVE duology first came to you and what inspired you to write it? I…
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Review :: Vox :: Christina Dalcher
I feel like the last little while has been fantastic for stories that examine societies’ controlling of women and their bodies – the success of The Handmaid’s Tale tv adaptation, as well as book like The Power and Red Clocks. Christina Dalcher’s Vox. is the latest release to take on this topic, and just might be my favourite! From the Harlequin website: Silence can be deafening.Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you’re a woman.Almost…
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Review :: Pandora Jones: Admission :: Barry Jonsberg
I was lucky enough in December to win a couple of book giveaways on social media, including one from Allen & Unwin for this dystopian #loveozYA novel – Pandora Jones: Admission. Now, I hadn’t heard of this book before I won it in the giveaway, but when it arrived it sounded so good I started reading right away. And I was hooked right from the prologue. It’s set in the near future (I think) and has kind of a creepy, chilling Stephen King vibe at the start, when a plague pandemic has swept the globe, wiping out most of humanity. Our protagonist, Pandora Jones, wakes up in some kind of infirmary in…
