Posted on November 11th, 2009 by !!Not so Evil Twin!!
These books are Awesome. They are fantasy, history and science fiction all in one!!
“A thrilling Celtic Fantasy that wreaks havoc with history.”
The story follows Australian-born Tory when her car breaks down outside a stone circle. Deciding on a whim to sleep inside the circle, Tory wakes fourteen hundred years before. Carrying items such as a CD player [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
This is the second in the Hunger Games trilogy and it is as great as the first! For those late to the scene, the Hunger Games are a set of colosseum-like challenges set in an arena for the benefit of wealthy spectators in the Capitol of this dystopian world. Katniss and Peeta, the heroes from [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, heavily influenced by Victorian England aesthetics and techologies. More on this can be read here. It is a fascinating set of worlds which share a common kind of look and feel. World Shaker is the most recent example of the genre I have read and is highly recommended.
This [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
This is not a happy tale. It is another tale of a dystopian future where kids are sacrificed in an arena-like battle to the death for the viewing pleasure of the citizens of the Capitol and the plebs back in the Districts. But it is more than this. It has a great female narrator, strong [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
It is the English Head of Department’s fault. The book, Gone, was sitting on her desk and I happened to ask her what she had thought of it. I knew another English teacher had raved about it so I was curious. The she told me that she was considering it for inclusion in the Year [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by !!Not so Evil Twin!!
Having read an excerpt including the prologue and part of the first chapter of ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’ in the back of ‘Beyond the Shadows’, third book in the ‘Night Angel Trilogy’, by Brent Weeks, I completely enjoyed it, and I did not hesitate to purchase this book. Although not a thick book, it delivered a sufficiently enthralling storyline. [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Mr Symonds
Billed as a dystopian science-fiction novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox takes a while to live up to this. Jenna is a 16-ish girl who wakes from a coma with many questions about exactly who she is and what has happened to her life. She seems to recognise her family but then wonders why [...]
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