All finished! 10 books (well 3 in this series and 7 in the tomorrow series)Kinda sad now, I really did love this series, all the adventures and 'close calls'. John did an amazing job and a great finish I got to end and was amazed of how fast I sped through it! Had me hooked. Spoiler- I knew it! I...
I loved this one! Thank you to my friend Beejay for lending me this fantastic book. I have not read Shakespeare's version but feel I might have the confidence to do so now that I have an understanding of the story. What a man Mr M is, this book is a quick read, I didn't want to put it down - t...
I have this little aversion to buying more than one book in a series at a time. What if I end up with, for example, books two, three and four, but I don’t like one of them? Chances are I’ll dislike the next one just as much. Well, I bought books three and four in the Tomorrow series shortly after...
This review contains unavoidable spoilers for the first and second books in The Tomorrow Series but minimal spoilers on A Killing Frost so read at your discretion. Ready? Okay!It’s easy to think that there is no way Ellie and Co. can top the demolition of a bridge and the destruction of an entir...
Our poor heroes aren’t so plucky and full of bravado anymore, not since Corrie was shot in the back and Kevin took her to the hospital. But the gang decide they can’t sit around forever: they need more supplies for living in Hell, and they want to see if Corrie’s OK, and they need to take some ac...
Like many, many others I was captivated by Suzanne Collins's THE HUNGER GAMES. It hooked me with its pulse pounding action, nightmarish vision of the future, and most of all its strong, capable female lead and wouldn't let me go. I finished it in one sitting. Unlike many others I was less impress...
I find it difficult to judge this book on its own. I just finished reading the tomorrow series for the third time and by now im so completely familiar with and committed to Ellie that i'd probably read a book about her taking a crap.I do think its not as well written as the first series.For examp...
Almost my favourite in the series...except that I didn't want it to end, so that put a damper on things. The characters' descent into senseless (and dangerously unplanned ) violence for the sake of it was depressing but believable.Here's my review of the series as a whole....When The Wire first ...
This is the one where they accidentally manage to blow up the airport. Yay! They are back to being the insanely destructive, brilliantly successful ruthless terrorists we know and love. And they're more psychologically messed up than ever. Marsden throws in a few wombat and platypus subplots a...
Normally I would put a summary here of the plot, but I'm going to skip that for this book, because as far as I could tell, it had no plot. You may ask, then, what exactly he did in 127 pages. Most of it was vignettes of various children from previous times, with perhaps 10% of the book following ...
I haven’t picked up any John Marsden books since I finished reading the ‘Tomorrow’ series. I was aware he had written other YA books but had just not got around to them. I needed a book with ‘winter’ in the title for a reading challenge and this book fitted the criteria perfectly. The bonus was...
Our teen heroes are forced to evacuate Stratton with a bunch of feral orphan children when the soldiers get too close. Upon returning to Hell, the children decide to abandon the teens, who now feel responsible for them. After being rescued, they then celebrate Christmas.The plot doesn’t sound tha...
Checkers is a young adult fiction novel about a girl who I am assuming to be around 15/16 years old. There is a lot of mystery about her because she doesn't say where she is or even who she is outright - everything is described very subtly and you come to realise that she's in some sort of mental...
I liked this book more than I expected to. John Marsden was my favourite author until I was about 15, so I've read a lot of his books - just not many of his ones with male protagonists. It took me a while to adjust to Erle's style of narration, but once I did I found it intriguing and I grew quit...
I was so excited to discover the existence of this book after reading So Much To Tell You. I was pretty blown away by that one, so I was thrilled to know there was a companion novel which, according to Wikipedia, would fill in the gaps and detail the aftermath of the first book. Told from Lisa’s ...
Dear John Marsden,I already knew you were the almighty king of Aussie YA after reading the Tomorrow series, but now I'm going to throw in a crown, a sceptre and a huge, lavish coronation ceremony to make it all official.Love,Me.As much as I love the premise and the characters and the voice of the...