OUR COVER BOOK Blood Alchemy by Benjamin J Myers is reviewed on page 14 by Laura Duncan from St Augustine’s High and Lachlan Glen from Drummond Community High E IS U S U S 50 E S I EU S SI 50 TEEN TITLES Inside PAST TIMES Past Times 2 Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 Just for Laughs 19 Focus on Family 21 Fact-Packed 21 Teen Issues 24 Thrillers & Chillers 27 Author Factfile 34 Readers Write 36 Thank You 39 FEATURES A G TAYLOR THE BIG TEEN TITLES INTERVIEW with 6 WorldShaker rolls into town with Richard Harland 18 Why Wasted is Nicola Morgan’s favourite book 23 William Nicholson – from big screen to teen fiction 28 Teen Titles aims to promote reading and literacy in a fun way that appeals to all young people. Teen Titles is committed to improving reading within Edinburgh and beyond. Welcome to Teen Titles 50, our first issue of 2011. Inside, A G Taylor tells us why he loves writing about superheroes. Also in Teen Titles 50, find out what shakes Richard Harland’s world, the story behind Nicola Morgan’s Wasted, and what the audience thought when William Nicholson came to talk about Rich and Mad. We hope you enjoy it! Cleo Jones Manager Information and Learning Resources Darroch Centre 7 Gillespie Street Edinburgh EH3 9NH The Fool’s Girl Cover: Reproduced from Blood Alchemy by Benjamin J Myers by permission of Orion Children’s Books. Illustration by Chris King. Celia Rees Bloomsbury £10.99 ISBN 9780747597322 Based on Twelfth Night, this is the story of Feste and Violetta, who have travelled to England to track down relics stolen from their homeland of Illyria. The foreign names and places made this book really confusing for me. I found them off-putting and it was hard to make sense of the story. CARRIS MATTHEWS St Thomas of Aquin’s High 2 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE REVIEWS Bone by Bone by Bone Tony Johnston Frances Lincoln £6.99 ISBN 9781845071745 In 1940s Tennessee, the most important thing in David’s life is his friendship with Malcolm, but David’s father has banned him from seeing Malcolm and has even threatened to kill Malcolm, all because he is black. Will David’s father carry out his threat, when Malcolm tries to hide from the Klan in David’s house? I thought this book looked interesting – it has a really dramatic start. I was surprised that the book is set in the 1940s as I didn’t think people were so racist as recently as that. I felt David’s father was a bad man for thinking the way he did and that David was really brave for keeping the friendship with Malcolm. I found some of the words in this book difficult and although it started really well I lost interest by half-way through. This is not normally a book I would read: it’s too historical and factual. If you like this sort of thing, this might be the book for you, it’s really believable and you what they were going through. It was quite a ‘quite scary’ feel that these are real things that happened. hard book to get into and although the storyline RACHEL CARPENTER was quite interesting I found it a difficult read. I Forrester High would recommend it to an older reader. KERI BAIRD I enjoyed the excitement of Bone by Bone by The Poisoned House Castlebrae Community High Bone: it always kept me on the edge of the chair! I like the characters Malcolm and David, Michael Ford Saving Rafael explores the struggle of growing as they were realistic and interesting. I would Bloomsbury £6.99 ISBN 9781408804506 up with poignant clarity, and this coming-of-age recommend this book to people who enjoy novel remains with you long after you turn the Abi, a servant girl working at Greave Hall reading about current affairs and issues such as last page. I enjoyed reading this book a lot. stately home, becomes convinced that racism and prejudice, and like adventure stories. ELEANOR HARRIS her mother’s death was murder. This is an The best part of the novel was when the main Davison CE High School, West Sussex atmospheric, suspense-filled ghost story, set character, David was sticking up for his best in Victorian London. friend Malcolm and he wouldn’t back down. Black Death MHAIRI ROBERTSON I really liked this, although it’s not the type of Forrester High book I usually read – and I read a lot! It had a Series: FYI – Fiction With Stacks of Facts good twist in the family relationships and an Martyn Beardsley element of horror too. It was quite ‘dark’ in the Barrington Stoke £5.99 ISBN 9781842997659 sense of Abi being poor and people treating her cruelly. The characters were interesting and Will is a merchant sailor living in 1348 – the very strong, especially Samuel and Mrs Cotton. time of the bubonic plague. When he comes I found it quite scary as a ghost story and really home from a voyage, Will is blamed for enjoyed the mystery of it all. bringing the Black Death to his village. Can CATRIONA ROBERTSON REILLY Will and his family escape from the angry St Thomas of Aquin’s villagers and from death itself? This was a quick easy read, but for a short book Saving Rafael there was a lot in it. The story part kept you wanting to read more Leslie Wilson and the book was full Andersen Press £6.99 ISBN 9781842709184 of historical facts and I learned loads from it. In Nazi-ruled Berlin, 15-year-old Jenny and I really enjoyed it, and her family suffer hunger and poverty. Jenny’s would recommend love for Raf is the only gleam of light in the it for anyone who horror of her life, but Raf is a Jew and it is wants to learn about against the law to love him. Can their love history easily. survive? LAURA FORD I didn’t find this book very exciting although I Castlebrae did sympathise with the characters because of Community High 3 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE REVIEWS The I just couldn’t get into it – it might be a good read but not for me. Alchemist STEPHANIE GRAHAM Wester Hailes Education Centre in the This book is a translation from French and that might be the reason that the language seems Shadows quite complex. The historical setting is intriguing but not well known. The storyline is a little hard Pierre Pevel to follow and the plot was too slow and didn’t Orion £12.99 ISBN grab me. There is not enough action and it is too 9780575084407 slow a start. In 1633 France, BRAD YOUNG Italian spy La Donna Wester Hailes Education Centre is wanted for her crimes. When she Between Shades of finds out about a plot to overthrow Gray the French throne, she offers to tell Ruta Sepetys Cardinal Richelieu, Penguin £6.99 ISBN 9780141335889 the most powerful man in France, in Lina, her mother and brother are taken from exchange for his their home by Soviet guards, shoved into a protection. The cattle car and deported to a Siberian work plot is a deadly camp. Lina hangs on to the hope that one day one involving a she will again see her first love and her father, dangerous alchemist, who is in prison and has been sentenced to magic and dragons. death. I started reading this I found this book almost unbearably moving. book but I found the Based on a true story, it captured the horror plot was too fast and of what life was like in 1940s Russia for many new characters were people. While at one level tragic, Between Shades being added all the of Gray at another level does end on a note of time – every other tender hope. This amazing book will stick in my page! The setting memory for a long time! ‘an epic storyline’ was Paris 1633 but RUTH CAMPBELL that didn’t put me Trinity Academy off as I like historical/ fantastical settings. ‘unbearably moving’ The Thief-taker’s Apprentice Stephen Deas Orion £9.99 ISBN 97805750944475 Berren, a young thief, is caught by Sy, the thief- taker, trying to steal his purse. He can’t believe his luck when Sy offers to take him on as his apprentice rather than condemning him to a life in the slave mines. Sy has, however, both secrets and many enemies. Has Berren jumped out of one bad situation and into a far worse one? The Thief-taker’s Apprentice, in my opinion, is one of the best books I have ever read. It lures the reader in with an epic storyline. I would advise anyone to read it, especially teenage boys looking for adventure stories. The underlying theme of the book is changing personalities. In the book, the main protagonist changes because of circumstances which ultimately affect the final outcome of the story. FILIP BRZESZCZYNSKI Balerno Community High 4 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE REVIEWS Fight for Freedom Series: Gladiator Simon Scarrow Puffin £12.99 ISBN 9780141333632 In ancient Rome, SCI-FI & FANTASY Marcus’ life is changed forever when he is forced to be a slave and a gladiator, fighting and surviving for the public’s entertainment. It is far from being an easy life: training is brutal, and so are the slave owners. Probably since I am a girl I did not really enjoy this book. I found it dull and tricky to understand, not a relaxing read and Savannah Grey I didn’t manage to finish it. This probably Cliff McNish would be a good book Orion £8.99 ISBN 9781842551127 for boys a bit older Savannah is 15 and than I am, but it just unsettled. She has was not for me. a new boyfriend, JO STAPLETON Reece, her body is Boroughmuir High growing, and she is aware of strange ‘dark and thrilling’ ‘presences’ around her. Gradually she is introduced to Horror, Nyktomorph and The Double Life of Ocrassa, monsters intent on corrupting Cora Parry nature and in using her to do so. Angela McAllister I found this book quite hard to get in to. The Orion £8.99 ISBN 9781842556030 first few chapters were good, but after that I Cora was rescued from the workhouse by struggled to want to read it. I thought it was Elliot, but, when he and his wife die, she very atmospheric, and I was intrigued to know is sent back to where she came from. She what would happen to Savannah, and curious begins a double life in which her alter ego, about the monsters, but it was a bit predictable. Carrie, becomes more and more reckless. It had an interesting cover, a good plot and Where does Cora end and Carrie begin, and characters, but it didn’t grab me enough to can Cora survive on her own? finish it. ORLA MCCORRY This book is very creative and original. It was St Thomas of Aquin’s High incredibly gripping; I found it hard to put down from the very first page. This book is great This book was OK, but a bit confusing too, for anyone who is looking for a mysterious, because you thought Savannah was going mad Victorian Age historical fantasy. The Double Life and didn’t really know what was wrong with her. of Cora Parry is a dark and thrilling read, great for You had to read quite far into it before it made young teenagers. I give it thumbs up! any sense. I thought the cover was good! LILY RAPER LUCY ALLAN Firrhill High St Thomas of Aquin’s High 5 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE THE BIG TEEN TITLES INTERVIEW A The idea for the story came from my first experiences of the outback when I arrived in Australia. The emptiness and the sheer size of the country was an inspiration for Meteorite Strike. I thought it was the perfect place to set this kind of survival thriller, because, in the outback, rescue can be hundreds of kilometres away. Q There are a lot of superhero films around at the moment. Which one is your favourite, and which superhero character would you most like to be from any other book/film? A My favourites are the new Batman films, particularly The Dark Knight. I think they’re really well written and have a fantastic modern style that brings the characters to life like never before. Batman has always been my favourite superhero, so I’d have to be him – if only because I’d love to drive the tank-like batmobile from the new movies! Q Without giving too much away, where on earth did you get the idea for the scary water tank scene? A I honestly can’t remember! Lots of ideas come into your head when you’re writing a book – and lots get thrown away because they just don’t work. The water tank is there because the bad guys have to show they’re serious about killing Sarah, but beyond that I can’t recall the inspiration. People who’ve read the book seem to like that scene, so I’m glad I had the idea – wherever it came A G Taylor: ‘There’s from … Q How many books are you going to write about Sarah, Robert and the rest of them? A I’ve just finished the third book, Enemy Always Another Invasion, which comes out in June and is the final part of this trilogy. After that, who knows? The good thing about writing superhero stories is that there’s always Villain Around the another villain around the corner … Q The last battle scene in the book is brilliant and would make a fabulous scene in a film! Were you thinking about it as a film as you wrote it? Corner’ A I watch lots of films, so I always imagine scenes playing out like a film in my head as I write. This is particularly important for action scenes where a lot is happening The Meteorite Strike author was Q We loved how at the start of the book Daniel at once. After I’ve visualized it, it’s just a interviewed by Hannah Brownsell, was a bit of a shifty, shady character. How did matter of getting it down on paper (which is you get everyone to love him by the end? sometimes not that easy!). Cameron Maceira, Hannah Scott, A Daniel starts off just looking out for himself Q If it were ever to be made into a film, who Kathryn Russell, Katie Thomson and is a bit of a criminal, although he’s trying would play Daniel? (We think it should be to do the right thing by his kids. He goes Daniel Craig!) and Niamh White from Holy Rood through a lot to protect Sarah and Robert A I think Daniel Craig is great too (Casino High, Edinburgh. when other people might have given up, Royale is one of my favourite Bond films), so and I think that’s the key to his character. I’m not going to argue with that idea! He’d Q If you could have a superpower from the Although he’s done some bad things, he’s be good for the role because the character book, what would it be and why? a good guy at heart – even if he doesn’t Daniel has plenty of heroic scenes, but he’s A Sarah’s ability to control people’s minds realize it at the beginning! also a bit of a rogue. would be a cool power to have, although Q Did the outback inspire you to think of Q What first gave you the idea for teenagers it would be tempting to abuse it! It would the plane crash, or did you write the story with abnormal powers? certainly make getting out of doing the and then think it would be best set in the A Originally the story was going to be about washing up easier. outback? the plane crash and Sarah and Robert trying 6 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE to survive in the desert. However, once I Meteorite Strike have personalities and faults. I think that you got halfway through writing the first draft I don’t have to be a huge fan of sci-fi to enjoy this realised that I needed to make things a bit Series: Superhumans book cos it’s not all aliens and technology. I loved more exciting, and that’s when the idea of A G Taylor the idea of HIDRA; it was really creative. giving them superpowers arose. After that, Usborne £5.99 ISBN 9781409508571 HANNAH SCOTT the rest of the story fell into place. Holy Rood High Sarah and Robert have just lost their mother Q Do you find it easy to write? How long do and neither of them is too impressed with This book was exciting, fun and adventurous. If you have to spend each day writing? their ‘accidental’ Dad, not seen by either of I could have any power in the book I would be A I find it easy to write some days – and others them for years. Then they fall victim to the invisible or telekinetic cos breaking steel would it’s a bit more difficult. Sometimes you just Fall virus, and, as they become immune to its be great for when my mother grounds me! Can’t feel a bit more inspired, but it’s important to legacy and develop strange, new superpowers, wait to read the next one! write something every day, I think. I aim for they realise just how important he is to them. KATIE THOMSON a minimum of 1000 words, although when Holy Rood High I’m ‘in the zone’ I can write a lot more. If you I thought that this was a very exciting and want to be a writer, it’s important not to give engaging book to read. I thoroughly enjoyed up on the difficult days. how the book started Alien Storm Q What is the best thing about being a writer? because you found A The best thing is seeing a story you’ve out a lot about the Series: Superhumans worked on for months (or years) become a main characters, but A G Taylor book that you can give to someone else to it was done in a way Usborne £5.99 ISBN 9781409520184 read. I’ll never forget the day I got the first that wasn’t boring Following on from Meteorite Strike, our six new copies of Meteorite Strike through the post. It because you met them superheroes are now in hiding from HIDRA was an amazing experience. just before a plane and hoping to escape detection in a run-down Q And what is the worst? crash. It’s not exactly housing estate in Melbourne. When an alien A You have to put a lot of time and effort into how you’d expect a storm of meteorites threatens to destroy the writing a book, and sometimes it’s easy to superhero book to be planet, a new friend appears to be their saviour, doubt yourself or what you’re writing. At because these heroes but is this new friend all he appears to be? those times you have to stubbornly believe in your story and plough on regardless! This book is a ‘Never give up’ is a good motto for writers, I brilliantly stunning sci- think. fi from beginning to Q Did you always know you were going to end. It boasts brilliant write some day? And if you couldn’t be a characters, amazing writer, what would you be? plots with plenty A If you’d asked me what I wanted to be when of plot twists and I was six years old, I would have said that I exceptional settings, wanted to be a writer. It has always been my along with a fantastic ambition. If I wasn’t a writer I’d want to work cliff-hanger that in anything that involved telling stories, such leaves it well open for as filmmaking – even if it was just fetching a sequel! It shows a coffee for the director! (If Christopher Nolan return of all the (living) is listening, I hereby offer to fetch coffee for major characters from him on the next Batman movie.) the first book and it Thanks for the interview and keep up the thrills from page one. great work with Teen Titles! A definite must-read! JOSH BLYTH Holy Rood High Alien Storm is a great book. It’s packed full of deception, betrayal and mystery. This is a highly recommended must- read. The characters are very cleverly written. They’re together but they also conflict; the element of trust hasn’t settled amongst them yet. I think that other adventure/mystery readers would enjoy this. SEAN MURPHY Holy Rood High 7 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE REVIEWS ‘a cool idea’ Meanwhile ‘you find yourself and the ending. Although the ending does make Jason Shiga things clearer, it does leave the story open for swept along’ Amulet Books £9.99 ISBN 9780810984233 more to come. In conclusion, I believe Pittacus Lore has created an enthralling, well paced A boy buys an ice-cream and finds himself in and fascinating book. I would recommend it to the home of Professor K, an inventor of time- Susan’s bracelet with the crystal drop is fantasy and science fiction fans alike. travel and memory-transfer machines. This is stolen by the forces of evil. ANDREW SCOTT-GEORGE an interactive book, told through a network A mixture of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings, James Gillespie’s High of tubes, mazes and codes. this is a good fantasy that has all the elements This book was quite good – I liked the pictures! of a rainy day read. It’s a very fast-paced book, so The Moon of Gomrath You need to read it a few times to find the although you want to read to understand more, different endings and I found this a bit boring you find yourself swept along from one moment Alan Garner eventually; also, I thought there should have to another. HarperCollins £5.99 ISBN 9780007127870 been more endings for the vanilla option. It was SHANNAN LEKWATI a cool idea to have the different pathways to Portobello High In this sequel to The Weirdstone of follow the story and they were easy to use. The Brisingamen, Colin and Susan worry that storyline and characters were OK too. I Am Number Four MELISSA SCOTT St Thomas of Aquin’s High Pittacus Lore I didn’t like this book. Although it was a clever Penguin £12.99 idea, the story didn’t make sense a lot of the ISBN 9780718156473 time and it got repetitive and boring. It might be When the planet Lorien is overwhelmed by better for younger people. alien invaders, the Mogadorian, nine children RONAN RAFFERTY are sent to Earth to keep the culture of St Thomas of Aquin’s High Lorien alive. But the Mogadorian are hunting them, and now only six are left alive. Number The Weirdstone of Four is next. Will he be able to defeat the Mogadorian without any loss of life among Brisingamen (50th his friends? In I Am Number Four, love combines with an anniversary edition) action-packed story which will make you feel real empathy for the characters. One of the Alan Garner earlier scenes in the book made me feel very HarperCollins £5.99 ISBN 9780007355211 sorry for what one character is going through Colin and Susan are sent to stay on a farm by and how he is scared to death. I normally read Alderley Edge, and are fascinated by stories more realistic books, but for a fantasy/sci-fi book about the wizard and the knights who sleep this had very realistic elements, eg it was set in a in an underground cavern. Very soon the multitude of countries/states like California. The world of magic becomes real to them, when thing that stands out for me is the many deaths 8 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE REVIEWS they will never again see their wizard friend was that I hadn’t Cadellin. But little do they realise just how read the other books important they really are, and the role they in the series and are destined to play. wasn’t familiar with all the characters, but I found this book very confusing as there were otherwise I enjoyed it. too many characters to follow. Also the events CASSIE DUNCAN seemed to jump about and too many things were St Thomas of Aquin’s happening at once. I didn’t really understand the significance of Susan’s bracelet, though all the characters kept going on about how important it Out for was. Some of the language was very old-fashioned and difficult to understand. Overall I think this Blood book is an ok read, but confusing in parts. AUREA CROLLA Series: Drake Boroughmuir High Chronicles Alyxandra Harvey Bloomsbury £6.99 ISBN 9781408807064 This is the third book in the Drake Brothers series. This time the story is about Quinn Drake and Hunter Wild. Hunter is a vampire hunter and students at the school are becoming ill. While trying to solve the mystery and battle vampires, she meets up with Quinn. She has to make a decision whether to trust him or not. My dad had to forcibly remove this book developed in the story and the fact that you got from my hand, so I could have my tea. I loved it. two points of view whilst you were reading the It has bad vampires, good vampires and vampire book. Quinn is a total hero! slayers. I liked the way the main characters HOLLY KESTERTON Gracemount High Crystal Eighth Grade Bites Rebecca Lisle Andersen Press £5.99 ISBN 9781849390590 Series: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Questid and the rock people of Spindle Heather Brewer House help Crystal and her ‘mad’ Mum Penguin £6.99 ISBN 9780141334066 to escape the restrictions of life under Vladimir Tod is the new vampire sensation. surveillance. His parents have been killed under I thought this book was really good and easy mysterious circumstances, and he’s left to to read. Even though the girl was nothing like live with his mother’s best pal, who luckily me, I could understand how she felt and what enough has access to pints of blood. it was like to be spied on. I liked finding out I found this book a little confusing at first because about where she came from too. I think the story I didn’t really understand where the story was would have made more sense if I’d read the first coming from. It felt like the second book in a two books and I’m going to try them now! series rather than the first. Once I got more into it, SOPHIE LYNN the story felt like it was going really fast. The pace St Thomas of Aquin’s of the novel really suits the storyline. I would say I thought this book was really good and the that the vocabulary isn’t as sophisticated as it is in portal under the water, which leads to Crystal’s other vampire books, but that’s ok. home in the mountains, was pretty cool! It was KATHRYN RUSSELL a well worked-out mystery. My only problem Holy Rood High 9 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE REVIEWS Crescendo the very end. All girls want to have a dark and dangerously sexy Patch in their lives (well, I do!) Becca Fitzpatrick and without him this book wouldn’t have been Simon & Schuster £9.99 ISBN 9781847387196 half as good. Twilight move over! The angels are gonna wipe the floor with you! This sequel to Hush, Hush follows the KATIE THOMSON fortunes of Patch and Nora as their love is Holy Rood High threatened by far more than normal teenage pressures. Patch, as a fallen angel and now I would recommend this to a friend because it Nora’s Guardian Angel too, finds it almost is very interesting and thought provoking. I felt impossible to cope with Nora’s depth of sorry for Nora in this novel because her whole feeling for him. When bad boy Scott appears world falls apart and the only person she can on the scene, things become really tense. trust is her best friend Vee. This book is similar to Twilight but it has a very different plot and is I thought that this book was annoying because very dramatic! The ending of the book left me the two of them weren’t together for most of it wanting to know more. and he never explained why, and she was just KERRY HUNT too proud to do anything about it. I am not Forrester High desperate to get the third one because I am just fed up of them! What I liked about Crescendo was that you got NIKOLA KOSICKA to know the characters in a whole new way and Holy Rood High you got to learn more about them. There was a lot going on in the book and you could never get This was an amazing book and much better bored of it. It really kept you hooked from start than the first one. Nora and Patch were a lot to finish. It was a great second book and it never closer in this novel even though they were split disappointed me, I can’t wait for the next one! ‘I would have stayed up for a lot of the book. The end of the book ROBYN MCFARLAND was a fantastic cliff-hanger and I can’t wait to Forrester High up all night’ read the third, but it did really surprise me what happened. Becca Fitzpatrick is an incredible I really enjoyed Crescendo. I found the storyline author and I really want to read her other books. interesting and I was instantly hooked on this book that are devastating. All those people Someone who likes Twilight but has had enough the book. Even though the book has fantasy who liked Twilight but want something more vampire stuff will really enjoy this. elements, such as fallen angels and Nephilim, it realistic will love this. KATHRYN RUSSELL was very believable as the author did not make KATHRYN RUSSELL Holy Rood High the characters over the top. I really liked Nora as Holy Rood High I can easily relate to her; she’s a teenager looking I loved this book; Becca Fitzpatrick never fails to for some trouble. I think the ending was good This book was better than the other two impress! Crescendo kept me guessing right to as it ended on a cliff-hanger, which instantly because it has far more action in it and Astley left you wanting to read the next book. I would is hot. I liked how the author wrote about how ‘kept you hooked’ definitely read more books by this author as Zara really connects to Astley. My favourite her brilliant writing technique make the books character was Cassidy because she was so brave special and extremely enjoyable. and you wouldn’t really expect her to be an elf. EMMA FAWCETT Anyone who enjoyed the first two in the series Forrester High will love it! JOYLINE GWARUKA Holy Rood High Entice The third instalment of Carrie Jones’s Need series Series: Pixies is better than the other two by far. The storyline Carrie Jones is a lot easier than the first book and I really Bloomsbury £6.99 ISBN 9781408810446 enjoyed it. I cannot wait for the next book; the anticipation is killing me. These books are better The third tale in the saga of Pixies, than Twilight because they are slightly more Werewolves and the Fey, set in the freezing feasible and more realistic. The author does very cold state of Maine. Zara has lost Nick, her well in bringing through teenage emotions. boyfriend, to Valhalla in the land of the Norse KATHLEEN MCBRIERTY Gods, but she will not give up until she can Holy Rood High travel there herself and rescue him. This book was really good but was very The best book I’ve ever read! If I hadn’t had annoying and slow at the start. I was wondering school the next day, I would have stayed up all how long it was going to take Zara to do night reading it. It’s such a great read I’m finding anything ... and her boyfriend’s stuck in Valhalla! it difficult to put it into words, but awesome and Once the story finally got going, it was really mind-blowing come to mind. It’s one of those good and very descriptive. Looking forward to books that the story absolutely leaps off the the next one! page at you. I laughed at the funny bits and I JOHANNE THOMSON cried at the sad bits. There are certain parts of Holy Rood High 10 TEEN TITLES BOOK REVIEW MAGAZINE