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Review – Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

March 26, 2011 by Tahlia Newland

Title: Lost Voices Author: Sarah Porter Publisher: Harcourt Books Pub Date: 07/04/2011 Lost Voices is an enjoyable, interesting and unusual book. Essentially, it is about moral dilemmas and power plays in a group of teenage girls who are mermaids. The concept of abused girls turning into mermaids at their most horrific moment makes a fascinating basis for the story. The blurb Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of her grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in—all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives. Luce is thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: the mermaids feel an uncontrollable desire to drown seafarers, using their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, YA fantasy Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy novels, Fantasy novels review blogs, Lost Voices, Sarah Porter

Review – The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

March 18, 2011 by Tahlia Newland

Title: The Goddess Test SubTitle: Book I in The Goddess Test series Author: Aimée Carter Publisher: Harlequin TEEN Pub Date: 04/26/2011 I loved this book. As well as being a great story with endearing characters, its themes of death, justice, responsibility for others and the process of releasing a loved one made it moving and thought provoking.  The blurb EVERY GIRL who has taken the test has DIED. Now it's KATE'S TURN. It’s always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate’s going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won’t live past the fall. Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he’ll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests. Kate is sure he’s crazy—until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 5 stars, Reviews, YA fantasy Tagged With: Aimee Carter, Book Review, Fantasy novels, Fantasy novels review blogs, The Goddess Test

Review of Phantom Universe by Laura Kreitzer

January 5, 2011 by Tahlia Newland

Phantom Universe by Laura Kreitzer is different, richly written and thoroughly engaging. Two things stand out for me, the endearing character of Summer and how fully we experience the world from her perspective. The novel, written in the present tense, has a unique voice, a powerful sense of immediacy, and lusciously heartwarming moments in a cold world.   Kidnapped at four years old, Summer is enslaved and so abused that she doesn’t speak. Unknown to her, she is some kind of experiment gone wrong and the secret society responsible is searching for her with the intention of terminating her. When they come onto the ship on which she had spent most of her life, she manages to escape and finds herself 200 years in the future. The story from there is one of her reorientation into a world where despite hardships, friendship and love blossoms. Throughout the book we see Summer struggle with the mere idea of speaking, and her challenge in the end is whether or not she can overcome the fear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 5 stars, Post Apocolyptic, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy novels review blogs, Laura Kreitzer, Phantom Universe

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The High Priestess: Persephone’s Return is the third book in Val Tobin’s Tales from the Unmasqued World Series, and in it she deepens and expands the stories from the previous two book. The book has two central story arcs based around characters we’ve met before. One arc follows Kelsey (a human) who is with Josh […]

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