January 29, 2015
by The Opal Octopus
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I was a little lukewarm on the first Blackcoat Rebellion book, which I thought was solid if a little formulaic. This book kept me a bit more glued to the pages, which was promising. Kitty Doe, still Masked as VII … Continue reading
August 1, 2014
by The Opal Octopus
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There was a great setup for this book, hitting all my buttons: plague novel, set in Australia, young adult. Lena is a girl locked in an outback property with her Mum and two pet dingoes, and kept in by fear … Continue reading
July 11, 2014
by The Opal Octopus
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Drowned is set in a surreal postapocalyptic world, in the end days before the floods completely cover the planet. At first I thought this was a fantasy book – and it’s categorised as Fantasy on Goodreads – but slowly I … Continue reading
June 28, 2014
by The Opal Octopus
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Virgin Jackson is a ranger at one of the few wild places left in Australia’s conurbation – Birrimun Park, a tourist-drawing Western-themed desert national park. And Virgin’s having a bad week. She finds an impossible corpse in her park, she … Continue reading
May 22, 2014
by The Opal Octopus
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Some Fine Day is a nearish-future cli-fi YA dystopian thriller from debut novelist Kat Ross. Jansin Nordqvist, the military-trained daughter of a general and a bioscientist, is about to graduate. Her parents decide to take her on a brief holiday … Continue reading