Cold Shoulder Road
by Joan Aiken
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Read in December, 2003
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Fans of Victorian Melodrama, Joan Aiken fans, Lemony Snicket Readers...
In this ninth entry in Aiken's Wolves Chronicles, and the second featuring Is Twite as a heroine, Is and her cousin Arun go in search of Arun's mother in Folkstone. Here they must contend with a band of ruthless smugglers known as The Merry Gentlemen, and a strange religious cult called the Silent Sect. Aiken delivers her usual assortment of odd characters and unexpected plot developments, including more unknown Twite relations, a long-lost royal treasure, and a frigate stuck at the top ...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in March, 2005
Sequel to Is Underground. In the previous book in the series, Is Twite travelled north to find her missing cousin, Arun. Now Arun has been found, and they are going back to his home town to reunite him with his mother. But when they get there, they discover that Aunt Ruth has disappeared. Arun's family was part of the Silent Sect, a strange group of true believers who believe that silence is holy and noise is sinful. But things have changed in the sect since Arun left -- there is a new, c...more
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Read in May, 2008
This was a very different read than I was expecting. I've read her short stories, but this was my first Aiken novel. It is a complex story dealing with smuggling between France and England and the children and others who are caught in the fear and danger created by greedy people.
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This was the first book in Wolves of Willoughby Chase sequence that I read; and the impression it left me still makes me shudder sometimes.
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"'One day,' she said to herself, 'men will learn to split the atom.'
'What's an atom?'
'It's the smallest grain of the basic stuff from which we are all made. As cakes are made from flour.' Ruth held up her slender, worn hand. Her fingers were transparent against the spring sunshine. 'Pull that grain apart, you release a torrent of energy. Like--like an egg hatching. Crash! Out comes and eagle! In the same way--I think--out of each person, each simple, plain person, can come such power that, if properly used, it could shoot an arrow to the sun. Or sow a thousand oak trees and make them grow overnight to the height of a tower. All you need is to harness that force.'"
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