Just Arrived: "Sacrifice" by Joanna Orwin—Plus Reading for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards

On December 1, here,  I was shaking my head over the Nebula Awards nomination process for 2012 already being open—but I'm expecting the Sir Julius Vogel Awards to be open again very soon as well. The dates haven't been posted yet, but the nomination period last year was 1 January to 31 March—and I'd like to make some nominations if I can, so I'm starting to get together some NZ authored fiction to read over the next few months.

So I'm really pleased that Joanna Orwin's Sacrifice (a YA book...