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This is another book that really resonates with me. The post-apocalyptic world is an interesting physical setting; the need to hide extraordinary talents is an emotionally interesting setting. Other books in this series are also fascinating, but are getting a bit too long and involved. I wish they were all as compact as this one.
I read this book when I was in High School and found it again recently. I re-read it because I was after a quick and easy read and want to go on and read the rest of the books in the series.
This book is a post-apocalyptic tale where an oppressive council seeks to control the population and people with special abilities are labeled misfits. Elspeth is the child of seditioners and a secret misfit who has resigned herself to the idea that she will one day be caught. What she doesn't realise is how ...more
This book is a post-apocalyptic tale where an oppressive council seeks to control the population and people with special abilities are labeled misfits. Elspeth is the child of seditioners and a secret misfit who has resigned herself to the idea that she will one day be caught. What she doesn't realise is how ...more
Isobelle Carmody is a prominent Australian Young Adult author and I really do have no idea why I never picked up any of her books sooner. Carmody began to work on Obernewtyn when she was only fourteen and it was first published in 1987. It is not exactly long or heavy reading at 245 pages but the following books appear to get progressively longer.
The book begins with a brief history of how things came to be, telling us that there was the Great White followed by the formation of the Council and t ...more
The book begins with a brief history of how things came to be, telling us that there was the Great White followed by the formation of the Council and t ...more
Apr 08, 2012
Zoë
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Jacinta Hoare
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Jul 24, 2017
Rachel (The Rest Is Still Unwritten)
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