Simon A
I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett
Reviewed on September 22, 2010
As someone who started reading Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books when I was maybe 10 or 11 years old, as a logical progression from Douglas Adams, I confess I have always found the distinction between his ‘normal’ and young adult books slightly hard to understand. The ‘normal’ books contain no sex, no swearing and only cartoon [...]
Blood Ninja, by Nick Lake
Reviewed on April 7, 2010
Ninjas. Vampires. Put them together and what have you got? Pure fantasy gold, it would appear. For many people, the combination of these two tropes, even without the ongoing Stephanie Meyer-induced vampire-mania, would be enough to get them to buy Blood Ninja, whatever the reviews say, but there’s an added bonus: this is really a [...]
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
Reviewed on November 27, 2008
Terry Pratchett’s latest novel contains such a rich and compelling mixture of themes and ideas that it puts many other authors to shame – and it’s all the more impressive that he is willing to explore these in a book that is marketed as being for young adults. Indeed, it’s Pratchett’s young adult work that [...]
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Reviewed on July 10, 2008
I finished The Book Thief a few weeks ago, and since then I have been gathering my thoughts to write this review: after all, it’s not often you read a book narrated by Death (though unlike Terry Pratchett’s version, he doesn’t TALK IN BLOCK CAPITALS), set in Nazi Germany, about a family who risk their [...]
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