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This is at least my fourth time through this book and my third review of it. I've loved the story of Tam Lin (from an old Scottish ballad) since I was a little girl. I read it (with the "salacious" bits removed) in a book of fairy tales. At the time, all I knew what that the girl saved the boy, and ...
Blay Raytee lives in a government work-camp in the year 2368. Humanity struggles to heal after the technocaust left the world in ruins. The government maintains its control by instilling fear in the people – the fear of technology. Those few that aren’t afraid, eventually become part of the resis...
I have a bit of a stand-off-ish relationship with Janet McNaughton. On the one hand, I usually enjoy reading her books- and on the other, I think I discovered them about two years too late. So I ALMOST buy into the story, but not quite.I fully admit that this is one of my weirder failings. I can wat...
I'm going to put my jugemental hat on now and do some reviewing. I found this story really hard to get into, simply because of the author's voice. Small words and simple descriptions just don't do it for me, sorry. I actually assumed at first that the story was MG, (though later plot points (romance...
A few centuries in the future, what's left of the population in eastern Canada is mostly civilized, but factions are warring over acceptance of technology. The story is actually a coming of age for a lost girl who has the opportunity to leave a work camp and become embroiled in a hopeful future and...
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