View the original review, the guest post with Karen Healey, and the free downloadable bookmarks for When We Wake on my blog:This is truly an awesome novel. To all you Beatles fans out there, get ready for this book. Even if you're not a fan of them, there is something to love about When We Wake. If ...
When We Wake is an entertaining novel, a great read, that explores humanity in an honest, chilling manner. There is a lot to like, especially the characters and the terrifying future that seems all too plausible, but I had a few issues with the world building.Tegan’s plight in waking up in a century...
Five or so years ago, I used to write. I'd vaguely planned something involving cryonics one hundred years into future Melbourne (named Batmania in honour of the city's heritage). So cryonics has been an interest that has unfortunately barely shown up in the fiction I've read, so I was desperate to r...
Well written, engaging, and readable, but the ideas are nothing new and it's a bit preachy (and I'm in all of her particular choirs).It is VERY nice to have so many QUILTBAG, POC, and Muslim characters without it being a big deal, and a protagonist who is religious without it being a religious book....
If you don't live in a very small, part of the world that - on the whole - consumes mass culture rather than produces it, you have no idea the pleasure of simply reading a book that speaks with your own accent. That uses local words for local things. That knows what it's like getting out of bed ever...
Enjoyed this heaps. If you're going to make a NZ girl sporty, make her a rugby player. I liked Kiri a lot as a protagonist and I didn't work out the truth - the second mystery, or third, I suppose - until she did and it was a bit of a gut punch to me too.
It's a bit like the author looked at everything she disliked in fantasty/horror and wrote against it, successfully. This is a creepy book with great characters and good pacing. Looking forward to her next book, due out this year.
Well, this might as well have been written for me. Boarding school, Maori mythology, evil fairies and a production of a Midsummer Night's Dream. I enjoyed every bit of it, including the uncommon heroine.
2.5 starsI really appreciated how different it was, being set in New Zealand, using the Maori mythology, etc.It made for a very interesting read that maintained my interest, but sadly I did not really connect with any of the characters. They were real enough, I just did not know them. They were not ...
I loved so very many things about this book, including the Maori mythology and the asexual character, neither of which I've seen in YA or fantasy before. I'm particularly taken with the idea that our personal mythologies can shape our perception of the world quite literally. I also loved the ending,...
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