Obernewtyn
The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book OneFor Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people...
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The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book OneFor Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people like Elspeth-mysteriously born with powerful mental abilities-are feared by the Council and hunted down like animals...to be destroyed.Her only hope for survival to is keep her power hidden. But is secrecy enough against the terrible power of the Council?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312869588 (0312869584)
Publish date: September 4th 1999
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Science Fiction,
Young Adult Fantasy,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: The Obernewtyn Chronicles (#1)
There was the time before, there was technology and now there's very little, in fact it's in the hands of some of the fanatical religious Council. There are people who are misfits in this world, people with psionic talents are punished and often killed. She is brought to Obernewtyn, where some ev...
I read this book a long time ago when an old friend of mine gave it to me and told me that it is good. She also told me that she had won it in a competition and she was able to chose the prize that she had won so she selected this book because the author had the same name as her (though it was spelt...
I can see why this is popular, but I just can't get into it. It doesn't sit right with me at all.
This is a book that I was really looking forward to and it turned out to be a great disappointment. The premise has all the things I like-- a dystopian post-apocalyptic world where science and knowledge has crumbled and people struggle to cobble together an existence, humans discovering their newly-...
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