Preloved
by:
Shirley Marr (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781742031903
Publish date: April 1st 2012
Publisher: Black Dog Books/Walker Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Paranormal,
Cultural,
Romance,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Australia,
Supernatural,
Ghosts,
Young Adult Paranormal
Sometimes it's really nice to be able to dive into a book that you can clasp your hand to your mouth about and go, "oh my god, I understand what you mean." Culture-wise, anyway. The Hokkien references made me go !!! as did a lot of the other stuff, really. ALSO LOGAN AND STACEY MADE ME THINK OF SOME...
You and Fury will be in my arms soon prettehs...soon. You've been warned.
First things first, I have to get some disclaimery stuff out of the way: I received a copy of Preloved from the author, because I won a competition to have a cameo in the book. BAM that's right I'm like totes famous. The reason I'm mentioning this is not to brag (much), but so that I won't be accuse...
See this review and more on The Moonlight Library!Preloved has one of the coolest concepts on the block (a ghost from the Eighties? It was only the so-daggy-it's-cool era), and add to that major bonus points for a YA heroine who's Chinese.However the startling brevity in which this tale was told lef...
I feel like people might burn me at the stake for doing this, but. Is this book I'm reading the same one that everyone four-starred??Maybe I set my standards too high. Maybe I was expecting Laini Taylor prose and so came out severely disappointed when met with a writing style that seemed(don't hit m...