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The City's Son: The Skyscraper Throne: Book One - Community Reviews back

by Tom Pollock
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Nina @ Death Books and Tea
Nina @ Death Books and Tea rated it 13 years ago
Review: There’s more to London than you’ve ever know.live people in statues. Trains with minds of their own. Electric dancers. And an evil god in the skyscrapers. Beth, after one last act of betrayal, has been thrown out of her school and her home. After unexpectedcly coming across a pair of fighti...
kathymartin9237
kathymartin9237 rated it 13 years ago
In this young adult urban fantasy, war is coming to London. The destructive Reach is killing the city and his opponent the Lady of the Streets is missing. Only her son, sixteen-year-old Filius Viae is left to recruit her supporters and defeat Reach. But he is young, and frightened, and not a general...
Sandra
Sandra rated it 13 years ago
Giveaway ends Aug15th 2012
Stacey O'Neale
Stacey O'Neale rated it 13 years ago
This review was completed by Tim Kershaw, staff reviewer with the Fantasy Book Addict.Firstly, I’d like to do a little backpedaling. To the people who have only given this book a 1 Star or a ‘Didn’t Finish’ because it was either “too difficult” or “there was too much going on” – you are morons and I...
Andrea K Höst
Andrea K Höst rated it 13 years ago
Beth and Pen are the closest of friends. Beth is an artist and Pen a poet and together they cope with school and family issues, but they have a particular problem at the moment with a teacher who is repeatedly bullying Pen. Beth supports her friend through this as best she can, and indulges in a t...
Nocturnal Book Reviews
Nocturnal Book Reviews rated it 13 years ago
4.5/5 Egalley thanks to Flux BooksIt looks like I'm really rooting for British YA authors these days, doesn't it?Tom Pollock has a sick and brilliant mind. The City's Son is an overpowering, overwhelming cascade of strong emotions and harsh images, urban jungle and beauty in completely unexpected se...
Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May rated it 13 years ago
Hello, you beautiful thing! :lovingly strokes book:
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