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Adventure on the high sea! (Seafire review)

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Parker, N. (2018) Seafire. New York, NY: Penguin Random House LLC On the Bullet Seas, the only thing you can trust is your family.  For Captain Caledonia Styx, that refers to her crew, her sisters.  She had another family once, but that was taken away by Aric Athair bullets.  Her family was murdered, her ship burned, and she was left for dead.  She didn't die though.  Instead she grew stronger, rebuilt her ship, and raised an all girl crew to sail it. Now her new family is being threatened, but this time she's going to give it right back. I absolutely loved this book!  I laughed, I cried, I got angry, I felt tense, and I lusted for adventure.  This book took me for a ride that I'm not ready to get off from.  I can tell you I'll be checking out the sequel, Steeltide, as soon as I can.  The characters are engaging and the setting is so interesting.  It' s sort of a post apocalyptic world, in which those errors of the previous civiliza...

so Noisy. (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

Ness, P.(2008) The Knife of Never Letting Go . Cambridge, Ma: Candlewick Press Spoilers ahead. Todd is almost a man. He will be in about a month.   In Prentisstown, when you turn 13 you are officially considered a man.   That and his dog that won’t stop talking is what he’s thinking about while he’s out in the swamp looking for apples.   In the new world everything talks, and everyone has Noise.   The Noise is people’s thoughts put out for everyone else to hear.   It’s just how it is.   It can get pretty deafening in town.   Todd is also the last boy in town.   There are no other children and no women either, just 100+ men.    So it’s pretty startling when he comes across a pocket of silence.   When he approaches, whatever it is runs off. Todd’s thinking it must be a Spackle, one of the world’s indigenous people.   As he heads home, he tries to keep it out of his Noise.   Several men keep looking at him weird...