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The Magicians Guild
Trudi Canavan
This book is the first book in The Black Magician trilogy which introduces us to a young girl called Sonea and her rascal of a friend Cery. Sonea is an orphan who lives with her aunty and uncle in a medieval era city, moving from place to place. Unfortunately once every year by decree of the king the magicians guild (an elitist group of people with the ability to do magic) use their magic to “purge” all the street urchins out into the slums. But for Sonea this purge will be different from all the purges before, this time she will rebel against the magicians with her friend Cery. Every year Cery has rebelled and every year everyone has been forced out into the slums by the magicians impenetrable magic barrier. In a shock twist that will change the guild forever, Sonea manages to pierce the barrier and concuss a magician. But only a fellow MAGICIAN can pierce a magical barrier!
Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi
I picked up Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi at last year’s Peruse 100 prize giving and I am immensely glad I did. Ship Breaker is set in a dystopian future where our current reckless abuse of the environment has finely taken its toll. The seas have risen and wiped out entire cites and the occasional country and massively destructive storms now roam all over America’s Gulf Coast region where thousands live in shanty towns just trying to eke out a living dismantling grounded oil tankers.
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
It has now become a habit of mine that as soon as I start to read a book, I also start to mentally write it's review in my head (thank you 'pursue 100'...), even after only reading a couple of pages, which leads me to not exactly judge a book by it's cover, but does mean that I do not give the author credit for their abilities and give them a chance to stun me - something which Salinger did, without a doubt, with this novel.
House of many ways
Diana Wynne Jones
This fantastic book takes us back to the land of Ingary, where magic and Seven League Boots do exist. This sequel to Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air is set in High Norland, a more remote part of Ingary. Charmain, a young woman who was brought up to be so respectable she knows nothing about anything except books, is volunteered by her aunt to house-sit for Great-Uncle William while he is away.
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children
By Ransom Riggs
To understand how I am going to review this book, you may need to know a little bit about my brother. He is not a reader. I can easily list all the fiction books he has read willingly. He has read all in the Harry Potter series but not the Deathly Hallows (odd, I know). In addition to these six he has also read the Scott Pilgrim manga but that is about it. Both of these series required movies to be made to encourage him to read them. Therefore, it is a huge recommendation to say he has actually read a book that does not have a movie and enjoyed it immensely.
