Books
by Gabrielle Zevin
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Elsewhere |
"I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before she crossed the street" - Liz is fifteen - and dead. Her reactions are those of a teenager - anger, disappointment, resentment that she will not get a chance to pass her driving test, go to a prom, acquire a boyfriend. Now she is in Elsewhere - which is very like Earth except one gets younger everyday. Quirky, lively and American this is a refreshing teen read.
(Ferelith Hordon - bwl 33 February 2006) |
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow |
A group of gifted, computer-engineering students on the East Coast of America turn their recreational gaming into a successful international business. The examination of their diverse goals and backgrounds, their evolving relationships, passions and betrayals, make a totally engaging contemporary story, despite my innate prejudice against what I would have labelled time-wasting on devices, I accepted that the references to the multitude of games created, was actually essential to the resolution of the relationship between the two main characters.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 109 Summer 2023) |
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow |
To Sam and Sadie all the world's a literary video game. It's how they met as children and how as adults they lead their lives playing, inventing and creating new ones. For me a completely alien world yet I was drawn into their strange and complicated lives in which their friendship is the one constant sustaining them. It's weird but wonderful!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 110 Autumn 2022) |
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