Weekend reads
View(s):Delirium by Lauren Oliver
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If they found a cure for love, would you take it?
Love used to be a good thing, until we realised that once the deliria blooms in your blood, it claims you utterly. There’s no escape. Seventeen year old Lena Holoway is just months away from being permanently cured by the government programme that all citizens must enter when they turn 18.
She’s been told that a life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
First line: It has been sixty-four years since the President and the Consortium identified love as a disease and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
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The capaill uisce – the terrifying, meat-eating water horses – were not meant to be ridden but on the island of Thisby, men ride them. They risk death with every pounding step along the beaches, but a win in the Scorpio Races brings glory and wealth.
19 year old Sean Kendrick and his horse Corr are already legends on the beach, but a new competitor is about to challenge them. Kate Connolly, who everyone calls Puck, knows better than most how dangerous the races are, but she’s convinced that winning them is the solution to all her problems. Even if it isn’t, she’s out of options. Puck will be the first girl ever to race, but she’s not the only one who has bet everything on the outcome of the Scorpio Races.
First line: It is first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Saba and twin brother Lugh are alive at the end of the world. The Wrecker Civilisation has been utterly destroyed and Silverlake is a parched wasteland, at the mercy of ravaging dust storms. But when Lugh is kidnapped, Saba knows she’ll do anything to get him back.
When she meets Jack and the Free Hawks, a gang of girl revolutionaries, Saba has her own army. They’re fiercer, smarter and more determined than anyone else around and their unrelenting search for Lugh is about to create a showdown that will change the course of civilisation. Beautiful writing, an extraordinary quest and a heart wrenching love story – Moira Young’s debut is one of the best of 2012.
First line: The day’s hot. So hot an dry that all I can taste in my mouth is dust.
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