Rating: 5/5
Review:
A terrific YA thriller
I thought this was a terrific YA thriller. Its basic idea is excellent and the narrative moves at a terrific pace.
The book is set in Canberra, Australia in the near future and told in the first person. It is hard to give a flavour of the story without spoiling too much - the first ten pages or so are a great set-up and I would have hated to know even that much before starting the book. It's a thoughtful and intelligent story, but crammed with action. You may find yourself able to anticipate some of the plot "twists", but that didn't matter to me at all; the characters are very well painted and the story has a good structure and it's so well done that I just enjoyed the ride. [I have to add, though, that the author's understanding of the mechanism and effects of electromagnetism doesn't reflect well on his physics teachers. :o) ]
The book is aimed at young adults, but this definitely-not-young adult also enjoyed it immensely and I can recommend it as a gripping, exciting and also rather thought-provoking book.
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