While on the way to a new home with his sister and father, teenager Will Lightfoot spots a roadside advertisement for an amusement park called the "Perilous Realm." His father refuses to stop, so at the first opportunity, Will takes off on his dad’s motorbike, only to wreck it fleeing from the po...
Never before for me has a book that was demonstrating such glorious promise suddenly turned out to be crap. It built me up only to deliver a swift kick to the groin of my imagination when I least expected it. Sneaky.One of the first things that I noticed (and loved) about this book, apart from th...
This book was a Canada Reads selection in 2008, defended by astronaut Steve MacLean. I’m sorry I missed it then, and pleased that I finished reading Wharton’s debut novel (published in 1995) this morning. I now want to read everything he’s written since!I was as intrigued by the story as the aut...
But I cannot be Everything because then Nothing would be left out. – The Enigmatist’s Handbook LATE THAT AFTERNOON they stopped to rest by the side of a narrow, stony stream. Pendrake looked around approvingly and said that they were very close to the western border of the Bourne. Rowen was glad ...
The Marshal had taken her accusations seriously. And so she hadn’t complained when she was escorted once again to the room they were keeping her in at Appleyard. She was prepared to wait there patiently until word was brought to her that Brax had been evicted from the toyshop and she would be all...