On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

I loved her voice and watching her eyes be opened to a history that she never knew she had any part in. I admit, I was confused as hell for the first 125 pages but as you ease into the story and really immerse yourself into the world everything becomes clear and the story is just so well thought out. The way that they are revealed feels almost magical and you aren’t too sure what to think for the first quarter of the novel. That’s what really gets you with this story, the connections. From the very beginning I was wrapped up in the writing and I met some amazing characters with bonds that I will not soon forget.

Upon tweeting about a slump that I was in Bekka of Great Imaginations told me to finally pick it up and I am so happy that she did. This novel came into my life a while ago in a gift from my lovely co-blogger and it sat on my shelf all lonely and cold for far too long. It’s really making me think about ARC requesting and prompting me to look at my overflowing TBR shelf and wonder what other gems are in there. When I think about what I want to say about Jellicoe Road all that comes to mind is that I can’t believe that this amazing novel was sitting under my nose for so long. The moving, joyous and brilliantly compelling new novel from the best-selling, multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca. She needs to find out more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange, recurring dream, and finding her mother - who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road. Taylor's only clue is a manuscript about five kids who lived in Jellicoe eighteen years ago.

She has to keep the upper hand in the territory wars and deal with Jonah Griggs - the enigmatic leader of the cadets, and someone she thought she would never see again.Īnd now Hannah, the person Taylor had come to rely on, has disappeared. Taylor is leader of the boarders at the Jellicoe School. Hannah, who found me on the Jellicoe Road six years ago.

Hannah, who is too young to be hiding away from the world. And I tell him about Hannah, who lives in the unfinished house by the river. I tell him about the war between us for territory. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. Published by HarperTeen on August 26th 2008

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On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta