Published February 16, 2008
I hope no one's already done a thread on this because I'm really gonna look like an idiot....I just wanted to say, wow! I love this woman's work!
I think she's wrote three books to date, all of which are amazingly strange.
Her first was an award winner-'How I live now'
The second one was really dark and ironically funny called 'Just In Case'
And her third, called 'What I was' had the best plot twist I think I've ever read in a book, and I'm not saying that lightly.
Anyone else like her books?
Eimear
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OMG I love them! How I Live Now is definitely ranked amongst my favourites, despite the incesty bits. It's just gorgeous.
I really do adore it. I was eleven when I first read it (I think) so you can imagine in the beginning I was a little scared, but when I reread it in the autumn I just loved it, it's amazing.
Just In Case was good fun. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be, but it was...
I kinda gave up 40 pages into What I Was. It just wasn't striking me like the last two did. Although (I know I must sound so shallow) the cover is so pretty, I love looking at it more than reading the book, it's just so nice.
I did my book report for Christmas on I'm Not Scared, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and How I Live Now.