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| Original Title: | Thyla |
| ISBN: | 1864718811 (ISBN13: 9781864718812) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Thyla #1 |
| Characters: | Perrin, Tessa Connolly, Rachel Connolly, Edward Lord, Charlotte Lord, Isaac Livingston, Rhiannah |
| Setting: | Tasmania(Australia) |
Kate Gordon
Paperback | Pages: 279 pages Rating: 3.66 | 558 Users | 73 Reviews
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| Title | : | Thyla (Thyla #1) |
| Author | : | Kate Gordon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 279 pages |
| Published | : | January 18th 2012 by Random House Australia (first published April 1st 2011) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy. Cultural. Australia |
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"My name is Tessa. I am strong. I am brave. I do not cry. These are the only things I know for certain. I was found in the outback, ragged as a wild thing. I have no memory; not even of how I got the long slashes across my back. They make me frightened of what I might remember. The policewoman, Connolly, found me; and placed me; in a boarding school and told me about her daughter, Cat, who went missing in the outback. I think there is a connection between Cat, me, and the strange things going on at this school. If I can learn Cat's story, I might discover my own and stop it happening again."A thrilling paranormal tale of shapeshifting, a centuries-old war, and finding out who you really are when your memories betray you.
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Ratings: 3.66 From 558 Users | 73 ReviewsCritique Of Books Thyla (Thyla #1)
Tasmania's forests have a history of being battlegrounds. In recent times the timber men have diced with the environmentalists over their bounty - is it for the present generation or for those of the future. As in this fine novel, in the island's real life conflict there is an uneasy truce, a tenuous 'treaty' having emerged. In the early days though of colonisation there was a similar, unwritten truce between the invaders,the first Tasmanians and the fringe-dwellers, belonging to neither group,I really enjoyed this book! The whole concept was interesting, and it was absolutely not one I had come across before. This is a rarity, when one reads as much YA as I do. Tessa wakes up with no memories, except her name and a small list of likes and dislikes. There is a single police woman who is kind to her (although carrying her own personal grief) and arranges for her to attend a local boarding school. There are some awesome characters, and the mystery grows. I really enjoyed the journey to
That's it! I'm moving to Australia! Oooh, boy. You truly cant go wrong with Aussie YA authors! Ive read some awful books lately and by the time I picked up Thyla, I was becoming quite desperate. Kate Gordon saved my life, or at the very least the rest of my vacation. Amazing writing. And I mean AMAZING writing! Not as good as Raw Blue, but close enough. Gordon has this way of making you picture everything in your head without being overly descriptive. In fact, her writing is not descriptive at
What I loved about Thyla: Tessa is a wonderful and innocent and inadvertently hilarious protagonist (she is terribly old-fashioned, for reasons which quickly become clear, despite the novel being set in the present. Her experience of eating waffles for the first time was very funny). The historical aspects are incorporated brilliantly, and the setting (the creepy boarding school, Tasmanian wilderness) is atmospheric and tense and all of those other good things in a mystery. I loved the
I really enjoyed Thyla. The synopsis only really covers the first half if the book but if you look at the genres listed it says paranormal and fantasy. I actually saw this before I started reading so I was prepared for the 2nd half (as other reviews called it). I love how there are no traditional werewolves/vampires but whole unique packs of creatures (Tasmanian were-tigers and were-devils/ Thylas and Sarcos). The book is very original and incorporates some history in it as well. Unfortunately,
Thanks Maja for your great review of this that led me to try out the works of an Aussie author. I really enjoyed it.Tessa, found in a bush and brought to a hospital, wakes up with absolutely no memory but her name. And I mean, NO memory. Of anything. The tiny people in the TV scare her! So she gets sent to this school with this missing girl... duh duh duuuuuuuuuh.What a great author. The writing is so wonderfully simple that it's easy to get lost in Tessa's words. The prose is truly unique. I
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