The SF Site: Featured Reviews Archive

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Winter by John Marsden
reviewed by Georges T. Dodds
Winter, a 16-year-old orphan with attitude to spare, is troubled with a mystery of her own childhood. Returning to her biological parents' homestead in the outback, she is unhappy to find that little has been done to keep the place up in the 12 years of her absence. She gradually discovers more about her father's accidental death, and something of her mother's death several months later, but people are being very closed-mouth about the whole thing.

The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
reviewed by Georges T. Dodds
Seventh in the series, this novel follows The Night is For Hunting in which out team had just killed off an enemy patrol nosing around the outskirts of their hideout. Here, only 24 hrs later, Ellie, Homer, Kevin and Lee rendezvous with a helicopter bringing them a specialist in guerrilla tactics. Returning to their hideout, they manage to kill or capture another enemy patrol making its way into their now useless hideout. The allied forces are about to launch a final large offensive.

The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden
reviewed by Georges T. Dodds
These books are fast-paced, suspense-filled, realistic, emotionally-charged and psychologically-detailed. The Tomorrow series is an elevation of adventure literature to heights that are only achieved once or twice in a generation. Georges is already regarding it as a modern classic.

The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden
reviewed by Georges T. Dodds
Georges finds this series to be among the best imaginative fiction he's read in 10 years. It doesn't matter if you're a teenager or a middle-aged businessman, these books transcend age barriers. In their portrayal of the harrowing, gut-wrenching brutality of war, these books will entertain you, stun you, make you think -- but they simply won't let you put them down.

A Killing Frost by John Marsden
reviewed by Thomas Myer
Sensory detail pervades this novel of war, told from the point of view of a teenager, who, with her friends, becomes a partisan against an intractable enemy that has invaded her homeland.

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