Indigo Owl: A blog tour post!
To celebrate the release of Indigo Owl, here's my blog tour stop with thanks to AusYABloggers and Wakefield Press! Check out more stops on the tour here!
Here's a brief synopsis:
After Earth was destroyed by climate change and overpopulation, private corporations colonised new planets. On one such planet, Galbraith,the fertility of its citizens is tightly controlled. But at what cost?
When Scarlet Bergen leaves her childhood home to be trained at the Arcadia Institute, harnessing her psychic Solitaire talents, it feels like the beginning of her future. But on the Institute steps, her father whispers a life-changing secret about the past. Her mother, a geneticist who disappeared when Scarlet was ten, had enemies …
Scarlet vows to discover the truth about her mother – and is joined in her mission by fellow cadets with their own family secrets and special talents: tech-savvy Rumi, a tenacious truth-hunter, and Dylan, the aloof classmate who can literally read her mind.
Together, they’ll uncover a planet-wide conspiracy … and discover that there’s little the Galbraith Executives won’t do to get what they want.
My review:
This is definitely an interesting take on dystopian fiction, and I actually really enjoyed the idea of this one. The characters were interesting and so was the premise. I loved how it was also super fast paced, making it an easy read!
The futuristic academy city of Galbraith was interesting, and I certainly enjoyed most aspects of learning about it, although I felt that I was missing something at a few points. It was super intriguing to be split into different classes (kind of like in Kaufman and Kristoff's Aurora Academy), and I loved how there were these auras and a focus on emotions throughout the book, because a lot of scifi/dystopia don't leave us with many emotional characters, and this one certainly bucks the trend.
The perceptively evil corporation behind everything was something else I really enjoyed as well! I recommend this one for any YA dystopian lover, or anyone looking for a different kind of read to their usual.
I rate this title a 3.5/5.
About the author:
harlie has worked as a primary years educator for many years. She has a Master of Education Degree in Studies of Asia and has spent time teaching in the UK, Australia, and Indonesia. In addition to teaching she has a passion for creative writing. Her new young adult novel is Indigo Owl.
Charlie’s debut young adult novel, Mallee Boys, was the recipient of the 2016 Adelaide Literary Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award and was a 2018 Children’s Book Council of Australia Honour book. Her middle grade manuscript, Red Bottomed Boat, was shortlisted for the 2020 Text Prize.
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