This One is Ours: A blog tour post!


To celebrate the release of This One is Ours, here's my blog tour stop with thanks to AusYABloggers and UQP! Check out more stops on the tour here!


Here's a brief synopsis:
Sixteen-year-old Sofie is a dreamer, an artist and a romantic. So when she goes on exchange to Paris, she is expecting magnificent adventures of the heart and mind. Yet France isn't what she imagined. It's cold and grey, and she finds speaking another language exhausting. Sofie’s more homesick than lovesick.

But then her host sister, Delphine, and fellow artist Olivier show her a different side of Paris, and Sofie starts to question her ideas of art, beauty and meaning. Of everything. There’s truth in what her best friend, Crow, has been saying all along: the world is in crisis and people need to take notice.

But what can one girl do? Will Sofie be able to find the courage to fight for change?

This One is Ours is a call to action for anyone who feels helpless about the state of the world, as well as an ode to all the tiny beautifuls that make it worth saving.  


My review:
I loved how Sofie was a dreamer, and jumped at the chance she was given to pursue her passion in France. It made my heart swell, and it was definitely such a powerful feeling at the start of the book!

I definitely enjoyed the themes in this book, including tackling change, protesting, terrorism, natural disasters, and climate change. All of these are very relevant during the current age, and exploring these themes through a teenager's viewpoint is something that I believe that everyone should read! I also love how there were mentions of homesickness, and of romance as well. The adventures and scenery was also super well written, and it kind of felt like I was right there experiencing everything with Sofie.

The cast of characters were also unique, and it was interesting to have some of them tag along for the journey in this book- angst, tears, sweat- basically it all! I also felt that the writing was clearer than water (and I'm not referring to Melbourne's Yarra River here), and definitely rounded out this wonderful book nicely!

This is the perfect book to suggest to young adults as they start to navigate the world on their own, forming their own views and opinons- especially in these current times. 

I rate this title a 4/5.

About the author:
Kate O'Donnell is a writer, editor and bookseller specialising in children’s and young adult literature. She has a BA in History and French from the University of Melbourne and studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Her first novel, Untidy Towns, was shortlisted for the Indie Book Award and the Readings Young Adult Book Prize in 2018. This One is Ours is her second novel.

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