Lockwood and Co. Book 4 : The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
Recommended by Timothee Brian
This book is about a group of four young people going on many adventures of ghost-hunting in a ghost infested England. It is an action and adventure book. I liked it as you can really lose yourself in the book. It is very exhilarating, especially the end. It is well written, although the teenagers seem to be talking in quite a posh fashion, and it could maybe have been improved by cutting to the chase a bit quicker as we have to wait until after the middle of the book to actually start what the book is about. I would recommend this book but only to people who like fantasy books like Harry Potter as this is a very similar genre.
The Territory by Sarah Govett
Recommended by Leon Ryan Adams
A 15 year old girl named Noa is about to sit an exam that determines where she will live. In the future, sea levels have risen to the point that most land is uninhabitable, and so people living in the inhabitable land(the territory) must pass an exam to stay in it. However, rich parents pay for their children to be able to plug information into their heads, and so it is the rich who survive. Noa passes the exam but her best friend doesn’t, and so the next book is about her going to rescue him, and then getting back inside the territory. This book is very exciting and the characters are all interesting. The plot moves at a good pace and it is believable, though it was fiction so not in a realistic sense. The Territory is a classic dystopian book but mixed in with real world issues like sea levels and wealth gaps. My only criticism would be that the setting isn’t described in a way that I understand, as it is set in America so there are different land aspects and buildings. But I would 100% recommend it, as well as the next two books in the series.
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Recommended by Matthew Galea
The book is about a seventeen-year-old girl, Maddy, who is allergic to the outside world and hasn’t left her house ever. A boy, Olly, moves in next door who she starts to communicate with and soon he is allowed to come and visit which leads to them falling in love. Her mum isn’t happy with as it means that she spends less time with her and so Olly tries to see if there is some way of getting her outside or spending more time out of her decontaminated area. It is a well written book with a different structure to a larger book as the chapters seemed to be a lot shorter and less long winded. I think that it would have hooked me more in if something actually happened in the first few hundred pages and you didn’t have to read past that to be more interested in the book. I would recommend it to different people depending on what they preferred to read as it only appeals to some audiences: if you prefer books in roughly the same genre or style then I would recommend it, however if you do not I would say that it could expand your taste but it would not appeal to all.
Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey
Recommended by Theo Hiorns
Abaddon’s Gate is the final instalment of the ‘Expanse Series’. The book is about the colonisation of planets and the politics that comes with it. The thriller portrays a world no longer separated by countries, but by planets. Within the book, an alien weapon has created some kind of gate, and with tension rising between Mars, Earth, and the Belt, war seems inevitable, but a man named Jim Holden seeks to discover the mysteries of this gate, unravelling the mystery behind it. I adored reading this book, which is brilliantly written, with each event playing a key part in the discovery of each mystery or a solution to a problem. Each chapter switches from character to character, just when the suspense for the upcoming events has peaked, which induces a need to keep reading in the reader. I would definitely recommend this to any lover of action or sci-fi.
Many thanks to 4C for their recommendations, and to Mr Kemp for collating them.
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