I already read and reviewed Riding Tycho
(I’ll wait while you go and look), and I was desperate to find out how the story continued, which has got to be a good sign yes? So I was very happy to find this in our library yesterday, and brought it home and started it last night.
It’s an easy read, though not quite as satisfying as the first one. What I liked about the first one was the description of the very different society our heroine is growing up in – I wondered how plausible it was though. In the second book the surroundings are not so far removed from our own, and there is little quite as challenging, although there is plenty of character development. Still plenty of twists and turns and enough to keep you reading along, and the story is brought to a satisfactory sort of conclusion, though I do wonder if there would have been a third had it not be for Jan Mark’s untimely death the year of publication.
I would recommend this book to teens and pre-teens with the rider I mentioned before – both children and women are regularly and casually hit in these books, so if you think that your child might be upset by that imagery, steer them away. Otherwise, these are good thought provoking novels, raising topics worthy of wider discussion.
Other books they brought to mind include:
The Warriors of Taan
, Andra
and Gate to Women’s Country
(though that last is definitely not a children’s book, with adult scenes of sex and violence).
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