Three years earlier, Jonah and Taylor had run away together, heading towards Sydney to try and find her mother. She also has her friend Raffaela who sticks by her despite Taylor's best efforts to push her away, and perennial pest, Jessa McKenzie, that Taylor can't rid herself of no matter how hard she tries.ĭealing with the enemy is going to be that much more difficult for Taylor because the leader of the cadets is a boy named Jonah Griggs. She has only one other house leader on her side, and he must stay by her side otherwise the other house leaders have the power to usurp her position. Whilst Taylor has been elected as leader, her grip on the leadership is a little tenuous, so she must do everything in her power to ensure that the schoolies don't lose any territory, and if possible to negotiate additional rights and ground with the enemy. There are rules of engagement, maps, and there will be consequences if anyone steps into enemy territory. These territory wars have been going on for 20 years or so, and it is a very serious business. This means that her most important responsibility is to lead the school in the annual territory wars between the school, the townies from nearby Jellicoe and the cadets from the city who come and camp for six weeks nearby. She has just been made the leader of the boarders. Taylor Markham is a senior at Jellicoe School. So what is it about this book that makes it so good?
To those people (Kat, Bree and Belle amongst others) I say, yes, you were right.
I should mention that I have been being told for years that I should read Melina Marchetta. Given how rarely I reread, and certainly never finish a book and just start it again straight away, this is high praise indeed! I love it when a book compels you to behave in a way that you don't normally do so. It isn't out of the question that I will listen to it again or read it in book form. I loved this book so much that I ended up listening to the audio version of it twice in as many weeks. Is it possible to become a total fangirl for an author based only on one book? If you are me, and the author is Melina Marchetta, then apparently it is!
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