Keep reading further to know more about this book! Lightning Strike By William Kent Krueger | Book ReviewĪs this is a prequel, you don’t need to read the rest of the books beforehand. I don’t plan on leaving you hanging with just this. I’m sure this isn’t enough, and you want more. Alaina and Killian, brought together by fate, will find a love that is too wonderful to last just one lifetime. There, she is taken hostage by her persona, a vicious outlaw named Killian.
I am disappointed that I have to wait for the release of a new book because I couldn’t wait to finish.Īlaina Costanza, a romance author, is propelled back in time and into the Western setting of her most recent book during a supernatural storm. Once more, the specifics drew me in and gave me a sense of being there. The information on Cork’s upbringing and upbringing, in general, was fascinating. This novel was one of the best books in the series, and I’ve read them all. I am most grateful to OUP Children’s Books for providing me with a review copy of Lightning Strike in exchange for my honest opinion.CrazyFitnessGuy® Healthy Living Podcast - Luke Murphy's "Finders Keepers" Book Interview! Put it into the hands of a Key Stage 3 pupil who has enjoyed reading the works of Emma Carroll, Katherine Woodfine or Michael Morpurgo at primary school and watch their face light-up with the joy of reading again. Additionally, it is so carefully constructed that it could re-ignite the spark of reading for pleasure which, sadly, the recent disruption to schooling has extinguished in some tweens and teens. It is first and foremost a brilliantly written, enjoyable story which will inform and entertain all readers in equal measure. I absolutely recommend this book to school library collections, classrooms and for home bookshelves for readers of 11+. Finally, there are discussion points, background information and a vocabulary list (which in keeping with the plain English style is called a Word List) at the end of the book. As you expect from Barrington Stoke, an off-white paper is used in combination with an easily readable font, so that anyone with visual stress or dyslexia will find it easier to read than traditionally printed books.
Even more impressively, the vocabulary and sentence structure have been carefully designed so that they are accessible with a reading age of about nine/ten. Tanya Landman introduces these themes organically through beautifully drawn characters, you never feel that you are being preached at, rather, the strands occur naturally within the intriguing plot. I don’t want to give away too much of the plot, but a catalyst for change arrives in the form of a “toff” who actually listens to the grievances of the working class leading Eliza and the factory’s match girls to discover the power of collective action.įor such a short book there are an amazing number of themes woven into the plot poverty, feminism, socialism, collective protest, religion and education. Eliza’s anger and frustration at their powerlessness burns through the pages.
Despite their backbreaking industry, the family can never afford enough to eat and are constantly worried that they will not be able to pay the rent. Their father works long hours in the dockyards, where tragic accidents are commonplace and their mother takes on piecework at home so that she can look after the youngest children. Eliza and her sister Nell work 12 hour shifts in the poisonous confines of the match factory, where a tray of dropped matches can lose a worker her week’s wages, a cruel and crooked foreman takes a cut of the wage packets and the prospect of the dreaded “phossy jaw” hangs in the air. It is told through the first person voice of Eliza, and through her eyes the reader is presented with a vivid picture of the lives led by the working poor in the East End of London during the Victorian era. The story is based on an actual event, the Match Girl’s Strike of 1888.
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Tanya Landman is an award winning author and her talent is on full display here as she conjures an enthralling work of historical fiction with fully imagined characters and a gripping plot in just over one hundred pages.
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This book is one of the Super-Readable Rollercoasters series published by OUP Children’s Books in association with Barrington Stoke, and in my opinion is a perfect spark to ignite enjoyment in reading. Cover art by Chaaya Prabhat, published by Oxford University Press in association with Barrington Stoke
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