Bloom: 1 (The Overthrow)

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His novels for young readers, mainly for middle-graders, range in a variety of settings, subject matter, and genres to choose from, but there is always a take-home message with which kids can identify. Divided loyalties, tested friendships, first loves, a changing home life and family secrets are all contained within this readable and amusing tale about the difficulties faced by adolescent girls.

Her only ambition is to win her school’s Most Obedient Child Competition, follow all the rules, and bring a smile to her unhappy mum’s face. Ro is surprised to find herself instantly in love, because she has never had such strong feelings for another woman before.There is a backstory that plays out among the characters and their past, for example, Anaya has terrible allergies and acne that she needs to take immense precautions every day just to do her daily living.

black vines that grow rapidly and spread pollen that causes extreme allergies in anyone coming into contact with them. Lottick tells Strasheim that the Mycora have apparently been stealing or assimilating human designed defensive nanotech and may soon develop resistance to the coldness of the outer Solar System, which incites concern. That said, they are experiencing some freaky side effects, including the growth of, respectively, fur, a tail, and feathery wings.For Anaya, Petra and Seth, the arrival of these plants coincides with a strange but undeniable sense of power and ease. As the island attempts to solve the problem they discover it’s not just in Salt Spring but around the world. Oh, the second book (which I am partway through) says the characters are 16 (as they are having a birthday) so in this one they are 15. This book also takes a while to get going, and feels like it takes a while to get going, even though it's short.

It was great to see the bond develop between the three characters, and there were positives in terms of the initial threat. Free to conduct your lives in the classical manner, to escape this solar system, to populate the stars. They have come to symbolise a gamut of complex human emotions, including hope, delight, love, compassion, gratitude, grief, and loss.How is she a literature prof if she's never read Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems?

The parallels to what is currently happening in the COVID-19 pandemic is so eerily strange, even though this book was written long ago and even published right before/at the start of this pandemic.they're defined by individual primary-color traits: seth is a new-here foster kid, petra is beautiful and popular and allergic to water, anaya is allergic to. Delicate and murderous, Bloom is the perfect encapsulation of a subgenre I'd only heard of in theory but now exists in its final form: cozy horror. But as Ro is caught up in the whirlwind of infatuation, readers will start to suspect Ash might be too good to be true. Though botany is one of my least favorite and unessential things to know (in my life) I liked the educational content of the novel.