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Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Okay. We'll start with  Jellicoe Road   because it's the one I read first. I picked it up as a result of  Trisha's glowing, cryptic in a good way review  and the fact that it came away with the  Printz Award  this year. It is Australian  Melina Marchetta 's third book and the first of hers I've read. A fault that will have to be remedied quickly as I absolutely loved this knotty, painful, beautiful book.  Taylor Markham is head of her house at the Jellicoe School--a backwoods boarding school located somewhere in Australia. Abandoned by her mother at a 7-Eleven on the Jellicoe Road, Taylor was taken in by a mysterious woman named Hannah and installed at the school. Now eighteen, Taylor is embroiled in turf wars between the Jellicoe students, the Townies, and the Cadets. But when Hannah up and leaves without a word, Taylor is convinced it has something to do with her mother and with a horrific accident that happened on the Jellicoe Road twenty-two years before. Past a...

Gobsmacked

Please accept my apologies for the unusual pause in our regularly scheduled programming here. I seem to have read  Jellicoe Road   followed by a double chaser of The Thief and The Queen of Attolia . Am now sitting here gobsmacked at the excellence. Reviews to follow just as soon as I recover the power of speech.