Before you pick this book up, I’ve got to warn you: it is heartbreaking. There is beauty and hope there, too, but there is so much sadness in this story that begins with a car accident in which five people die on the Jellicoe Road. Three survive, though, and one saves them and the bodies of their loved ones. One more is added to their number, and those five friends are everything to each other.
Over two decades later, Taylor Markham is a student at the Jellicoe School. She becomes the leader of her school in the territory wars between the Jellicoe School students, the Townies, and the Cadets, who come in for six weeks from the city. The three factions fight and negotiate and bargain for territory, with an extensive set of rules and lots of tradition and history. That history is personal, too, when it comes to the relationship between Taylor and Jonah Griggs, the Cadets’ leader…
Read the rest of my review on Chicklish
This book will be released in the USA with the title “Jellicoe Road”, to be published by HarperTeen in September 2008.
Check out my review of Melina Marchetta’s Saving Francesca on Curled Up With A Good Kid’s Book.
April 18, 2008 at 4:11 pm
This book sounds great! Do you happen to have a contact at HarperTeen you would be willing to share? I’ve tried to get in contact with their publicity department for months and it just ain’t happening! If you do have a contact you wouldn’t mind sharing, just drop me an email! Thanks!
AmandaLSnow@yahoo.com
April 19, 2008 at 5:21 am
Hi! I hope Jocelyn won’t mind me jumping in with a reply! The version of Jellicoe Road that we read was published in Australia, and the information we have about publication by HarperTeen is taken from Amazon. Sorry not to be more help, but I hope you enjoy the book if you get hold of it!
November 16, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hi,
I read the twilight saga
over the summer,
and a lot of other books since then.
Looking for another favorite.
Twilight and the other four books
were very good as well.
I didnt think that it was possible
to find another book just as good,
But I did. This book is so well written,
I loved it so much and I would glady read it again.
January 26, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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March 2, 2009 at 11:22 am
This book was really amazing. It had troubled characters that were all connected and found solace in each other. Truly one of the best books I have ever read.
September 28, 2009 at 1:38 am
This review is spot on. Jellicoe Road is so achingly sad and poignant, but at the same time so hopeful and filled with emotion. It is very difficult to describe the genius of this book and its author, but read this book and you will not be dissapointed (although you could claim that for any of Melina Marchetta’s books. She is THAT good).
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