Violet Black (#1 Black Spiral)
Author(s): Eileen Merriman
NZ Teen Fiction | 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Set in the near future, this first book in a fast-paced trilogy will hook you in from the first page.
Violet Black and Ethan Wright are both in a coma after contracting the lethal M-fever. They have never met.
- I couldn't speak, but I was trying so hard to communicate and then . . . then . . . I pushed. And something, someone, pushed back. Her name is Violet. Violet, but she is sunshine-yellow, and I need to find her because I think she might be just like me.
But there is a far more serious reason for Ethan to find Violet- the sinister Foundation is trying to hunt them down.
Kathleen's review - There was a measles epidemic back in the 2010s, and now, some years later, a new even-more-lethal strain of measles is killing kids. There's no viable vaccine yet (and there are the vociferous arguments from the anti-vaccers), but Violet and Ethan survive the encephalitis that the measles led into. Their brains, however, have been altered!
I really enjoyed the characters and the pace of this book - great questions about loyalty and control, and great development of the teens' mind-powers.
Product Information
Shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2022 - Young Adult Fiction Award
An action-packed start to a dystopian teen trilogy set in Aotearoa. Another great read from Eileen Merriman. - April
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin NZ
- : Penguin Books (NZ)
- : 0.236
- : 01 May 2021
- : 2.3 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Eileen Merriman
- : YF
- : 272
- : 823.3
- : en
- : Paperback