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March 1, 2011/in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary /by Angie Hill
BfK Rating:
BfK 187 March 2011
Reviewer: Nicholas Tucker
ISBN: 978-1842556412
Price: £6.99
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Genre: Fiction
Age Range: 10-14 Middle/Secondary
Length: 384pp
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The Bad Tuesdays: Blood Alchemy

Author: Benjamin J Myers

This third instalment continues the grim and often violent story of Chess Tuesday and her brothers Box and Splinter, all up against the Twisted Symmetry, the name given to the cruel dictatorship operating somewhere out in space in a terrifying, dystopian future. With the first two titles recently re-issued with new covers, it seems that Benjamin Myers has managed to reach out to teenage readers in a way many other authors would envy. But while admiring the fertility of his imagination and the force of his writing, too many clichés and examples of hurried writing work against making these novels truly satisfying.

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