Friday, December 4, 2015

Icebreaker by Lian Tanner


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Icebreaker
Author: Lian Tanner
Lexile: 720
Length: 304 Pages
Genre: Fantasy
Awards: None
Reading Ram Star Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars
               
                      Imagine a gigantic ship that is on the verge of breaking completely. They travel in the freezing ocean waters of the north/south oceans. (It was never really specified in the book.) It is always very cold, and everyone on the ship is miserable. There are main tribes on the ship, that feud CONSTANTLY, but the main character, Petrel, is not one of them. Petrel's parents are dead, and she has been left to fend for herself on the ship. She is alone most of hte time, with no allies among the crew. Her only friends are a pair of grey rats. That can talk and do human things. (Go figure.) Now to explain the feuding tribes. There are three groups of enemies aboard the ship, the Officers that steer the ship, the cooks that make the food, and the engineers that fix everything when it breaks. But they are constantly feuding, and the only way they work together is for their own survival. One day, a mysterious child, a boy, is found on an iceberg in the middle of the sea. Naturally, the crew is suspicious, and they lock him up for questioning about where he came from. The big deal is, they never get visitors. Ever. The boy escapes from his imprisonment with the help of Petrel. But when he is discovered missing, he is accused of murdering an officer. Petrel helps him, but her choices might not have been wise. Now she and the boy are running for their lives on a ship, that, is completely and totally against them.
I thought this book was AMAZING!!! The author painted the story so well, with such a unique topic. They have technology, but not that much. And you later learn that there are people who want to destroy the ship, and it just makes the story so much better! I loved it, you should try it out in your free time!


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