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Havelock North High School

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  • The No-Show

    By Beth O'Leary
    4 stars

    I was drawn by the tagline 'three women, three dates. One msising man...' and was expecting a romance mystery murder, but it was very much just a romance. However, I found what I thought to be a terrible typo--that any editor should've found--before I came to realise (shortly thereafter) that it was, in fact, not a typo but a very clever intentional author moment which changed everything. From there, it was easy to predict the ending. For someone who doesn't normally read romance, dare I say, it was rather enjoyable (but the pace did slow in the middle).

  • Into the River

    By Ted Dawe
    3 stars

    Local Maori boy heads to a boarding school in the big smoke and gets into mischief but seems to 'lose' his name and himself there amongst all the racism and goings on. Or, does he find himself in the end?

  • Taniwha

    By Gavin Bishop
    4 stars

    Another beauty from Gavin Bishop! Since I didn't know all of these taniwha stories, it was very enlightening. I had forgotten that they take on many different forms.

  • Just Pretend

    By Tori Sharp
    2 stars

    Although I collected this from my high school library, it reads like an Intermediate-aged graphic novel. I loved the illustrations, but found the storyline a little lacking.

  • The Girl from the Sea

    By Molly Knox Ostertag
    3 stars

    Definitely YAF. A nicely drawn coming-of-age queer romance.

  • Crumbs

    By Danie Stirling
    4 stars

    A romance between two dream chasers: a seer and a guitarist. Loved the interactions with their mobiles: Stella and Wobble. The baked goods at Marigold's sound intriguing: romance, confidence, contentment, melancholy, awe, courage and joy (to name a few).

  • The Greatest Thing

    By Sarah Winifred Searle
    4 stars

    This story deals with anxiety, eating disorders, changing relationships, finding yourself, counselling and self-harm against a backdrop of a writing collaboration between an artist and an author.

  • Fangirl

    By Rainbow Rowell
    3 stars

    Jumps between meeting a new roommate as a freshman, lunches with the twin who wants her independence, trips home to see a father, library sessions with a new writing partner from a course and the bombshell info that the mother wants to reconnect with the twins. Oh, and there's the writing tutor who thinks very little of her first independent assignment...

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