It’s heartbreaking and beautiful all at the same time. Read an Excerpt Nightjar I woke to the cold kiss of steel on my throat. She lives in Mexico with her husband, two children, two cats, and one very lazy dog. She’s tough but learns to open up and love those around her. Ann Aguirre is a national bestselling author whose first novel for young adults, Enclave, was praised as 'for fans of The Hunger Games ' by Publishers Weekly. I had to force myself to go to sleep at night when all I really wanted to do was stay up and binge-read. It had everything I look for in a YA suspense: excellent plot arc, engaging and believable characters, adventure and action, good writing – even some swoony romance. All unaccounted for given the distance and frequency of visits by growers as described.īut despite these minor issues, I loved this book. ANN AGUIRRE is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author. This wouldn’t work – you would need to set up an irrigation system or water them daily, they’d need fences to guard against deer and other herbivorous creatures and the plants would need regular weeding and tending. Outpost is the second book in Ann Aguirres page-turning The Razorland Trilogy. Some examples: Why were the fields outside the walls and exposed when the town depends on yearly crops for survival? Why didn’t Aguirre provide more detailed descriptions of setting – in particular the size and population of the town and relative size and placement of said fields? Why aren’t all (or at least all male, since that’s their sexist thing) townsfolk taught to fight? And then there are some agricultural issues, like describing planting fields and leaving them until plants had begun to grow. There were elements of this book that didn’t work for me, of course.
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