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Winner of the Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2019 Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 Quick-witted, sharp-tongued Connor Lambert won't take it any longer: the bullying, the secrets, the sympathy. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. To conceal his presence Rok adopts the identity of the first person he encounters - bad boy footballer Kyle Dixon - and as Dixon he develops an unexpected but all-consuming love for 'the beautiful game'. Connor’s mom is out of the picture, and without anyone to care for him, he ends up in Dachaigh House – an institution for violent youths – with Skeates.Interesting and took unexpected turns, however had a lot of 'coincidences' which seemed a little bit unrealistic to me. I liked the characters Connor and Skeates, and enjoyed the evolution of their relationship which was really sweet. Forming an unlikely friendship with fellow juvenile delinquent Skeates, the pair stage a break out and set off on a crazy tour across Scotland — dodging the police, joy riding and extreme partying — to find Connor’s dad, an inmate at Shotts prison. Innis Munro is walking home across the bleak wilderness of Nin Island when he hears the chilling howl of a wolf.

Sure he’s crushing on his best “girl friend,” Emma, and he has daily run-ins with the school bully, Skeates. So when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the West Coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. But when the two of them disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, she becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. I particularly enjoy books with quirky characters that make me laugh, and this one certainly does not disappoint.

But while Farewell Tour of a Terminal Optimist has all this, it also has a lot of charm and fun and happiness to offer the reader. Any number of people had reason to assault Harry Bains but his seventeen year old step son Lorn McGregor is the one in custody, and he needs to get out. If you need an author to have specialist skills, experience or knowledge beyond their creative work, please ask for more information about this ahead of booking them for an event. He decides to investigate his island home and accepts an ancient challenge: he who jumps the Bonnie Laddie's Leap wins a fortune.

As the wolves rise from the darkness of history, and long-buried secrets resurface, Innis's adventure truly begins . Now the girl who has never left the city walls must fight to survive in a living nightmare, where one false turn with who to trust means a certain dead end. After he fights at school, while his mother has a breakdown and ends up at the hospital, he is sent to a government housing for minors thing along with his sworn enemy, the boy he fought with, Skeates.The greatest writing hurdle was to find humour in pain whilst retaining emotion so that anyone experiencing similar feelings might find solace. Despite their former rivalry, Connor and Skeates form an alliance and set out on a road trip (of sorts) to see Connor’s dad in prison with a little money and without Connor’s seven medications he takes twice a daily to keep his cancer at bay. It has some great things: Scottish slang, wild plot, male characters that are not overly sentimental and thus might be relatable to a certain kind of reader, but all the aspects that make it good are also the flaws.

Well, we’re all terminal, because as Connor keeps saying, ‘nadie deja este mundo vivo’ which means no one leaves this world alive.Anyway to sun up I thought this was a really heartwarming book and while I don’t think it was particularly deep this isn’t a bad thing at all. Dodging the police, joy riding and extreme partying — if Connor’s dying, he might as well enjoy one last wild adventure. Normally I don't like this type of YA book, but what I really liked about this one was the Scottish setting. Writing brings escape but it also exposes emotions and when someone reads any narrative it becomes their own and they’ll never understand it the way you do. Somehow, Connor and Skeates find common grounds, escape before their hearing and start a trip from the isle of Lewis to Shotts, near Glasgow, where Connor’s father is incarcerated.