This is an intriguing story. The world created by de Pierres is fascinating, strange, and dangerous. We are only allowed glimpses of it, through the eyes of various characters.Ixion itself is full of mysteries and questions, most of which are left unanswered. There is a pervading air of menace and danger throughout, which adds to the suspense and tension that steadily builds as the story progresses.

It is a riveting read! There is also good characterisation, and the main character is believable and interesting.There are some references to sex and drugs, but these are fairly minimal. Although this book would be classed as science fiction/fantasy, it will also appeal to young peoplewho don’t usually read in those genres, and would be an excellent addition to secondary libraries. Recommended. RK

If you want to win a copy of Burn Bright, a couple of opportunities are coming up.

The first is at the Sassy Book Lovers page on Facebook. If you like their page you’re in the running to win an autographed copy.

The other way you can win Burn Bright is by tuning in to Fragments of Life and Ameratsu Reads week of Dystopian Domination on May 18th.

This is a special shout out to all my wonderful readers who’ve been supporting Burn Bright and helping spread word of it to the international reading community. First there’s Missie’s Aussie Book Tour at The Unread Reader.

Then bloggers like YA Concoction, She Who is Known as Jess and In The Good Books who are doing extra give aways. And CubicleBlindness for epic tweeting.

And Renee at YA Book Reads who’s put together a GREAT video blog promo.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwpYM52Nk04

There’s also the fan clip made by Abbey:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHqz0pFCcQ&feature=youtu.be

And the others on Facebook like Fay Bear, Kate McTaggart et al. You are all fantastic!

Hi Everyone, just wanted to pop in and share some of my latest busy-ness.

I just got back from a few days book tour in Melbourne where I visited some great schools including Sunshine College, Manor Lakes, St Catherine’s (read their blog) and Presentation College.

Also had a most enjoyable kaffee klatsch at the Pancake Manor organised by Braiden from YA Concoction and you can see more photos over at his site. It was brilliant to get an opportunity to see my peeps Al Goodman and Janette Dalgliesh (who is now writing for the Marianne Delacourt site), and meet both Braiden and Skye (In The Good Books). To top it off we got a surprise visit from the lovely Adele Walsh (Persnickety Snark), and Sue Bursztynski popped in on her way to the Nova group meeting. All in all, a great hour or so.

The next day I had a radio interview at 3CR with Jan Goldsmith. We talked all things Burn Bright. The show will be on air next Thursday and the podcast will be available next week as well.

Last port of call was The Pines (library and Dymocks store). Only one brave soul turned up for the talk, but she made it more than worthwhile making the trek there. *Waves* at Julie Haydon. It also meant I got a chance to talk to the wonderful Dymocks manager, Claire, about her other life as a photographer. Wow check out her photos!!! (This is a facebook link; sorry if you’re not hooked up there)

We’re still working on overseas sales for The Night Creatures trilogy, so hang in there! Special shout out to Fay Bear and all those spreading Burn Bright love to overseas readers.

Now some news for YOU. My publisher has announced a fantastic competition. Make a 90 second book trailer of one of a selection of their books and win $1000 cash plus a heap of books for you school.

You can watch the competition information video on my new YourTube site or on the Random House site.

Of course you know which book I’ll be hoping you choose! Ahem.

There’s been a bunch of reviews continuing to flow in, especially from GoodReads. Here are links to a few of them; Tracey Lea, CBCA blog, In The Good Books, Kate Gordon.

And finally, some new interviews/blogs are up at She Who Is Known as Jess and Strange Candy with others to come soon for We Love YA Blog, Fragments of Life, Adventures of a Bookanaut and ReelSwellBlog.

St Catherine's author visit ( photo courtesy of their blog)

Join the GoodReads group SOS (Serious Overload of Series) as they discuss Burn Bright as their May Book of the Month.