Exodus - Julie Bertagna

Advantages: A unique book, well written and unputdownable
Disadvantages: Isn't long enough

...this book. :: EXODUS - The low-down:: Bertagna's "Exodus" is divided into 3 separate areas (Savage Earth, Netherworld, Noospace) then they're each separated into chapters. Mara Bell is an inhabitant of a drowning island, Wing, one of few left after an enormous melt down of the polar ice-caps up north causing a worldwide flood. Wing isn't given a location, but further on through the book, you begin to get the idea it's an island somewhere around ...
...stone, is Mara's……… :: EXODUS - Pro's and con's:: Pros: Bertagna writes in a style that keeps you awake throughout the book, and somehow with this style also manages to make you stop for a while, and think about what may happen or go over what has just happened. Exodus has an awesome story line and covers a fast world and introduces you to oh-so many characters and personalities and creates your own world inside your mind purely from imagination ... Read review

Advantages: Fabulous description, amazing imaginative worlds, likable chacters, believable [almost] setting...
Disadvantages: Deaths at beginning were a little blunt and rushed, development of villan could have been better...

...Exodus is a magical, truly entracing novel telling a tale that explores a frighteningly believable future of our world... Mara lives on one of the only remaining land masses in our world, an island called Wing, somewhere over what we know as Scotland, but is a forgotten land in Mara's time. But her island is slowly swallowed by the sea, and the islanders' only hope is to travel on, following rumours of new cities, rising out of the sea to touch ...
...for me, the reason that Exodus is such an extraordinary book. From the simple, pleasant life on Wing, we are plunged into the dark depths of the Netherworld, and then whisked up to New Mungo, the world of the future. But far from being a tacky attempt at time-travel, Bertagna takes a refreshing, original, and most important of all, believable take on where our future generations are living. In both Noospace [a computer dimension accessible by the ... Read review