In October, Amanda wrote about how much she enjoyed The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman, a brilliant and unique dystopian thriller about 15-year-old Ice Cream Star, who must risk her own life to save her brother's.
This book has been getting crazy amazing peer reviews from Kate Atkinson and Jonathan Safran Foer (to name a few), and December brought with it several starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist!
"Newman’s novel is ambitious, taking on race, sex, class, religion, politics, and war all at once. What sets the work apart is its unapologetic narrator, whose fantastically unbridled, wholly teenage point of view renders each page a pleasure to read.” - Publishers Weekly
"…a richly detailed dystopian epic that blends elements of American history, popular culture, and political allegory with romance and thriller pacing. This suspenseful, provocative tale is The Hunger Games meets Lord of the Flies and The Walking Dead, only much, much better." –Booklist
I think this can only mean one thing….download your egalley now and then populate your shelves with it!
– Annie