Bloodtide
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Andersen Press
Age 12+
Traditional Stories Fantasy & Magical Realism
'Love. Hate. So what? This is family. This is business.'
London is in ruins. The once-glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families – the Volsons and the Connors.
Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter, Signy, to Connor as a truce. At first the marriage seems to have been blessed by the gods, but betrayal and deceit are never far away in this violent world, and the lives of both families are soon to be changed for ever . . .
'Shies from nothing, making it both cruel and magnificent' Guardian
'An epic tale of treachery, deceit, sex, torture, violence, revenge and retribution' Independent on Sunday
'Will rank along with the 20th-century classics' - Sunday Telegraph
Winner of the Lancashire Book Award
Creators
Melvin Burgess published his first book for children, Cry of the Wolf, in 1990 and has since gone on to win the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Carnegie medal, and many others. He has been described as 'a writer of the highest quality' (The Times) and is regarded as one of the best children's writers of our time.
Reviews
An epic tale of treachery, deceit, sex, torture, violence, revenge and retribution.
Independent on Sunday
Bloodtide and Bloodsong make The Hunger Games and its clones seem like drippy entertainments for bed-wetters and pillow-huggers.
Anthony McGowan, Guardian
A scary but compelling view of a possible world to come.
Kids Out
A story to curdle the blood and capture the imagination. . .(Burgess) has a fantastic imagination and draws out adolescent strong emotions very effectively.
Observer
As mythology collides with sci-fi, you’re dragged into a world of treachery and double-dealing as savage and bloody as that in any gangland saga.
Daily Telegraph
I can imagine it acquiring cult status among 16-year-olds.
Daily Telegraph
Shies from nothing, making it both cruel and magnificent.
Guardian
Will rank along with the 20th-century classics.
Sunday Telegraph
Burgess packs an enormous punch in this gripping, brilliant and scarily dark futuristic saga
Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading
Addictive reading, you can’t just read one chapter.
Luna's Little Library Blog
