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Press Association review Sentinel
The Press Association have reviewed Sentinel! Check out what they thought below…
Just weeks before he turns 16, Nicholas Hallow is orphaned when his parents die in a bizarre train crash. They’d left him at home in Cambridge in the care of bubbly neighbour Tabatha, but hadn’t told him where they were going. In their absence, Nicholas finds a hidden room containing vast tomes of Sentinel Chronicles and a birthday gift from his parents. Sam, an elderly friend of the Hallows, is tasked with telling Nicholas what has happened to his folks and takes him through unseasonal snow to the remote country mansion home of his ‘godmother’.
On the way, Nicholas has a strange premonition moments before their decrepit bus is stormed by a beautiful, scarlet-clad woman intent on murder. Nicholas begs Sam to explain his parents’ secret life, but it falls to his strangely youthful godmother Jessica, to reveal that he himself is a Sentinel, a “supernatural demon hunter”.
Written poetically (“An angry black cloud was unfurling across the afternoon sun like a colossal inkblot”), with carefully-drawn characters, this is an extremely promising YA debut by a young author. 8/10
(Review by Kate Whiting)
Just weeks before he turns 16, Nicholas Hallow is orphaned when his parents die in a bizarre train crash. They’d left him at home in Cambridge in the care of bubbly neighbour Tabatha, but hadn’t told him where they were going. In their absence, Nicholas finds a hidden room containing vast tomes of Sentinel Chronicles and a birthday gift from his parents. Sam, an elderly friend of the Hallows, is tasked with telling Nicholas what has happened to his folks and takes him through unseasonal snow to the remote country mansion home of his ‘godmother’.
On the way, Nicholas has a strange premonition moments before their decrepit bus is stormed by a beautiful, scarlet-clad woman intent on murder. Nicholas begs Sam to explain his parents’ secret life, but it falls to his strangely youthful godmother Jessica, to reveal that he himself is a Sentinel, a “supernatural demon hunter”.
Written poetically (“An angry black cloud was unfurling across the afternoon sun like a colossal inkblot”), with carefully-drawn characters, this is an extremely promising YA debut by a young author. 8/10
(Review by Kate Whiting)
New book Killing Rumer now available at Unbound!
"I've killed more people than I can count, but I never meant to"
Hey everybody. Exciting news! My new book, a YA crime thriller called KILLING RUMER , is available over at Unbound! The way Unbound works is that when you pre-order your copy of the book, you help get it published - and you get your name in the book as a thank you!
What is KILLING RUMER ? Well it's about a teenage girl thrown into a world of gangsters and the occult. It's sort of like Jessica Jones meets Lisbeth Salander, with a little bit of Nancy from The Craft thrown in there. V gritty and attitude-y, with some pseudo-supernatural stuff that could all be in the mind of our heroine, or could be for real...
Please check it out here: http://unbound.com/books/killing-rumer
Thank you!
Have you heard the Rumer?
Well, it's true... my new YA thriller Vicious Rumer is OUT NOW from Unbound! Just look at that hot pink cover. I could swear it's looking right at us.
This book was an absolute blast to write and I'm really proud of it. I tried to write something lean, mean and unpredictable – I guess time will tell if I cracked it!
Please do add it to your Goodreads list here and let me know what you think!
And why not tweet or Facebook about it to help spread the Rumer? Be sure to @JoshWinning so I can retweet you!
Here's what some people have been saying about Rumer's story so far...
‘Violent but whip-smart… This thrill-ride will delight and enthral’ – Heat
‘It’ll keep you up all night’ – Closer
‘An exhilarating read’ – SFX
‘Bloody good and at times just plain bloody’ –Teen Reads
