I will drop a couple of reviews here in addition to the insta page. I've just had the chance to read Mark Wales new book.
“Jess flinched at the very mention. Outrider. Rare. Highly trained. All combat experienced, with multiple tours. Extremely high IQs. Their capabilities could turn battles. Storms. Earthquakes. Tactical nukes. Outriders were the most elite troops AUKUS ever created, and they’d been hunted since the occupation began in 2029.”
Background: When you are asked to be the Reading Officer of Brothers and Books you get some pretty nifty perks, such as receiving Advanced Reader Copies of books. Thank you Mark Wales and his team at Pan Macmillan Australia for providing me with a copy of Outrider for review.
Lessons: Can we learn from a Fiction in the same way that we can learn lessons from Non-Fiction. Absolutely.
“What if there’s no hope?” “There’s always hope. There’s always a way,” said Harry. “That’s the truth,” said Jack.
The theme of Hope is central to this book. Hope has the profound ability to inspire, motivate and sustain individuals through challenges and adversity. Jack Dunne harnesses and models this Hope to his young son throughout the book and we can see the positive effects this has on the 12 year old boy who has known nothing but war.
Conclusions: Mark has created a vast and interesting new world for his creation Jack Dunne to play in. This story brings the visceral writing of Matthew Reilly together with the cinematic action of George Miller’s Mad Max Saga. But don’t be fooled into thinking you're in for mindless action because beneath the chaos that is occupied Victoria this is a story of a father and son that is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
“Jess flinched at the very mention. Outrider. Rare. Highly trained. All combat experienced, with multiple tours. Extremely high IQs. Their capabilities could turn battles. Storms. Earthquakes. Tactical nukes. Outriders were the most elite troops AUKUS ever created, and they’d been hunted since the occupation began in 2029.”
Background: When you are asked to be the Reading Officer of Brothers and Books you get some pretty nifty perks, such as receiving Advanced Reader Copies of books. Thank you Mark Wales and his team at Pan Macmillan Australia for providing me with a copy of Outrider for review.
Lessons: Can we learn from a Fiction in the same way that we can learn lessons from Non-Fiction. Absolutely.
“What if there’s no hope?”
“There’s always hope. There’s always a way,” said Harry.
“That’s the truth,” said Jack.
The theme of Hope is central to this book. Hope has the profound ability to inspire, motivate and sustain individuals through challenges and adversity. Jack Dunne harnesses and models this Hope to his young son throughout the book and we can see the positive effects this has on the 12 year old boy who has known nothing but war.
Conclusions: Mark has created a vast and interesting new world for his creation Jack Dunne to play in. This story brings the visceral writing of Matthew Reilly together with the cinematic action of George Miller’s Mad Max Saga. But don’t be fooled into thinking you're in for mindless action because beneath the chaos that is occupied Victoria this is a story of a father and son that is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Outrider
Mark Wales