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Category: Young Adult
Shortlisted for the 2017 Aurealis Awards
''The Undercurrentis gripping and action-packed...Paula Weston has created an ambitious thrilled that presents us with an alarming look at Australia''s near future and where our technological advances could be taking us.'' Readings
Eighteen-year-old Julianne De
Shortlisted for the 2017 Aurealis Awards
''The Undercurrentis gripping and action-packed...Paula Weston has created an ambitious thrilled that presents us with an alarming look at Australia''s near future and where our technological advances could be taking us.'' Readings
Eighteen-year-old Julianne De Marchi is different. As in: she has an electrical undercurrent beneath her skin that stings and surges like a live wire. She can use it--to spark a fire, maybe even end a life--but she doesn''t understand what it is. And she can barely control it, especially when she''s anxious.
Ryan Walsh was on track for a stellar football career when his knee blew out. Now he''s a soldier--part of an experimental privatised military unit that has identified Jules De Marchi as a threat. Is it because of the weird undercurrent she''s tried so hard to hide? Or because of her mother Angie''s history as an activist against bio-engineering and big business?
It''s no coincidence that Ryan and Jules are in the same place at the same time--he''s under orders to follow her, after all. But then an explosive attack on a city building by an unknown enemy throws them together in the most violent and unexpected way.
Paula Weston, author of the much-admired Rephaimseries, returns with a standalone work: a futuristic thriller that is only slightly futuristic--but utterly and undeniably thrilling. Great writing, heart-burning characters, probing questions about where technology is taking us--and a plot that zips and zings like an electrical current itself. This is a great young-adult writer at the peak of her powers.
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