The 2nd book in the S.T.A.G.S story, this offering from Bennett is another engrossing read!
D.O.G.S picks up pretty much the exact place that S.T.A.G.S left off. Greer MacDonald is getting over the trauma of having been made into a hunted animal by her former crush (and now dead) school mate Henry.
Now well into her A-Level studies in the very presitgious private school, she has been tasked with directing a play that has to pre-date the 1600's. So the immediate assumption would be some version of Shakespeare right? However a mysterious person intervenes and slides the first act of a play that was banned during Elizabeth I reign into her room one evening - in fact all known copies were burnt. The play is called the Isle of Dogs.
Every Sunday Greer has a new act pushed under her door. But who would send a very rare and valuable play to a school girl? And why are they so desperate to hear these banished words?
You don't need to have read S.T.A.G.S to enjoy this book, but there are quite a few references to it which enrich the story even further. Enough is explained however for the reader to understand the huge deal that returning to Longcross is for Greer.
I found this very different offering to the first installment (to what will be a trilogy). This is much more of a thinker than an action based book. The research that has been put into the background of the (real) Isle of Dogs is brilliant and taught me a thing or 2!
I would like to thank Readers First and Hot Key Books for a copy of this book in exchange for a review.
D.O.G.S picks up pretty much the exact place that S.T.A.G.S left off. Greer MacDonald is getting over the trauma of having been made into a hunted animal by her former crush (and now dead) school mate Henry.
Now well into her A-Level studies in the very presitgious private school, she has been tasked with directing a play that has to pre-date the 1600's. So the immediate assumption would be some version of Shakespeare right? However a mysterious person intervenes and slides the first act of a play that was banned during Elizabeth I reign into her room one evening - in fact all known copies were burnt. The play is called the Isle of Dogs.
Every Sunday Greer has a new act pushed under her door. But who would send a very rare and valuable play to a school girl? And why are they so desperate to hear these banished words?
You don't need to have read S.T.A.G.S to enjoy this book, but there are quite a few references to it which enrich the story even further. Enough is explained however for the reader to understand the huge deal that returning to Longcross is for Greer.
I found this very different offering to the first installment (to what will be a trilogy). This is much more of a thinker than an action based book. The research that has been put into the background of the (real) Isle of Dogs is brilliant and taught me a thing or 2!
I would like to thank Readers First and Hot Key Books for a copy of this book in exchange for a review.