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Beware, this teacher has a nasty bite!
Dai and Bear are secret members of a knightly order, defeating the terrible monsters that lurk around the toilet block. Well, they will be if they ever graduate from pages to knights! Right now they are training hard in a secret location, only emerging for boring old school. But what if that angelic looking teacher isn't as sweet as she looks? And the headmaster smells of bananas and old socks ... isn't that an ogre scent? Adventure really is just down the hallway.
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Book 2 of the Shadowalker fantasy series.
I'm not dead ...
My first thought when I open to my eyes to the brilliant white room at Zepail and the feeling like life has been dragged from my bones. It probably has, because the last thing I remember is black fire and pain, and Zanar's healing strands fragmenting as Dad shot death from his hands.
"I'm not dead," I say, to the boy collapsed beside me on the floor. "Early days yet." Zanar lifts his head to survey the door-less room. "That's part one of our plan achieved." |
Locked in a room sealed with magic and on trial for murder Uriel is hoping for justice, but when the Lightspeakers of Meldin name her Abomination she is forced to run, blinking through space to the forest. With Zanar, disowned Heir to the World; the dragons who are her relatives; and the newly made Lord of Deep Forest, she might be safe.
But Uriel's father is the Death Lord, and when he threatens her friends, she comes out of hiding. With a psychotic pet dragon, a half-broken healer and an ability to move through death, Uriel's about to face down her dad, and the winged monsters who stand behind him.
The odds aren't good.
But Uriel's father is the Death Lord, and when he threatens her friends, she comes out of hiding. With a psychotic pet dragon, a half-broken healer and an ability to move through death, Uriel's about to face down her dad, and the winged monsters who stand behind him.
The odds aren't good.
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Life sucks for Morgan Lohdi, otherwise known as Pig.
Used as the school punching bag he's bruised and harassed and doesn't have anything resembling a friend. Maybe it would be OK if he could keep his mouth shut. But Morgan has a sarcastic tongue that others don't find funny.
The there's Lissa, the girl he thought could be his friend. Who might even have been something more- if the bullies hadn't made her turn her back. When the Art room burns down and Morgan's one safe haven disappears, things get much worse and he's determined to finally make it stop. But will learning to fight back work? Or is it possible to turn the other cheek? Just maybe, the answers will come from an unlikely source. Otherwise known as Pig is a story about bullying, the planet sized blind spots of adults, and learning to accept help. |
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Praise for Otherwise Known as Pig
"This book stayed with me long after I had finished it. It was hard to forget how powerless I felt at being unable stop the relentless bullying that Pig was subjected to. A powerful story about bullies and being bullied." 5 Stars, Pick of the Year 2019.
- Sue Mauger, GLAMAdelaide
"This novel is full of characters that evoke real emotions. When the consequences finally catch up, the sense of satisfaction that filled me was overwhelming."
- Raisa, age 15
"Otherwise Known as Pig is essential reading for parents, teachers, administrators and young people. The book is an engrossing read, and Tilly hopes that it will inspire people to be proactive about bullying and also encourage the targets to reach out for help."
- Lezly Herbert, OUTinPerth.
"This book is passionate and gritty, and while it is dealing with a very difficult subject matter, I adored this book, and it set my sense of social justice on fire."
- Ellie King
- Sue Mauger, GLAMAdelaide
"This novel is full of characters that evoke real emotions. When the consequences finally catch up, the sense of satisfaction that filled me was overwhelming."
- Raisa, age 15
"Otherwise Known as Pig is essential reading for parents, teachers, administrators and young people. The book is an engrossing read, and Tilly hopes that it will inspire people to be proactive about bullying and also encourage the targets to reach out for help."
- Lezly Herbert, OUTinPerth.
"This book is passionate and gritty, and while it is dealing with a very difficult subject matter, I adored this book, and it set my sense of social justice on fire."
- Ellie King
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There's a dragon watching me when I wake up ...
As the Death Lord's daughter, seventeen-year old Uriel is comfortable walking the lavender-scented tunnels of death. She's not pleased to be dragged back to the living realm of Meldin. It's a world of laser-edged swords and shape-changing dragons, where the Lord of the world has sworn to kill her father.
Uriel needs a place to hide and, with a fortune-telling dragon, four scrying cards she drew in death, and the son of her father's enemy, she believes she's found one. Until the rumours start ... |
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Praise for Shadowalker
Shadowalker is an engrossing fantasy you’ll want to read in a single sitting—I know I did.
After waking in Meldin with only a hazy memory and in world-altering pain, Uriel, daughter of the Death Lord, is in one of the most dangerous situations of her life. With her previous life lost, she is a victim to heraldic knowledge she can hardly handle. Abandoned on her uncle’s doorstep, she discovers half her family and most of Meldin want her father dead. It is imperative her identity is hidden from the Lord of the World – but how will that play out when the only one who can heal her is the Lord of the World’s son, Zanar? With Zanar’s help, Uriel escapes to Quislayn, one of the independent houses where she is a fosterling with her cousin Caraid.
In the process of healing Uriel, Zanar and Uriel’s closeness becomes a point of contention among the fosterlings. Caraid’s jealousy grows as she is forced to share her boyfriend with a cousin she doesn’t know or like.
Throughout the novel Uriel’s ignorance is the reader’s ignorance, together we discover this new world and how to navigate it. Meldin society often seems similar to being at court in medieval times, in particular among the fosterlings who squabble over social standing. Taking from Caraid’s lead, the fosterlings are suspicious of Uriel, not least because of her strange fits.
Shadowalker follows Uriel’s character as she uncovers more about her past, her father, and Meldin’s bloody history through the trauma of her peers. We see her grow up, taking the world of Meldin in her stride while forming bonds with her fellow fosterlings – bonds which may keep her safe.
Tilly has crafted the novel well, anticipating and the reader’s questions and allowing Uriel to find the answers. The book is well written and complimented by dragons, shape-shifters and death-magic – everything my younger self would have cherished. This book is perfect for fantasy lovers aged twelve and up.
3.5/5 stars
Kayla Gaskell, TULPAMAGAZINE
After waking in Meldin with only a hazy memory and in world-altering pain, Uriel, daughter of the Death Lord, is in one of the most dangerous situations of her life. With her previous life lost, she is a victim to heraldic knowledge she can hardly handle. Abandoned on her uncle’s doorstep, she discovers half her family and most of Meldin want her father dead. It is imperative her identity is hidden from the Lord of the World – but how will that play out when the only one who can heal her is the Lord of the World’s son, Zanar? With Zanar’s help, Uriel escapes to Quislayn, one of the independent houses where she is a fosterling with her cousin Caraid.
In the process of healing Uriel, Zanar and Uriel’s closeness becomes a point of contention among the fosterlings. Caraid’s jealousy grows as she is forced to share her boyfriend with a cousin she doesn’t know or like.
Throughout the novel Uriel’s ignorance is the reader’s ignorance, together we discover this new world and how to navigate it. Meldin society often seems similar to being at court in medieval times, in particular among the fosterlings who squabble over social standing. Taking from Caraid’s lead, the fosterlings are suspicious of Uriel, not least because of her strange fits.
Shadowalker follows Uriel’s character as she uncovers more about her past, her father, and Meldin’s bloody history through the trauma of her peers. We see her grow up, taking the world of Meldin in her stride while forming bonds with her fellow fosterlings – bonds which may keep her safe.
Tilly has crafted the novel well, anticipating and the reader’s questions and allowing Uriel to find the answers. The book is well written and complimented by dragons, shape-shifters and death-magic – everything my younger self would have cherished. This book is perfect for fantasy lovers aged twelve and up.
3.5/5 stars
Kayla Gaskell, TULPAMAGAZINE
