

Velocity
Author: Chris Wooding
Narrator: Brittany Pressley
Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Published: 02/28/2017
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Sports
Author: Chris Wooding
Narrator: Brittany Pressley
Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Published: 02/28/2017
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Sports
Chris Wooding is a full time, award-winning novelist, a YA novelist, and a professional script writer for film and TV. He has travelled extensively, plays bass and guitar (and has recorded several albums) and his novels have been published all over the world. He has penned the Braided Path trilogy, a standalone novel (The Fade) and the Tales of the Ketty Jay series for Gollancz, all of which were critical and commercial successes. Chris Wooding lives in Kent, and you can learn more at www.chriswooding.com.
With an almost-manic-joy bubbling beneath the determined calm needed for navigation, Velocity takes off; tearing through teeth-rattling turns and bone-jarring twists. The tale of the unprecedented quick-track that takes Cassica and Shiara from racing the “unofficial boondocks circuit” to a qualifier......more
Passes the Bechdel test with flying colors!!!!......more
Screw you, Wooding. Screw you real hard. For you have just given me a book with the two most believable characters I have had the fortune of meeting. The plot was predictable, and in a true Wooding style there was a nice twist at the end that, although not impossible, was a little hard to predict; t......more
This would have been an amazing opportunity to for an awesome queer story and certainly seemed like it might be in the beginning but they didn't go for it. I spent half the book thinking one of the girls had a crush on the other before they pulled a random racer over to become her crush. Ugh. This i......more
Not gonna lie, based on the cover of my edition I assumed it was going to be a much more queer story. Instead it was a perfectly acceptable dystopia with no mentions of race or sexuality. Not a bad story at all, engaging action, just come to expect better from stories I read.......more
Praise for The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray :*"An imaginative tour de force." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review*"Eerie and exhilarating. -- School Library Journal, starred review*"Readers will get finger cramps from rapidly turning the pages of Wooding's gripping tale." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewPraise for Poison:*"A compelling read. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Each scene of danger sings with tension. Lovers of adventure, horror, and suspense should keep an eye on this talented author." -- Horn Book MagazinePraise for Storm Thief:*"This stunning work of speculative fiction will appeal to Wooding's fans and earn him new ones." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewPraise for Silver:*"Wooding has morphed a traditional English boarding school story... into a horror/survival story that would make William Golding and Gary Paulsen envious... Carve out enough time to read Silver in a single sitting. You'll need it." -- Booklist, starred review