Trinity Schools Book Award The highly coveted TSBA book awards is a prize which is a target for many in the world of writers. I had the prestigious honour to attend this most grand of occasions, and the formality was not spoiled at all by a certain somebody playing Brawl Stars the whole journey and everyone else being slow paced. The evening started off in a roundabout sort of way, making introductions, small talk and meeting two of the amazing former librarians of the college, Ms McGuinness and Ms O’Connor. (Year eights will know them.) the eight books in the running were as follows: Bite Risk , The Magic Fish , Wild Song, Leila and the Blue Fox , A Flash of Fireflies, Jodie, Dogs of the Deadlands and last but not least, Midwinter Burning .The winning book was (insert drum roll here) Bite Risk by S.J.Wills!
Before I go any further, I need to tell you about Bite Risk . (I don’t need to but I told the author that I would, and she knows where I live so…) Bite Risk is an amazing book about werewolves where the main character lives in an ordinary town where all the adults turn into werewolves once a month. Didn’t see that coming, did ya? The main character is called Sel. He is 14 and carries a large tranquilliser gun to knock out werewolves. The adults know they turn into werewolves, and they lock themselves in cages the whole night to stop themselves from attacking. However, a mysterious force is unlocking their ages causing them to run free and when it forces Sel to kill one of his friends, it gets personal. It is an amazingly fun read and even if you think you don’t like reading, read this.
I got to meet the author afterwards and grabbed a quick word with her for the Despatch:
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