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Bet Your Life
Bet Your Life
Oct 5, 2024 6:10 PM

Author:Jane Casey

Bet Your Life

Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?

As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would do whatever it took to abuse them, from lying and blackmail to spiking drinks. Could a group of vengeful victims be behind his attack? Or is there someone else with a grudge against Seb and who will stop at nothing to silence him?

Reviews

Like a good brie, you feel Hermelin will only improve with age.

—— Alex O'Connell , The Times

Grey's work is intricate and stylish, the images often as wordy as the narrative itself.

—— Lorna Bradbury , The Daily Telegraph

Grey's pictures are nostalgic, comic, decorative and dramatically composed, and invite budding detectives to pay attention.

—— Nicolette Jones , The Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week

It's rare to find such a talented illustrator who can tell a gripping, original tale so effortlessly.

—— The Times, Children's Book of the Week

Fans of Grey's work will once again relish the hectic pace of her storytelling, its humour, its intertextual allusions, its typographical playfulness and its general layout.

—— Robert Dunbar , Irish Times

Mini Grey's extra details and clues in her artwork are always so entertaining and hopefully this is just the beginning for this charming and astute mouse and his detecting friend Emily.

—— The Guardian

It's full of hilarious tiny details, which our sharp-eyed hero - and clever parents and children - can spot to solve the mysteries.

—— The Oxford Times

This is picture book storytelling at its best. Text and illustration perfectly integrated so that the eye moves easily across the page and the attention is held. Every page is carefully designed allowing different perspectives, creating excitement and movement through the juxtaposition of whole page and split page spreads as well as techniques adopted from graphic novel or film. There are not enough picture books that can reach older children. This is one - and it is a delight.

—— Books for Keeps

This is an utterly delightful book, packed with quirky text and illustrations and reall unusual.

—— Parents in Touch

How can you not want to read this book over and over again? How can you not want to share it with everyone you meet?

—— Xena's Mom , Librarian's Quest

Mini Grey is as skilful as ever as she unravels a complex, tragic and very funny story through action-packed illustrations, captions and speech bubbles.

—— Guardian Review

A gentle, entertaining story.

—— Daily Mail

A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year—and it's an "Outstanding Merit" title!

—— Bank Street College of Education , The Best Children's Books of the Year, 2015 Edition

I found this to be a fast-paced book... the beauty of this book is that there is a glossary at the end (which is really good). There are also notes about poisons...apparel and a 'Fact Behind the Fiction' section which I really appreciated. It's nice when an author takes the time to let you in on a part of their research process and distinguishes things that could be either real or fake. All-in-all, I really liked this book.

—— BLC Library blog

The historical accuracy is amazing and you'll really feel that you're living the mystery with Grace.

—— Newcastle Upon Tyne Evening Chronicle

Exciting and adventurous

—— Aquila
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