Inside it is some sort of small device that looks a lot like a hearing aid. Tella finds a blue box in her room – it seems to have appeared out of nowhere. Why? Well could you imagine being about 16 and living without any technology? Away from all your friends? Not being able to contact them. Tella and her family have lived there for about a year and Tella hates it. They moved because her Mum thought the countryside air would help her brother live a little longer or even (and there is very, very, little chance of this) surviving. She has no access to technology, as she now lives well away from the city she used to live in (where her friends are and where she used to be able to connect to the Internet). Tella lives in the middle of nowhere in modern day America. Her brother has cancer and it’s getting worse. The story is about a girl called Tella, who (I don’t know if it says this in the book) I am pretty sure is 16 years old. I know that three books is a trilogy, but what is two books? If Victoria Scott writes a third book I will be happy to buy and read it. I’ve read the second book in the series as well (which is called ‘Salt and Stone’) and I wish there was a third one! To be honest, I don’t even know if you can call two books a series. I put it down over four months ago and I can remember nearly everything in it (and I’ve read a lot of books since then, so there are a lot of different stories going through my head for this one to compete with. But now I know that this is an amazing book and it was worth reading twice. Why? Because the first time I read it, I was about ten years old, so I didn’t really understand the meaning, concept or what was even going on. After reading it a second time, I can happily and honestly say, it’s gotten better.

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