Showing posts with label Martyn Bedford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martyn Bedford. Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Flip by Martyn Bedford



Flip by Martyn Bedford has a very simple, yet very appealing premise: What would you do if you woke up in the body of someone else?

The (fantastic) jacket says it even punchier: “Ever wake up in someone else’s body?”

But just because the premise is simple, doesn’t mean that any of the solutions are. When Alex wakes up in a strange bedroom, a strange house (complete with another mother, someone else’s sister) he thinks he is being punked. Wouldn’t you? After all, Alex has never heard of Phillip. But then he catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror and realises that things are much more like the Twilight Zone.

This is a gripping read that teens would love. It was one of those books where I kept loosing track of time while I was reading it, looking up every now and then to find an hour or more had disappeared.