Origins: Book Three in the Missing Link Trilogy (Welsh Edition) [Hardcover]

Kate Thompson (Author)

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Series: Missing Link Trilogy | Publication Date: October 30, 2007

All Nessa knew was that Cats and Dogs were different.
Always had been. Always would be.
 
Generations in the future, our world has been changed irrevocably by an unspeakable disaster. In this bleak landscape a cat named Nessa has been exiled from her community during a violent outbreak with a group of Dogs. But when Nessa meets a fellow exile, a Dog named Farral, these unlikely companions set off to uncover the truth about their ancestry. Could Cats and Dogs have more in common than they have been taught to believe? Award-winning author Kate Thompson has crafted a brilliant page-turner in which readers will ultimately discover the secrets of a society's origins and the truth about what really happened in a genetic lab called Fourth World.

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KATE THOMPSON lives in Ireland, where she writes novels for children and young adults. She has been awarded the Bisto Book of the Year Award by Children's Books Ireland four times as well as the Whitbread award for her novel, The New Policeman.
www.katethompson.info

 

 

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition (October 30, 2007)
• Language: Welsh
• ISBN-10: 1582346526
• ISBN-13: 978-1582346526
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,318,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well Done!, January 9, 2011

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This review is from: Origins: Book Three in the Missing Link Trilogy (Welsh Edition) (Hardcover)

I read the first two books and enjoyed them very much.
I was a bit put off at first when I started this one. I was expecting to read more about Christie and Tina and the rest of the folks in book 3. When Origins started talking about cats and dogs as the main characters, I wondered if I would really enjoy the story.
The author blended the stories well. Telling us about the cats and dogs of the future while reading from Christie's diary was blended well.
I hope that she doesn't stop with just these 3 books. The world that Kate has built here could very easily support many more stories.
I suppose I would have like to have seen book 3 be only about Christie and then have her start another trilogy about the cats and dogs of the future.
I'd like to see a book 4 that talks about what Christie and the rest of the Fourth World people did after the events from his diary in book 3.
I want to hear more, more and more about these wonderful characters - both Christie and the cats and dogs of the future.

4.0 out of 5 stars A clever way to end this fantasy trilogy, June 9, 2008

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Lynn Hughes (Bucks County, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Origins: Book Three in the Missing Link Trilogy (Welsh Edition) (Hardcover)

A good novel should be able to stand alone, even when it is part of a series, and this one does as well as any. Most of it is departure from the previous two novels. It is set far in the future, and the narrative gradually reveals a deeply divided human society of "Cats" and "Dogs" and "grunts." The genetically-altered Cats and Dogs live apart and feel superior to each other, but trade and a certain amount of mutual support create a fragile bond that is shattered by mutual misunderstanding and aggression. As the two central characters (one of each, of course) make their way to freedom and safety, they come to know more about each other's cultures and ask big questions about their own assumptions. Contact with "grunts" (non-altered humans) add to their broadening views. Finally, the author ties the novel closely to its two predecessors by bringing Christie's diary into the tale, and we learn about the beginnings of the world of Dogs and Cats. Young readers who have enjoyed the first two novels may be puzzled by the beginning of the tale because it seems unconnected but should feel quite satisfied with the way it all wraps up in the end.