Review: Love-shy by Lili Wilkinson — Readings Books

Following in the footsteps of her last book, A Pocketful of Eyes, Wilkinson brings back the girl detective in the character of Penny Drummond.

Desperate to become a prize-winning journalist, Penny uses her time at her school paper to hone her journalistic talents. While wanting to come up with the perfect article, Penny stumbles upon a website left open on one of the school computers; Loveshyforum.com, which someone on her school has been posting on. Realising she has the perfect base for her article, Penny puts her detective skills into overdrive and begins a search for the author of not only these posts but also a blog that has the writings of one desperate and confused young man looking for love.

Once again Wilkinson has created a strong female character who is inquisitive, ambitious and interesting, as well as a teenager who is still trying to work out life while dealing with just being a teenager. This book, about finding oneself, finding love and acceptance, is well written and compelling. Wilkinson is a great writer for young women.

Katherine Dretzke is from Readings Hawthorn