A stunningly poignant novel. 
 "I remember love. It's what I have to keep on reminding myself. It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love." 
 Marchetta weaves two stories decades apart together in such an impressive way! We have the story that Hannah has written about five teenagers who lived on the Jellicoe Road, they were each others family and all that mattered, and how they dreamed of getting out of Jellicoe Road. How fate had other plans. 
 The main story is about Taylor, a seventeen year old who is now the leader of the Jellicoe kids in the territory wars. Taylor is just trying to survive. Abandoned at a 7/11 by her mother when she was 11, she doesn't have many aspirations for herself beyond surviving day to day. 
 She's lost. And this is the complicated and beautifully wonderful story of how she finds herself. 
 "As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine." 
 "Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?" 
 "Be careful what you wish for," he says with quiet menace, "because I'm about this close to telling you to get the fuck out of my life." 
 I stare at him. 
 "What do you want from me?" he asks. 
 What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. 
 More." 
 As always, Marchetta has created an entire cast of characters that you will fall in love with. Her side characters are tenacious and crucial to the story, hardly feeling like side characters at all. 
 And of course, the writing was gorgeous. 
 Over all a really memorable story that I would recommend to anyone! 
 I will definitely be reading it again, I think things will stand out even more then. 
 "And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him." 
 "And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life."