- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic Press; First Edition edition (17 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439978386
- ISBN-13: 978-0439978385
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 364,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The sequel to Susan Price's imaginative tour de force, The Sterkarm Handshake. The Time Tube is back on-line, and FUP are back in the sixteenth century, out for all they can get from the moronic peasant-folk, the Sterkarms. The moronic peasant-folk who destroyed all their plans and invaded the twenty-first century last time around...But this time FUP have everything under control. This is a whole new bunch of Sterkarms, and they're not going to get out of hand. After all, this time they have the ultimate weapon - love. But do the Sterkarms see love quite the same way? Just how much faith can you put in a Sterkarm Kiss?
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I wondered how Susan Price would manage to come up with a sequel to The Sterkham Handshake. The ending had seemed pretty final. But she has done it with an idea which once again is original and grips the imagination from the outset.
Andrea is again in Sterkharm country but this time at a slightly different time. The Sterkhams are all there but a bit diffferent, they don't know her and she has to rebuild her relationships all over again. Hard work when the shorthand you thought you had with people is not there. Add that to their innate suspicion of "other" and you know the story is going to be as unpredictable as the Sterkharms.
The new book is definitely on a par with the first one, some of the twists and turns of the plot are breathtaking. The world that has been imagined here is a very real one where people are very human, I sat there willing Andrea on, while knowing that good doesn't necessarily win in the world of the reivers...
My only complaint is that we will now have to wait a while for a third volume. There will be one won't there ??
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is an excellent sequel to A Sterkarm Handshake. I didn't realize that Sterkarm Handshake might have a sequel--I had imagined Andrea and Per pining away, apart forever. But then I checked Amazon.co.uk for Susan Price books and was very pleased to see that a second book was available.
A Sterkarm Kiss does not disappoint. Andrea faces even greater challenges than she did in the first book, including her affection for the very different Per. The secondary characters are well developed too, and the Joan Grannam subplot was quite surprising. I am a young adult librarian, and I wish more Susan Price books would be released in the U.S so that I could add them to our collection.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Much welcomed, the long awaited sequel to The Sterkarm Handshake. The atmosphere, tensions and vivd descriptions are just as compelling as the first novel. However, be aware that if you bought the first book for an able but younger child to read (11 - 14 years), the sequel has far more adult content. I personally would not reccommend it for anyone under 15. I fell that it is a shame that Susan Price has written a sequel that belongs in the adult section. As an adult, though, it is certainly a cracking read!
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Disappointing sequel
Having quite enjoyed 'The Sterkarm Handshake' I looked forward to the sequel, but was very disappointed. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lizzy D
Nice to be back, but what exactly are we doing?
I was really looking forward to this sequel and found it an entertaining read, but it doesn't compare all that well to the first volume. Read more
Published on 24 May 2010 by R. A. Williams
Slitting the throat of a 15-year old girl?
So whose bright idea was it to publish a book for children with this kind of violence in it? Well, Scholastic Children's Books, of course. Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by mad_mushroom
cracking good read
The first book was fabulous and this sequel is every bit as good - ends on a cliffhanger though and it wou;d be nice to know when the next book will be coming out. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2009 by nogginthenog
brilliant
Susan Price has written a beautiful follow up to The Sterkarm Handshake. Marvellous, heart stopping, breathtaking, totally absorbing. Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2003 by A. Reader
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