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Kill All Enemies Blog Tour

Hey everyone, and today is my stop on the Kill All Enemies by Melvin Burgess blog tour! Yay! I have my first author Q&A session to share with you, which I'm super excited about, and his answers are awesome, in my opinion :) So here they are! ____________________ Bella: Hi Melvin, welcome to Cheezyfeet Books! Tell us about Kill All Enemies in less than 20 words. Melvin: It follows three teenagers in deep trouble, who turn out to be heroes in other areas of their lives. B: What inspired you to write Kill All Enemies? M: We’re always hearing abut bad kids – the kind who get excluded from school, get into fights – maybe the kind of kids who were out in the recent riots. I wanted to try and find out what was going inside their heads, so I went out to interview them. I was as amazed as any9one when I found out that so many of them were real heroes. B: Could you tell us a little about what it was like to go to the PRUs to research for Kill All Enemies? M: Really inte...

Book Review: Kill All Enemies by Melvin Burgess

Title:  Kill All Enemies Author:  Melvin Burgess Series: N/A Pages:  271 Publisher:  Penguin Books Date of Publication:  1st September 2011 Source:  Publisher Synopsis from Goodreads: Everyone says fourteen-year-old Billie is nothing but trouble. A fighter. A danger to her family and friends. But her care worker sees someone different. Her classmate Rob is big, strong; he can take care of himself and his brother. But his violent stepdad sees someone to humiliate. And Chris is struggling at school; he just doesn't want to be there. But his dad sees a useless no-hoper. Billie, Rob and Chris each have a story to tell. But there are two sides to every story, and the question is ...who do you believe? My Thoughts: I wasn't sure what I was going to think about Kill All Enemies before I read it. On the one hand, it sounded really interesting and I was curious to find out about what the 'troublesome' kids thought when they were fighting, or runnin...