I don't know about everyone loving Stray: from the Goodreads reviews it seems to me that either people like Cass's voice and the way she tells her story, or they don't - and so there's no middle ground, heh ^^. The thing is, of course, that the whole world of interaction opens up as soon as she meets other people, but those first 100 pages in the book don't have them in it, true enough.
It is the only diary novel (formerly an online blog entry, per day, from what Andrea said at Loncon) she has written, so any other Höst book will not have that hurdle for you.
If you liked the idea of Australian female teenager SF, you might like her only other version of it so far, And All the Stars - which was nominated for the Cybils and in two categories (SF and YA) for the Aurealis Award in the year it came out.
Her other books are fantasy with older heroines, although Hunting is probably Fantasy NA.
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It is the only diary novel (formerly an online blog entry, per day, from what Andrea said at Loncon) she has written, so any other Höst book will not have that hurdle for you.
If you liked the idea of Australian female teenager SF, you might like her only other version of it so far, And All the Stars - which was nominated for the Cybils and in two categories (SF and YA) for the Aurealis Award in the year it came out.
Her other books are fantasy with older heroines, although Hunting is probably Fantasy NA.