Young Adult Book Reviews

Name: Stephen Leitch
30 October 2024;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Set in small-town America, Old Wounds is a creepy, thrilling and thought-provoking novel following trans teens Erin and Max who are trying to get to California. Erin isn't quite sure why she's here as she's not spoken to Max in the two years since they broke up, but Max needs...

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Name: Lorraine ansell
29 October 2024;

Genre: Horror

Charley is starting over in a new boarding school on a remote island. Luckily her roommate shares her love of horror movies, and they bond over Slasher Saturday movie nights. Tormented by the popular and rich girls, and trying to reinvent her shady past, things take a rapid turn for the worse...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 October 2024;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Haunted by her own cyberbullying incident years ago, aspiring ghosthunter Cara is determined to throw off her social outcast status by proving ghosts exist via her YouTube channel, Caranormal Activity.  Stumbling across the spirit of Aiden, a popular student who lost his life a year ago, she s...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
28 October 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Let's Split Up is a fun (and frightening!) teen slasher story with a knowing nod to classic eighties and nineties horror. Think Goosebumps and Scream with a bit of Mike Myers thrown in! Shelley and Brad are the poster couple at school – the cheerleader and Jock about to...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
25 October 2024;

Genre: Horror

Now, Conjurers is an enjoyable read, part horror fantasy, part relatable older teen reality, incorporating mystery and crime into its 400+ thrilling pages. The quirky title, strap line ('welcome to the coven') and the perspective of the cover illustration (by Sam Schechter) of...

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Name: Ophelia McCluskey Gahan
24 October 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Our Wicked Histories is a delightfully sinister read that truly appealed to my love of horror and my interest in crime;  this novel also allowed me to take a peak of a classic Irish folktale. When Meg gets a scholarship that could offer her more than she ever thought po...

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Name: Maddalena Pretto
23 October 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Aria is a girl who lives with her family in a strange planet called Terros, during a class experiment she discovers that she has human DNA. Since she was very little she has known that her parents think that humans are bad people. One day she is sent to Earth to spread a virus that could kill...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
22 October 2024;

Genre: Myths & Legends

When Ben and his family are forced through economic circumstances to move from the city to a remote bit of countryside, what he does not expect is the magic that is lurking all around. Ben starts having dreams and is stalked by crows and an ever-increasing sense of danger and menace. As he unc...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
18 October 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Superfans have waited a long time for a new novel from author, Jandy Nelson, and it does not disappoint. When The World Tips Over is a beautifully crafted story, full of magical realism. It is written from different perspectives and uses alternative formats, including excerpts...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
17 October 2024;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Kit and her little sister, Libby, find themselves with their mother on a winter holiday on the Welsh coast. When Libby vanishes, not even their mother can remember her - it is as if she has been erased from the world. Then Kit meets Story, a local boy, who clearly remembers Libby and, determin...

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