Young Adult Book Reviews

Name: Clare Wilkins
14 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

With graduation looming and the prospect of leaving home provoking both fear and excitement, school president and all round Grade A student Grace Barbour decides a day of skipping school is just the tonic she and her friends need. The only problems being the schism between her...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
10 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Ximena Reale is determined to become a Cazadoro at La Academia de los Cazadores, but despite being a star student, her prospects are tarnished by her heritage. Five years ago, her parents were executed for being pirates and now her older sister's behaviour is casting a shadow on Ximena's risin...

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Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

The Rose Bargain is a thrilling and atmospheric dark fantasy set in 1848 England, where high society's yearly tradition of bargaining with an immortal fae Queen takes a sinister twist. This captivating novel explores themes of ambition, sacrific...

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Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

364 days, that's how long Dania has been in a hell-hole of a prison for a crime she didn't commit. She is counting down her days until she can exact revenge on Mazin, the boy responsible for her downfall, the boy she once loved - and still can't forget. However, first she has to escape and tha...

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Name: Clair Bossons
10 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

While We're Young is a contemporary road-trip romance, inspired by the classic 80s film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Grace plans to skip school with her best friend Isa and Isa's ex-boyfriend, Everett. The three friends used to be inseparable but since Everett ra...

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Name: Clair Bossons
10 March 2025;

Genre: Dystopian

Shortlisted for The Carnegie Award 2025 and the UKLA Book Award, The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss is a stunning and thought-provoking dystopian novel. It is set in the near future, where London is teetering on the edge of collapse. Amid a refugee cr...

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Name: Lorraine ansell
07 March 2025;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Sariyah is not an ordinary teenager; her special gift means she senses what a person needs. Overwhelmed by the noise this creates, she tries to fulfil the requests, one day with devastating and unpredictable consequences. Shortly after one of her best friends disappears and a frantic search be...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
07 March 2025;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Starting the new school year has been a challenge for Kara. Her best friend, Eden, has a new boyfriend and has completely cut her off, leaving her friendless. When the year 'freak', Romilly, comes to her aid, Kara finds herself drawn into a friendship which she is unsure about and when unsettl...

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Name: Sam
07 March 2025;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

In All Better Now, a virus is spreading, but this one is different: first there's a fever, and then utter contentment. Those that survive the Crown Royale virus find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings that used to weigh them down are gone. This all soun...

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Name: Lorraine ansell
25 February 2025;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

A new virus infects people across the world, but survivors are left feeling total contentment, devoid of any want or desire. When consumers stop spending money and the world’s richest people give their fortunes away, the search for a cure begins. Three very different teenagers find their lives...

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