Young Adult Book Reviews

Name: Ruth Cornish
21 June 2024;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

This fantastic book is a fun, exciting take on the superhero genre, perfect for a YA audience and older secondary school students. The Love Interest offers action from the start with the main characters Jenna and brand new superhero Blaze meeting as a result of a potentially d...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
20 June 2024;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Cinderella is Dead, the clever and compelling feminist reinvention of the classic fairytale, was an instant hit. In this exciting new reimagining, Sleep Like Death, BookTok sensation Bayron turns her attention to another classic fairyta...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
18 June 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Cass leads a sheltered life living on her family farm, working hard with her older sister Mary but also able to roam free and enjoy the countryside. Soon it is time for her sister to be married to a man chosen by their father, something Cass fears for herself, and on the morning of the wedding...

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Name: Ellie Age 12
07 June 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

This book has got me hooked on the Girl, Missing series. Me and my friend exchange books a lot as we have similar taste in books and this book is the one we talk about the most.  Love this book - can't wait to get more books from Sophie McKenzie.

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Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2024;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Helen Comerford's debut novel The Love Interest is set in 2024 and provides us with a unique take on the superhero genre. I found myself hooked from the very first page. The dystopian world where some people have superpowers and there are some mutant EV creatures is very well...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
03 June 2024;

Genre: Personal Growth

18 year old Noor's life is turned upside down when her father walks out of their Chicago home unexpectedly to start a new life in London. Distraught, her mother moves Noor and her younger sister to the tiny town of Bayberry, where Noor becomes the Muslim new girl in an almost exclusively white...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
30 May 2024;

Genre: Dystopian

Sharada Keat's debut dystopian YA novel These Stolen Lives is a complex narrative about living in a world following the invasion of the tyrannical Skol people. Friends and 'repayers' Mora, a Crozoni, and Kit, a Makaian, toil to pay for the first pre-colonised years of their li...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
22 May 2024;

Genre: Bereavement

Mab has found Elk. Elk didn't know she needed finding, but now she wouldn't have it any other way. In the 'free-range' Mab, she has gained a new best friend and a whole new perspective on life. Cocooned by love, friendship and family, Elk's existence, even allowing for the pains and problems o...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
22 May 2024;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

All the Hidden Monsters is a perfect, twisty, supernatural thriller that you simply won't be able to put down. Oren works for the Arcanum, a warlock institution that upholds law and order in the supernatural world. Werewolf Sage is an aspiring detective, perpetually rejected b...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
14 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Not Like Other Girls is not quite like other YA thrillers. It skilfully combines a complex, tense and twisty mystery with a fake-dating romance while asking important questions about toxic friendship, assault and rape culture in a way which would be an achievement for...

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