Young Adult Book Reviews

Name: Linda Brown
17 July 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

If you love fairytales with a twist, then this dark, enchanting fantasy debut novel is just for you. The author has melded some of our childhood fairytale stereotypes into her plot, so you get a glimpse of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, a wicked witch and a handsome prince, a love/hate rela...

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Name: Linda Brown
14 July 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Belladonna follows 19-year-old Signa who was orphaned as a baby and who has been raised by a string of guardians, each of whom has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at the gloomy Thorn Grove estate, whose father mourns...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
10 July 2023;

Genre: Dystopian

Alara lives a 'perfect' life in Estrella where everything is tightly controlled and it is mandatory to carry a 'Flip' (Fully Linked Information Platform) so everyone is connected. Feelings of boredom and being 'dulled' are frowned upon, yet Alara often feels disconnected. The skyscraper city i...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
08 July 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Rebel Fire is the second in a trilogy about a fantastical world inhabited by amazing creatures. Friendships are forged as the central characters risk their lives and liberty in a race against time. The author, Ann Sei Lin, has written a book filled with mystical places and mys...

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Name: Linda Brown
07 July 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Rebel Fire is the second book in the Rebel Skies series, and the action picks straight up from where book one ends. This is a rollercoaster read, it has so many plot twist and turns it will leave you breathless and at the last page leaving you...

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Name: Linda Brown
05 July 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

The author of this debut fantasy novel, Rebel Skies, will immerse you, the reader, into a world of, deception, secrets, trust, friendship, floating cities and dangerous, huge paper spirits called Shikigami that threaten the humans that have created them... Kurara's home...

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Name: Clair Bossons
01 July 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Carnival of the Spider is the third in the series following on from Carnival of the Lost and Carnival of the Hunted. It did not disappoint; this book is every bit as well written as the fir...

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Name: Lorraine
26 June 2023;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Immy is the straight girl in her group of friends, even her little sister is out and proud. When she decides to visit her best friend Lili at college, a shocking revelation from her means Immy must pretend to be bisexual around Lili's new friends. The longer she spend...

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Name: Julie Broadbent
26 June 2023;

Genre: Horror

If you are 14+ and you love horror, then You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight is an absolute must read! Charity Curtis loves her job, she gets to play the 'final-girl' at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to come to the camp to be scared and play the full-contact terror game based on...

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Name: Clair Bossons
26 June 2023;

Genre: Personal Growth

Ven loved dancing, it was all she wanted to do until one day she collapses on stage and has to re think her whole future. Sing If You Can't Dance is written in quite a clever way in that you never really get to know what Ven's diagnosis is, because she does not want to be defi...

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