Young Adult Book Reviews

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: 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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Name: Linda Brown
13 May 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Twin Crowns is the first book in a new YA fantasy that is full of adventure, magic and wonderful characters. . .  Twin sisters have been separated at birth: Rose, who has been raised to be the Queen of Eana, and to fear the witches that killed her parents; and Wren, raised by...

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Name: M.E.S Age 11
10 May 2024;

Genre: Real life

This book is incredible! I have always been a feminist, and this book highlights so many important issues! I do not actually know if there is a word to describe how good this book is. I'm a Moxie girl and I'm proud of it. Join the fight!

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Name: Lily Bond
09 May 2024;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

The Mercury In Me follows a British Indian girl as she starts to rebel from her parents and experience many new things with music, friends and relationships. The novel is funny and witty and easy to read. The characters are all very likeable and it was so easy to relate to a t...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
08 May 2024;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

'Iris Green is Grey'. The graffiti proves everything that Iris believes about herself - boring, inconsequential, invisible. How has she hooked the delectable Theo - resident school heartthrob? How has she managed to snare two amazing best friends? When will she be found out? The unravelling ha...

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Name: Clair Bossons
07 May 2024;

Genre: Supernatural

Written by Nigerian-German author Efua Traore, Sister Spirit is her first novel for older readers. This supernatural mystery/thriller will appeal to those that enjoy stories set in other countries, mysteries, myths and romance. The main character Tara is a 16-year-old a...

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Name: Emelia Helliwell
07 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Murder, mystery and one amazing, never expected twist at the end... It All Started with a Lie follows Pearl and her three friends on a journey to find the truth. Pearl unexpectedly uncovers a family secret during a game of hide and seek with her twin brothers. Pearl shows her...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

EchoStar: is always listening is an excellent thriller that builds the tension until the very end and (spoiler coming…) with a great final twist! For a book of only 129 pages, Melinda Salisbury manages to create an elaborate narrative full of suspense and foreboding yet centre...

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