Young Adult Book Reviews

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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Name: Clair Bossons
04 October 2024;

Genre: Dystopian

Melissa Welliver's debut novel The Undying Tower is an exhilarating start to The Undying Trilogy. From the very first page, I was thrust into a gripping narrative that sets the stage for a future world torn apart by division and conflict....

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Name: Clare Wilkins
02 October 2024;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Desert Echoes is a tender, thoughtful story full of flawed and fragile individuals grappling with the confusion and complexity of grief and growing-up. Kam's boyfriend Ash has disappeared, presumed dead, after a trip goes disastrously and heart-breakingly wrong. Floored by gri...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
18 September 2024;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Erin and Max are two teenagers at different stages of their gender/identity journeys. For Erin, the changes appear outwardly seamless and accepted but for Max, the struggle continues. Although they used to date, two years have passed when Max unexpectedly asks Erin to accompany him on a road t...

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Name: Bethany Age 14
17 September 2024;

Genre: Horror

I really loved How to Survive a Horror Movie, it is a horror and very thrilling with lots of unexpected twists. As soon as I started reading, the book had its hooks in me and I finished the book that evening. It is very engaging with just the right amount of the supernatural.<...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
16 September 2024;

Genre: Dystopian

An intriguing and disturbingly credible premise sees a nation lulled into a state-controlled state of apathy.  Tampering with the water supplies has led to a population of passive conformists, with anger, fear and dissent mere memories.  But it is a world of supposed calm that...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
16 September 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Big Tech and high stakes mark this AI-inspired story of a girl inheriting her father's company, and with it,  a whole world of trouble. 17-year-old Riya's father has built the Anticipation Machine - 'ART', a game-changing tool with the power to predict people's futures. With only six keyholder...

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Name: Emelia Helliwell
16 September 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Our Wicked Histories is a gothic murder-mystery novel.  It had a slow start for me but once I got through the first chapter or two, I was hooked!  The way in which the author writes the story is brilliant. The use of flashbacks and the twists and turns keeps you on the...

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Name: Clair Bossons
16 September 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

The concept for The Girl with No Reflection is brilliantly thought through. There are two alternate universes with 'mirror people' who, as punishment for starting a war years ago, are imprisoned and forced to live their lives having to mimic humans.  In the real world, we have...

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