Young Adult Book Reviews

Name: Lorraine Ansell
01 September 2022;

Genre: Dystopian

In One Drop, Axel and Dune are captured by the 'Bloods' (Brotherhood of the Blood of Jesus). Chips inserted in their heads and placed in the ERAC (Evangelical Realignment Centre), every night they have to fight against brainwashing to retain their memories, who they are and wh...

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Name: Nathan Cox
01 September 2022;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Running Out Of Time by Simon Fox is an action packed science fiction thriller that will hold the reader's interest from the very first to the very last page. The story twists and turns as it unravels leaving you guessing right to the end. I love how the story hops between past...

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Name: Linda Brown
31 August 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Empress Crowned in Red is the conclusion to Witches Steeped in Gold. The author, Ciannon Smart, has a wonderful imagination and engages her audience by creating a beautiful, complex world... Iraya, her revenge taken and her magic u...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
30 August 2022;

Genre: Dystopian

Timberdark picks up where Wranglestone left off, but there are still secrets and discoveries to be made at the heart of Lake Wranglestone..... The dead are not the threat they were, and Peter and Cooper now travel the wilderness around Lake Wranglestone looking for returnees (...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
22 August 2022;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Deina is a thief. She is also a soul severer, one of Hades' representatives on earth, guiding the dead to the threshold of the Underworld. Contracted to serve Hades she can only reduce her tenure through successful severing, gradually diminishing the length of her service. But when the all-pow...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
21 August 2022;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Deina is a Severer; one of many taken from their families as children once marked by the Gods with a Sigil. Under the Order of Hades, she is tasked with assisting the dying into the Underworld and trapped by a Torc placed around her neck, only to be removed after she has served for 40 years, u...

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Name: Chomo Chomo
20 August 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

The cover of this book promises something frightening and the book delivers in spades. Opening in a butterfly centre, the action starts right from the off. Ivy is a sympathetic heroine, with a sad background, who likes people and works hard. The writing style is fast paced and there is...

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Name: Jane Welby
16 August 2022;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

15-year-old Muzna feels frumpy. The daughter of first generation immigrants from Pakistan, she is caught between two cultures and struggling with low self-esteem and the changes that adolescence brings. She has been brought up to respect her parents and do as they say; they want her to be a do...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
15 August 2022;

Genre: Friends and family

Hector is the class clown and sometimes, just sometimes, the class bully. One day he causes an accident and suddenly his one true friend and life are no longer the same. Full of anger and a sense of injustice, Hector is offered an unusual deal by a strange old lady and her dog. Offering to mak...

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Name: Linda Brown
15 August 2022;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Six Crimson Cranes is a magical story that will immerse you into the author's stunning world of beautiful, believable characters, enchanting places, traditions, mythology, dragons and magical objects. Princess Shiori has a secret: forbidden magic is in her blood. On the...

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