Young Adult Book Reviews
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Precious Catastrophe
Name: Katrina Waldron
30 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Precious Catastrophe is an amazingly spellbinding book containing many dark secrets and happenings. Following on from Perfectly Preventable Deaths (the first novel in the series), we see events pick up a year on from the last time we saw Maddy and Catlin. Told from the dual pe...
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The Edelweiss Pirates
Name: Kimberley Lawson
28 September 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
On his regular visits to his grandfather’s grave, Daniel notices an old man watching him from a nearby monument. One day, Daniel plucks up the courage to speak to the man; they begin to talk and the man tells Daniel his name is Josef Gerlach and the grave he has been visiting belongs to his br...
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Burn
Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 September 2021;Genre: Fantasy
Patrick Ness is a writer who refuses to be pigeonholed and this mind-bending, genre-defying, completely gripping work of genius re-imagines the Cold War - but with dragons! In Burn, Sarah Dewhurst's father hires a dragon to help on their farm and thus save the family fr...
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T.I.G.E.R.S
Name: Lorraine Ansell
27 September 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Greer is now in her final year at St Aidan the Great boarding school and, with the shocking events from Longcross Hall as a vivid memory, tries to press the Abbott for further details on the F.O.X.E.S society. She is soon shocked to find out, however, that the huntin' shootin' and fishin' horr...
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The Ash House
Name: Julie Broadbent
27 September 2021;Genre: Friends and family
A new boy arrives at the Ash House. He has no idea of his name or where he has come from. He is confused and in pain. He is given the name Solitude by the children in the house - Sol for short. He soon discovers that all of the children in the house are named after virtues and are all expected...
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Take Me With You When You Go
Name: Lucy Georgeson
27 September 2021;Genre: Family & Home
Wow! What a collaboration! I was hooked from the very start in this absolutely seamless novel. Take Me With You When You Go is told through emails from siblings Bea and Ezra. Bea has just left home and no-one knows where she is, much less cares, except for her brother Ezra who...
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Name: Kerenza Age 14
26 September 2021;Genre: Horror
I really enjoyed the theme of hunt or be hunted, as the main characters search the island for geocaches and escape from the other teams, and the tension that is created as they slowly realise the truth behind this seemingly harmless competition, and how their relationships grew and changed dur...
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Name: Kerenza Age 14
26 September 2021;Genre: Horror
This book is the sequel to Savage Island. It focuses around three of the main characters from the previous book as well as several new characters. At the start of the book, Grady and some new characters are sent on a team building trip in a remote castle which soon turns out to be no ordinary...
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The Outrage
Name: Helen Walker
22 September 2021;Genre: LBGTQ+
Disturbing, heartbreaking and terrifyingly believable - this is dystopia at its absolute best. The characters, beautifully and honestly rendered, live in your mind long after finishing the book. Themes of courage, love and forgiveness run alongside the overwhelming hatred, fear and ignorance....
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Three Bullets
Name: Lucy Georgeson
21 September 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
The Bloods are in control and they're desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see: right, white, Christian supremist. Anyone who they call abnormal is a target. Amidst the chaos of civil war, the country is on the move as small militia groups fight each other and a sea of refugee...
