Young Adult Book Reviews
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Every Exquisite Thing
Name: Grace Horn
01 March 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
The author Laura Steven paints the picture of an old drama school in America filled to the brim with students who have academic validation and who crave fame. The story is told from the perspective of Penny Paxton, daughter of a beloved Icon. The pressure she gets from her mother's fame gives...
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Lie Or Die
Name: Bethany Age 14
22 February 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Lie or Die is a gameshow that is based on a well know game called Mafia. The contestants are selected by an interview with the hostess, Pippa. I found this book really interesting and it has loads of plot twists. It is a murder mystery and is a bit scary, I found it ok...
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Girl (In Real Life)
Name: Poppy Age 12
22 February 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Girl (In Real Life) is such a great read! If you struggle to find a book you like or don't particularly find reading fun, try this book! It has over 300 pages but it's really easy to read! No difficult words except for another language which is translated in the book for the p...
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One Last Breath
Name: Rachel Bolton
21 February 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
One Last Breath is fantastic. I couldn't read it fast enough! What begins as a teenage romance soon becomes something more sinister in the heat of a sweltering Florida summer. It's 20 years since the community of Mount Orange suffered the murder of two teenage girls. The murde...
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When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Name: Erin Quigley
16 February 2024;Genre: Family & Home
When We become Ours, an unarguably groundbreaking anthology, contains a wide range of poignant and evocative stories in a variety of genres written about adopted characters by adoptee authors for adoptee readers. The editors, Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, tell us there is n...
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The Invocations
Name: Linda Brown
15 February 2024;Genre: Supernatural
FIVE WOMEN ARE DEAD. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. Police are utterly stumped. In a world where only women can use magic and the men who know about it seek to eradicate them, three damaged young women - one cursed, one hunted, one out for revenge - will team up to track down and t...
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A Cure Ever After
Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 February 2024;Genre: Fantasy
A Cure Ever After is the sequel to Once Upon a Fever (shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize) and features some of the same characters, but also introduces some new ones. The story starts a few years after the end o...
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Goddess Crown
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 February 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Kalothia has been raised in hiding. Her guardians a loyal aunt and tutor, and a series of bodyguards who watch her every step. But she plans an audacious escape. Aware of her origins as a minor royal and desperate for news of the mother and father so knows so little about, she plans to seek an...
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Lies We Sing to the Sea
Name: Eileen Armstrong
08 February 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Reimaginings of the Greek myths are currently enjoying an explosion in popularity, fuelled in part by Booktok. This debut novel, Lies We Sing to the Sea, is a dazzling example, inspired by, but not a retelling of, the fate of Penelope's hanged maids from Homer's The Odyssey.</...
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Proud
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 February 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself" [Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, 1892]. Proud is a triumph. It is a timely LGBTQ+ anthology which celebrates and sings of diversity playing on the readers' senses like a beautiful concerto. The collection, selected by bestselling author Jun...
