Young Adult Book Reviews
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Havenfall
Name: Andrew Mullen
31 March 2021;Genre: Fantasy
I thoroughly enjoyed Havenfall which is just the sort of story that I like to read. The author has given it a nice twist in that it is a fantasy story in essence, with a background of magic and other races/communities, but all set in our own world. Although we may not visit t...
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The Infinity Files
Name: Beverley Somerset
16 March 2021;Genre: Science Fiction
In The Infinity Files, we meet Ash Yang, a trainee fighter pilot, trying out for the only available place in the Star Corporation Academy. She has been preparing and studying for this moment for years and is determined to succeed. War has been raging in the solar system agains...
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Name: Julie Broadbent
15 March 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Short Knife - now available in paperback - is set in the 5th century. The Roman Empire has withdrawn from Britain, throwing it into the chaos of the Dark Ages. Young Mai and her sister Haf live a peaceful existence on their small farm with their father, until the day their...
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The Short Knife
Name: Stephen Leitch
10 March 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Short Knife is set in ancient Britain, some four decades after the Romans have withdrawn, as a new threat is invading the country in the form of the Saxons. Mai, her older sister Haf and their father farm the land, living quietly, till three strangers turn up at the farm s...
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The World Between Us
Name: Sharon Bolton
08 March 2021;Genre: Romance & Relationships
The World Between Us is a heart wrenching tale of Alice, bed-bound with the 'Illness', who counts her daily energy levels in spoons. Some days she has enough spoons and other days there's just not enough for her to live her limited life to the full. Alice benefits from Stream...
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Name: Lucy Georgeson
05 March 2021;Genre: Bullying
When 15-year-old Nathan discovers that his older brother Al has taken his own life, his world falls apart. Al was a talented artist. Al was ambitious. Al was going places. So why did he do it? Convinced that his brother was in trouble, Nathan looks into Al's life and relationships. As he does,...
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The Flag Never Touched the Ground
Name: Matthew Lappin
04 March 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
'Freedom would never simply be given. It had to be fought for. And taken.' The life of a Black slave in 1863 was one fraught with segregation, discrimination, exploitation and freedom that could only be dreamt of. William Harvey Carney's beginning to life was no different.William,...
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Game Changer
Name: Clare Wilkins
11 February 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Ash Bowman is one of the stars of his American football team. An all-round decent guy with a tight group of friends and a good head on his shoulders. But his neatly ordered and unremarkable world is jolted when he takes a heavy tackle in a game and finds himself in another dimension, a slightl...
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Name: Catherine Purcell
10 February 2021;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
First off let me confess something...in a rare moment of cleaning - I usually just sweep the room with a glance - I've tidied away my notes on this read. I say 'tidied' but I think my enthusiasm with the task may have led to a total recycling of them as they're nowhere to be found since that e...
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Name: Ruth Cornish
10 February 2021;Genre: Fantasy
The Gilded Ones is brilliant! Gripping, full of threat, peril and totally absorbing, this debut novel has been written by new author, Namina Forna, to represent heroic girls.The Gilded Ones is a fantasy based in another world dominated by powerful men. The characte...
