Category: 2017 Books

BLOG TOUR – CHLOE SNOW’S DIARY: CONFESSIONS OF A HIGH SCHOOL DISASTER by Emma Chastain

Posted April 26, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Comtemporary, Emma Chastain, Favourites, Simon & Schuster, Teen Fic / 1 Comment

Hi Everyone, I’m so excited to be part of this blog tour for Chloe Snow’s Diary: Confessions of a High School Disaster! This is an amazing book and you should read it if you love Geek Girl, Waiting for Callback or if your older a Bridget Jones’s Diary for Teens. I posted my review of this book yesterday so click here if you want to take a look. Before I continue with my blog tour piece, here is a little bit more on the book… Fourteen-year-old Chloe Snow is about to start ninth grade when her mum announces she can’t […]

REVIEW – CHLOE SNOW’S DIARY: CONFESSIONS OF A HIGH SCHOOL DISASTER by Emma Chastain

Posted April 25, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Comtemporary, Emma Chastain, Favourites, New Author, Reviews, Simon & Schuster, Teen Fic, YA / 1 Comment

Chloe Snow’s Diary: Confessions of a High School Disasterby Emma ChastainPublisher – Simon & SchusterRelease Date – April 20th 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Fourteen-year-old Chloe Snow is about to start ninth grade when her mum announces she can’t create art in suburban Massachusetts, and goes to Mexico to work on her novel. As she is left with only her (socially awkward) dad as company, Chloe faces multiple new challenges as she begins high school. Told in hilarious, heart-warming and awkwardly honest diary entries, this is Bridget Jones’s Diary for a new generation. and is set to make you […]

REVIEW – PAPER BUTTERFLIES by Lisa Heathfield

Posted March 22, 2017 by Emma in 2016 Books, 2017 Books, Comtemporary, Electric Monkey, Favourites, Lisa Heathfield, New Author, Romance, YA, YA Book Prize 2017 / 2 Comments

Paper Butterfliesby Lisa HeathfieldPublisher – Electric MonkeyRelease Date – January 12th 2017 (this edition)Buy – Amazon | Book Depository June’s life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one – and a secret one. She is trapped like a butterfly in a net. But then June meets Blister, a boy in the woods. In him she recognises the tiniest glimmer of hope that perhaps she can find a way to fly far, far away from her home and be free. Because every creature in this world deserves their freedom . . . But at what price? Paper […]

REVIEW – ALL ABOUT MIA by Lisa Williamson

Posted March 3, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Comtemporary, David Fickling Books, Favourites, Lisa Williamson, Most Anticipated, Reality, Reviews, Teen Fic, YA / 3 Comments

All About Mia by Lisa WilliamsonRelease Date – February 2nd 2017Publisher – David Fickling BooksBuy – Amazon | Book Depository From no. 1 Bestselling YA author Lisa Williamson, comes another insightful and unputdownable teen drama – All About Mia. A brilliant look into the mind of a teenager stuck in the middle. One family, three sisters. GRACE, the oldest: straight-A student. AUDREY, the youngest: future Olympic swimming champion. And MIA, the mess in the middle. Mia is wild and daring, great with hair and selfies, and the undisputed leader of her friends – not attributes appreciated by her parents or teachers. […]

BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY- LONG WAY HOME by Katie McGarry

Posted February 3, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Romance / 4 Comments

Hello Everyone, Today I’m part of the Long Way Home blog tour, and I have for you an excerpt. Sadly I was meant to do a Review also but I’ve been doing lots of events at school and Harry Potter Book Night that I haven’t had the time sadly. This is one of my favourites from her in comparison to the Pushing the Limits series. So before I share my except, here is a brief description of the this wonderful instalment to the Thunder Road Series… Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the […]

BLOG TOUR: THE WITCH’S TEARS by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr

Posted January 26, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Fantasy, Favourites, HarperCollins, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, Magic, Most Anticipated, The Witch's Kiss, The Witch's Tears / 4 Comments

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO THE WITCH’S TEARS!!!! This week has been a week of blog tours for me and a week of releases that’s for sure. One of which is this beauty. I’ve read both in one week and they are incredible. I haven’t read a witch/fantasy book like this in a long time. My reviews will be up shortly. But before I go onto my post for the tour, I wanted to say that I met these lovely sisters, at my school, at my event that I created and it was amazing. The students loved it and the atmosphere […]

BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita and Honor Cargill

Posted January 23, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Most Anticipated, Perdita & Honor Cargill, Waiting for Callback / 5 Comments

Hi Everyone, and welcome to DAY 1 of Waiting For Callback: Take Two Blog Tour. I reviewed this books only days ago and it’s the highlight of my month so far, just scroll down a little further and your will find a glowing and fangirling review. I would recommend it as it’s just makes you smile and love so much. 😍 Not only is their sequel is even more amazing than the first, but Perdita and Honor are the loveliest of people too. The tour is themed by incorporating the stages of movie/book production and as I’m first up and it’s […]

ARC REVIEW – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita & Honor Cargill

Posted January 18, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Favourites, Most Anticipated, Perdita & Honor Cargill, Reviews, Romance, Waiting for Callback / 3 Comments

Waiting for Callback: Take Two (Waiting for Callback #2)by Perdita & Honor CargillPublisher – Simon and Schuster UKRelease Date: 26th January 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Elektra has finally landed a part in a film. It’s the dream. Well …until she works out that Straker is a movie so dystopian that within weeks most of the cast and all of the crew wish that the world had actually ended (preferably in scene one). And while it’s obviously great news that she’s moved from the friend-zone with Archie to become his almost-girlfriend, it would be better if he hadn’t immediately relocated […]

REVIEW – HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling

Posted January 16, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Fantasy, Harry Potter, J.K Rowling, Magic, Reviews / 6 Comments

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter #1)by J.K. Rowling Publisher – Bloomsbury Children’sRelease Date (this edition) – September 1st 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding […]