Category: 2024 Books

Best YA Books of 2024

Posted December 29, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 1 Comment

Hello, my lovely readers! As 2024 is drawing to a close, it’s time for me to recap my year of reading and select my top ten books of 2024. This year, choosing my favorites was surprisingly easy. I’ve discovered incredible new writers, stumbled upon underrated YA gems that deserve much more attention, and found books that were not only unforgettable but ones I’ll recommend forever. Best of all they are all 5 star + reads! I couldn’t keep it to 10 unfortunately, it was too hard. I feel incredibly fortunate to have met some of these authors throughout the year […]

Book Review | A Sea of Wolves by Sarah Street

Posted October 15, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, YA / 3 Comments

Hello my lovely readers. It’s been a while and I’m catching up on some overdue reviews from the Summer. Ooops. Today I’m really excited to be reviewing my most anticipated read this year. This was my holiday read and it was the perfect story to read by the sea. So lets get straight onto the review… A Sea of Wolves is one of my anticipated reads this year and it didn’t disappoint. After devouring A Curse of Salt last year and naming it one of my favourite reads of 2023. I met Sarah last year as well at YALC completely […]

Book Extract | Handle with Care by Louisa Reid

Posted October 10, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Bookish Post / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely readers. It’s been a while, back to term has been busy but I am back to share some exciting YA books that are newly released starting today! The author of Gloves Off, Louisa Reid has a brand new YA verse novel, Handle with Care that is out today! I’m so excited to read this. At the beginning of the year I read the incredible Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain loved this and this book, Handle with Care reminds me of this alongside Trouble by Non Pratt. Here is a little bit more about the book. I am […]

Under the Cover #10 with Helen Comerford – author of The Love Interest

Posted July 31, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Bookish Post, Interview, Under the Cover / 0 Comments

Happy hump day my lovely book friends. It’s been a while since I did an ‘Under the Cover’ post and I have the pleasure of interviewing Helen Comerford author of The Love Interest to my blog, talking all things inspiration and her favourite superhero and powers. Under the Cover is where I interview some of favourite authors and authors I’ve recently read and discovered. I’m trying to refresh my blog and I love interviewing authors and getting an insight into their storytelling, hence Under the Cover was born. INTERVIEW WITH HELEN COMERFORD Can you pick a quote to summarise your debut book The […]

Mini Book Reviews: The YA Romance Edition | The Love Interest by Helen Comerford & Slowcoach by Bethany Rutter

Posted July 29, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Book Review, Romance, YA / 0 Comments

Good morning my lovely bookworms. It’s even a while. End of term was brutal for me and I just needed some time for myself and reset I guess. But it’s the start of my summer holidays and I intend to return my blog and bookstagram and I have a lot of books to catch up on so over the next week or two you have will have see some mini-reviews starting off with 2 week YA Romance reads. Me and romance reads, I know I very rarely read or review some but here we are. They are so different and […]

Blog Tour | Find Me After by A.Connors – The Case for Lazy and Chaotic Research

Posted July 1, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Blog Tour, Bookish Post / 0 Comments

Happy Monday booklovers! Today I’m so excited to be kicking off the blog tour for one of favourite reads of 2024, Find Me After by A.Connors. You can read my fangirly review here. I am a huge champion for Adam’s books as they are just amazing, atmospheric and immersive YA books. Find Me After, his second YA book is out this Thursday, 4th July. So I urge you to pick up a copy. But before I share this epic guest post with you here is a bit more about the book. The Case for Lazy and Chaotic Research One of […]

ARC Book Review | Find Me After by A.Connors – The best book of the year so far.

Posted June 7, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Dearest Readers, today I am so excited to bring you my book review of one of my most anticipated reads of 2024. Last year I read an incredible debut that was my favoruite book of last year, The Girl Who Broke the Sea. It’s a book that I haven’t stopped recommending. So today I’m bringing you my glowing review of Adam’s second book, Find Me After – which is out in July. *First off I want to start by saying HUGE thank you to Scholastic who has gifted me a pre-proof ARC copy that I read as soon as I […]

Exclusive First Chapter Reveal of Find Me After by A.Connors

Posted May 24, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Bookish Post / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovely readers. Let’s start the bank holiday weekend with an epic reveal. Today I’m so so excited to share an exclusive chapter reveal of one of my favourite books of the year. I was very lucky to have received a super early, pre-proof copy of A.Connor’s new YA Thriller, Find Me After. Below is a bit more about the book. I am partnering with Scholastic UK, to bring you the first chapter of the book to celebrate National Epilepsy Week. In one of his epileptic seizures, Kyle realizes that he has the ability to travel to The […]

Book Review | The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black (Spoiler Free)

Posted May 22, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, Hot Key Books / 0 Comments

Hello my fellow fae, today I bring you a review for one of my most anticapted reads of 2024 the conclusion to The Stolen Heir. I was exceptionally late to the party to reading Holly Black and the Folk of the Air series. But I honestly feel this is one of the best. I talk about this series a lot on my Instagram but I don’t think I’ve put my thoughts and feelings of anything relating to Holly Black on my blog before. So here I am reviewing The Prisoner’s Throne the finale to Stolen Heir duology. It will be […]