Category: 5 Stars

📚 RELEASE DAY REVIEW – IT’S A WRAP by Perdita and Honor Cargill

Posted May 31, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Perdita & Honor Cargill, Waiting for Callback / 0 Comments

It’s A Wrap (Waiting for Callback #3)by Perdita and Honor CargillPublisher – Simon & Schuster Release Date – 31 July 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Elektra James is back and her life is more hilariously chaotic than ever! Elektra is hoping for BIG things this year… She’s finished her first feature film (even if her character was unexpectedly killed off half-way through filming), hosted the party of the year (well, before her mum arrived and threw everyone out – how embarrassing!) and managed to become Archie Mortimer’s Actual Real Life girlfriend (for now anyway…), so things are most definitely moving […]

📚 REVIEW – THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF OKAY by Laura Steven

Posted May 18, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Contemporary, Feminism, Laura Steven, YA / 0 Comments

The Exact Opposite of Okayby Laura StevenPublisher – Electric MonkeyRelease Date – March 8th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire. Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal. Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to […]

📚 DOUBLE REVIEW – FLAWED & PERFECT by Cecelia Ahern

Posted May 9, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Cecelia Ahern, Dystopian / 0 Comments

Flawed (Flawed #1)by Cecelia AhernPublisher – HarperCollins Children’s BooksRelease Date – March 24th 2016Buy – Amazon | Book Depository The stunning YA debut from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. Celestine North lives a perfect life. She’s a model daughter and sister, she’s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she’s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED. In this stunning novel, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts […]

📚 REVIEW – THE WITCH’S BLOOD by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr

Posted April 11, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, HarperCollins, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, Magic, The Witch's Blood, The Witch's Kiss, The Witch's Tears / 0 Comments

The Witch’s Blood (The Witch’s Kiss #3)by Katherine and Elizabeth CorrPublisher – HarperCollins Children’s BooksRelease Date – March 8th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Just who can you trust when no one around you is who they seem? The final spell-binding book in THE WITCH’S KISS trilogy by authors and sisters, Katharine and Elizabeth Corr. Life as a teenage witch just got harder for Merry when her brother, Leo is captured and taken into an alternative reality by evil witch Ronan. Determined to get him back, Merry needs to use blood magic to outwit her arch-rival and get Leo […]

📚 REVIEW – THE WITCH’S KISS by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr

Posted March 9, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, HarperCollins, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, Series, The Witch's Kiss / 0 Comments

The Witch’s Kiss (The Witch’s Kiss #1)by Katherine and Elizabeth CorrPublisher – HarperCollins Children’sRelease Date – June 30th 2016 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Sixteeen-year-old Meredith is fed-up with her feuding family and feeling invisible at school – not to mention the witch magic that shoots out of her fingernails when she’s stressed. Then sweet, sensitive Jack comes into her life and she falls for him hard. The only problem is that he is periodically possessed by a destructive centuries-old curse. Meredith has lost her heart, but will she also lose her life? Or in true fairytale tradition, can true love’s […]

📚ARC REVIEW – GOODBYE, PERFECT by Sara Barnard

Posted February 7, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Contemporary, Macmillan Children's Books, Most Anticipated, Sara Barnard, YA / 1 Comment

Goodbye, Perfectby Sara BarnardPublisher – Macmillan Children’s BooksRelease Date – 8th February 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository When I was wild, you were steady . . . Now you are wild – what am I?Eden McKinley knows she can’t count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it’s a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their GCSEs. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that the boyfriend is […]

📚#FantasticalFeb: ARC REVIEW – THE WICKED DEEP by Shea Ernshaw

Posted February 5, 2018 by Emma in #FantasticalFeb, 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Debut Author, Fantasy, Shea Ernshaw, Simon & Schuster, The Wicked Deep, YA / 0 Comments

The Wicked Deepby Shea ErnshawPublisher – Simon and Schuster UKRelease Date – March 8th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow… Two centuries ago, in the small, isolated town, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return from the depths, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them down to their watery deaths. […]

📚 REVIEW – BATMAN by Marie Lu

Posted January 24, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, DC Icons, Marie Lu, Most Anticipated, Penguin Book UK, Series, Superheros, YA / 1 Comment

Batman (DC Icons #2)by Marie LuPublisher – PenguinRelease Date – January 4th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world’s greatest super hero: BATMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal’s getaway – disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase. Sentenced to community service in Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city’s most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the […]

📚BLOG TOUR REVIEW – ZENITH by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings

Posted January 15, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Fantasy, HQYA, Lindsay Cummings, Sasha Alsberg, Science Fiction, The Androma Saga, YA, Zenith / 0 Comments

Well hello again everyone, I’m back with your another blog tour review. Again this is one of my most anticipated books of 2018, I was lucky enough to read it over Christmas, and it was truly magnificent. So today I share with you my review, but before that here is a little bit more about the book. Zenith (The Androma Saga #1)by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay CummingsPublisher – HQ Release Date – 11th January 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To […]