Category: Book Review

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW – JINXED by Amy McCulloch

Posted August 9, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, Blog Tour, Book Review, Fantasy, Science Fiction / 1 Comment

Hi guys, I’m so excited to be part of this tour. It was this time last that I began reading The Potion Diaries, and it was one of my highlighted series of the year. I loved just being transported somewhere magical and I couldn’t wait to read more from Amy. Today I share my review of Jinxed. All I can say at this point is that you need to buy it, because it’s a cracker. Lacey Chu has big dreams of becoming a companioneer for MONCHA, the largest tech firm in North America and the company behind the “baku” – a […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW – THEATRICAL by Maggie Harcourt

Posted July 28, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical, Usborne Publishing / 1 Comment

Happy YALC Day everyone and to those who aren’t there like me, I hope your enjoying a bookish day in the a cooler environment. Once again I seem to be on some amazing blog tours at the moment. This one I’ve been excited since I found out. I admit I finished the book only few days and it’s still with me at the moment. The feels from Maggie’s writing is just…unimaginable really. As part of the blog tour as well as our review, we also share our memories of theatre. Mine is a little different so don’t forget to continue […]

BLOG TOUR: SERIES REVIEW – ACCESS ALL AWKWARD by Beth Garrod

Posted July 20, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Access All Awkward, Awkward series, Beth Garrod, Blog Tour, Book Review, Featured, Scholastic, Series Review / 0 Comments

Today I’m so so excited to end this incredible blog tour, why because I think I’ve found one of my favourite series this year. For the past month I’ve been binge reading this series so I can could get the final book. I’ve done it and it’s been simply the best month of reading. Anywho I digress, today I share my SERIES review. So not just one review but three combined together. I promise there will be no spoilers but there will be some awkward fangirling of this series. So before my review, here is a little bit more on […]

📚ARC REVIEW – THE SUMMER OF US by Cecilia Vinesse

Posted June 11, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Star, Book Review, Cecilia Vinesse, Comtemporary, Team Bkmrk, The Summer of Us / 0 Comments

The Summer Of Usby Cecilia VinessePublisher – Little Brown Book GroupRelease Date – June 14th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Aubrey and Rae have been planning their trip around Europe practically from the moment they became BFFs in primary school. And, now, it ought to be the perfect way to spend their last summer together before university. But things are more complicated at eighteen than they were at ten. There’s Jonah, Aubrey’s seemingly perfect boyfriend, and his best friend Gabe, the boy Aubrey may have accidentally kissed. And there’s Clara, the friend Rae is crushing on, hard, even though […]

📚 REVIEW – SLAY by Kim Curran

Posted June 5, 2018 by Emma in 4 Stars, Book Review, Kim Curran, Slay, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

SLAYby Kim CurranPublisher – Usborne PublishingRelease Date – May 3rd 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Meet SLAY – SLAY do two things and they do them well: they play killer music and they slay killer demons. When Milly, the lonely daughter of a world-famous opera singer, arrives home to discover that her mum has been taken over by something very evil, she finds herself in mortal danger. But the last people she expects to rescue her are the hottest boy band on the planet… Enter SLAY: playing kickass gigs in the spotlight, and saving the world from demons in […]

📚 REVIEW – THE EXTINCTION TRIALS: EXILE by S. M. Wilson

Posted June 1, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Adventure, Book Review, Dinosaurs, S.M. Wilson, The Extinction Trials / 0 Comments

Exile (The Extinction Trials #2)by S. M. WilsonPublisher – UsborneRelease Date – 31 July 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Betrayal. Sacrifice. Survival. Welcome to The Extinction Trials. After surviving on Piloria once, Storm and Lincoln are the obvious candidates to return to the dinosaur continent to test the new virus that should clear the way for human settlement. But they have their own priorities – finding a cure for the plague that’s sweeping Earthasia, and keeping themselves alive. For my review of the first book The Extinction Trials please click here. The Extinction Trials series is fast becoming one […]

📚 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 […]