Category: Book Review

📚 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 […]

📚 REVIEW – I STOP SOMEWHERE by T.E. Carter

Posted April 30, 2018 by Emma in 4 Stars, Book Review, Contemporary, T.E.Carter / 0 Comments

I Stop Somewhereby T.E. CarterPublisher – Simon & Schuster Release Date – 19th April 2018Buy – Amazon | Book DepositoryEllie Frias disappeared long before she vanished. Tormented throughout middle school, she begins her freshman year with new clothes, new hair, and a plan: she doesn’t need to be popular, she just needs to blend in with the wallpaper. It’s a lonely existence, but at least no one’s tripping her in the halls. In fact, no one notices her at all. Until Caleb Breward, tells her she’s beautiful and makes her believe it. Ellie loves Caleb, but sometimes she doesn’t like him […]

📚 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 […]

📚RELEASE DAY REVIEW – NOT IF I SAVE YOU FIRST by Ally Carter

Posted March 27, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 4 Stars, Ally Carter, Book Review, Conspiracy, Girl Power, Mystery, Orchard Books / 0 Comments

Not If I Save You First by Ally CarterPublisher – Orchard BooksRelease Date – March 27th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Dear Logan,Someday I’m going to write a book: How Not to Die in Alaska – A Girl’s Guide to Fashionable Survival.I bet you don’t know that a hair pin can make an excellent fishing hook. You may think you can use just any kind of mud for mud masks, but trust me, you CAN’T! In a pinch, nothing starts a fire like nail polish remover. Alaska is tough. You might know this, if you ever replied to my letters. […]

📚 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 […]