Category: Contemporary

Blog Tour – “A lifetime of ups and downs” – My Journey to Publication with T.E. Carter

Posted May 10, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Contemporary, Guest Post, Hashtag Reads, I Stop Somewhere, Simon & Schuster, T.E.Carter / 0 Comments

Today I’m really excited to be part of T.E. Carter’s blog tour for her second book, All We Could Have Been. Since I received a copy and talking about the book at the S&S Big Book Brunch, it seems like more hopeful book that her debut I Stop Somewhere. I admit *ashamed* that I haven’t gotten round to this book yet, BUT it’s on my TBR this month. Finally, I know!!!!!! Last year when I first embarked on T.E. Carter’s first book, it blew me away quite literally and emotionally. If you haven’t read it, I would highly recommend it. […]

Blog Tour Review – LOVE and Other Things to Live For by Louise Leverett

Posted April 27, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 3.5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Debut Author, Friendships, New Adult, Romance / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Happy Saturday and I very rarely post at the weekend so this is most certainly a change as well as the book that I’m on tour and sharing my review. On to the blog tour, Today I’m sharing my review of Love and Other Things to Live For by Louise Leverett. But before that here is a little more about the book… Jessica Wood is an aspiring photographer living in London. She’s had her heart broken, and her friends have pieced it back together again. But across the neon lights of Soho, in the smell of alcohol and […]

Let’s Talk YA #3 – True Friendship, Love, & Hope

Posted April 26, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Feature, Friendship, Growing Up, Let's Talk Books, Love, Non Pratt, Reality, Teenage Life, UKYA, Walker Books, YA / 0 Comments

Emily from A Short Book Lover and I have created a weekly feature called Let’s Talk YA. – a weekly feature simply to just share and talk about the books you love. So our posts will all be centered around amazing UKYA authors. You can see the pattern here that a lot of the author and books I’m picking are the ones that really left an impression on me and are likely to be their first book, their debut that set them on that journey. This week’s author is Non Pratt and her book Trouble. I was reminded by this book […]

Let’s Talk YA #2

Posted April 19, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Electric Monkey, Feature, Friendship, Growing Up, Let's Talk Books, Lisa Heathfield, Reality, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Emily from A Short Book Lover and I have created a weekly feature called Let’s Talk YA. – a weekly feature simply to just share and talk about the books you love. So our posts will all be centered around amazing UKYA authors. So continuing with our feature, this week’s author is Lisa Heathfield and the first book I absolutely loved emotionally was Paper Butterflies. I picked this book today because I’m currently reading something of the same genre, and it reminded me of when I first really discovered such emotional and harrowing stories. I read this book at the beginning […]

Blog Tour – Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Posted April 11, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Favourites, Friendship, Grief, Growing Up, Ink Road, Love, Music, Summer, YA / 2 Comments

Today I’m so excited to be part of Summer Bird Blue blog tour. This is my first book by Akemi and I absolutely adored it. It’s an emotional but beautiful book, about love, sisters, grief, friendship, support and family. Before I get to my review, here is a little bit more about the book. Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of—she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her […]

Review – A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven

Posted April 9, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Book Review, Contemporary, Electric Monkey, Favourite Author, Feminism, Friendship, Girl Power, Laura Steven, Love, Most Anticipated, YA / 2 Comments

A Girl Called Shamless (The Exact Opposite of Okay #2) by Laura Steven Publisher – Egmont UK Release Date – 7th March 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Funnier. Ruder. Angrier. Izzy O’Neill is back in the hilarious sequel to The Exact Opposite of Okay. It’s been two months since a leaked explicit photo got Izzy involved in a political sex scandal – and the aftershock is far from over. The Bitches Bite Back movement is gathering momentum as a forum for teenage feminists, and when a girl at another school has a sex tape shared online, once again […]

BLOG AVALANCHE: REVIEW – PAPER AVALANCHE by Lisa Williamson

Posted December 30, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Featured, Lisa Williamson / 1 Comment

I am so excited to be part of this celebration of the new and upcoming novel, Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson. My review was meant to go up way before Christmas but due to end of term I was unable to read it time. So I read this book in two days over Christmas and it was the highlight of my reading that week. Rather than posting it quickly straight after reading it, I want this review and this book to have maximum coverage, because it needs to be heard and praised for how brilliant this book is. So I […]

REVIEW – SONGS ABOUT A BOY by Chris Russell

Posted August 17, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Chris Russell, Contemporary, Songs About a Girl, Team Bkmrk / 0 Comments

This series has fast become one of my favourites. I’m so sad that’s it come to the end, no more Charlie, Gabe, Aiden, Yuki, and Olly but I have to say that Songs About A Boy, was a superb ending and truly one of the best finale books I’ve read in a long time. Songs About A Boy (Songs About A Girl #3)by Chris RussellPublisher – Hodder Children’s BooksRelease Date – August 9th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Music, boy bands, first love and heartbreak in the explosive finale to the Songs About A Girl trilogy – a modern […]

REVIEW – ARE WE ALL LEMMINGS AND SNOWFLAKES? by Holly Bourne

Posted August 15, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Contemporary, Holly Bourne, UKYA, Usborne Publishing / 2 Comments

Holly Bourne’s book are always my most anticipated, as soon as finished the latest from her, I’m craving for more. I was so excited when it came through the door from Usborne, I really am so very lucky. It’s not unknown that she is my favourite author. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? by Holly Bourne Publisher – Usborne Publishing Release Date – August 9th 2018 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for the new friends she never expected […]