Category: Growing Up

Book Review | Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain

Posted January 30, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Growing Up, UKYA, Walker Books, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely readers. I am about to review the first book to make me cry of 2024 and my second 5 star read. I had a glorious glowing book hangover not in a bad way and it took me a while to really process it. 05/01/2023 – Only 17 pages in and already the main characters Sid and Mel, remind me a bit of 10 Things I Hate About You. Especially Sid specifically I think. I’m just getting that vibe and I love it. 10/01/2024 – Well what a book. I’m still crying… that was not what I expected […]

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 […]

BLOG TOUR: GUEST POST & REVIEW – FRESHERS by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison

Posted August 17, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Book Review, Chicken House Books, Freshers, Friendship, Growing Up, Guest Post, Love, Lucy Ivison, New Adult, Student Life, Tom Ellen, University, YA / 2 Comments

I’m so excited to be part of this tour guys. I mean this was my first book by Tom and Lucy, (I know right, terrible reader) but I have to say I’m glad I started with Freshers first. It totally has you wetting your pants and snorting out loud. It’s pure genius. Anyways that’s enough of my fangirling, you can read more of that further down the post with my review. But first I have a guest post from the lovely Tom and Lucy with pictures too. So before you read that, here is a little more about Freshers. Freshersby Tom Ellen & Lucy […]