Category: Holly Bourne

My Top 5 favourite female writers & characters in YA!

Posted March 14, 2022 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, Favourite Author, Feminism, Holly Bourne, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms, these days I seem to be writing loads of posts and then they stay in my drafts. This was meant to go out last week but Last week was International Women’s Day and it got me thinking and I really wanted to share some of my favourite female writers who create fierce female character we aspire to be or inspired by their character. It will come to no surprise about some of the books that I’m talking about today, but some of these are the strongest female authors and character I’ve read. So without furhter ado […]

Review – The Places I’ve Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

Posted October 2, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Book Review, Favourite Author, Favourites, Feature, Friendship, Holly Bourne, UKYA, YA / 9 Comments

Content warnings – Abuse, unhealthy relationships This is her tenth YA book and Holly Bourne isn’t Queen of YA for nothing! It taken me a while to really put this book into words. If you saw my tweets when reading this book you will understand that this book pretty much ripped me apart. There was snot, I’m happy to admit that. When you read this book, please have a box of tissues with you, you will need them. I promise you that. Amelie starts 6th Form completely alone and straight into the unknown, but she still has herself, her cardigans […]

Friendship + Magic = A Spell – Inspired by Holly Bourne’s novella What Magic is This?

Posted July 31, 2019 by Emma in Barrington Stoke, Bookish Post, Holly Bourne, Magic, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my Book Friends – today I bring to you an inspired post from Holly Bourne’s latest book, What Magic is This? that I reviewed last week. I loved it and if you know me you will know that Holly is one of my all time favourite authors. I felt inspired by this novella so I created a spell, with a little help from Barrington Stoke and Holly Bourne. This spell and this novella is something for you whether you believe in magic or not, whether you loved magical friendships like Harry Potter (- which I’m sure you all do.) […]

Review – What Magic is This? by Holly Bourne – A spellbinding novella!

Posted July 25, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Best Books, Book Review, Favourite Author, Featured, Friendship, Holly Bourne, Magic / 2 Comments

Once again, Holly has done it again! As soon a s I started reading it I had a huge smile on my face, it’s that familiarity of her writing style that just makes you feel very excited and warm inside because you know everything is right in the world with Holly Bourne writing her books. What Magic is This? is no exception to that. She never fails to amaze me on writing a story half the size of all of her other books and yet it still packs a punch. Three friends all believe that after one night they have magical […]

New Feature – Let’s Talk YA…

Posted April 12, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Holly Bourne, Let's Talk Books, UKYA / 15 Comments

So ages ago I posted a tweet about my current read which was Enchantée at the time and this particular post created such a conversation I loved it. Then I did a poll on Twitter on how we react to some of our posts on our blogs or twitter whether we just Like/RT or Comment and the majority was the first. Which I think is good but there’s something about a conversation about your book, talking about it shares so much within the bookish community. So Emily from A Short Book Lover and I were talking so we thought we might […]

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 […]

SPREAD THE #kindnessiscontagious VIRUS!

Posted August 3, 2018 by Emma in Holly Bourne / 1 Comment

Hi Everyone, tomorrow I’m going on holiday but I wanted to share with you a campaign that will be happening from the 9th August. As you know I’m admire and adore Holly’s book, some have said I’m a ‘super fan’ and I guess you could that I am and I’m honoured to be ever since her first book Soulmates she has a special place in my heart and her next novel is my most anticipated every year. I couldn’t wait for Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? because 1) I love the title, I’ve always found that Holly’s books are unique and […]

REVIEW – IT ONLY HAPPENS IN THE MOVIES by Holly Bourne

Posted October 9, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, 5 Stars, Anti-Romance, Book Review, Contemporary, Favourite Author, Favourites, Holly Bourne, It Only Happens in the Movies, Most Anticipated, Romance, Usborne Publishing, YA / 0 Comments

It Only Happens in the Moviesby Holly BournePublisher – Usborne PublisingRelease Date – October 1st 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Audrey is over romance. Since her parents’ relationship imploded her mother’s been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But that doesn’t mean things are easy. Because real love isn’t like the movies… The greatest love story ever told doesn’t feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. It […]