Category: MyKindaBook

BLOG TOUR | Guest Post & New Author Series – Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Posted February 10, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Blog Tour, Dystopian, Guest Post, Most Anticipated, MyKindaBook, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Happy Monday! Well I hope it’s a happy one for you. I love starting the week off with promoting one of my anticipated reads of this year – WILDER GIRLS by Rory Power. I first heard about this book back last summer and I kept on seeing it across social media – I knew I needed to read it. The cover alone is gorgeous. So I’m super excited to kick this blog tour off for the UK publication of Wilder Girls. I have my copy ready to read so in the meantime for my review I have a […]

BLOG TOUR: Top 5 Feel Good Musicals – SING Like No One is Listening by Vanessa Jones

Posted May 15, 2019 by Emma in Blog Tour, Contemporary, Guest Post, Music, MyKindaBook, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Today I’m ending the blog tour for Vanessa Jones’ debut book SING Like No One is Listening. I’ve nearly finished the book. (I know last minute reading, but work has been crazy so it was a lot later than I thought I would be reading it.) It’s such a great read and rather than doing a mini review of what I read I will be doing a few review this weekend. It’s such a feel good and easy read, perfect for sunny reading in the UK and just getting lost in some musical talent. Vanessa was very kind […]

Review – Enchantée by Gita Trelease

Posted March 11, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Book Review, Fantasy, Gita Trelease, Historical, Magic, MyKindaBook / 0 Comments

Enchantée by Gita Trelease Publisher – Macmillan Children’s Books Release Date – 21 February 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries—and magicians… When smallpox kills her parents, Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her frail, naive sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on petty magic—la magie ordinaire—Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when the coins won’t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family’s savings, Camille must pursue a […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW & GUEST POST – KICK THE MOON by Muhammad Khan

Posted February 3, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Comtemporary, Family, Favourites, Friendship, Macmillan Children's Books, Muhammad Khan, MyKindaBook / 0 Comments

Kick the Moon by Muhammad Khan Publisher – Macmillan Children’s Books Release Date – January 24th 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE’s are looming and his teachers just won’t let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don’t care about any of it. There’s no space in Ilyas’ life to just be a teenager. Serving detention one day, Ilyas finds a kindred spirit in Kelly Matthews, who is fed up with being pigeonholed as the good girl, and their friendship blows the social strata of […]

BLOG TOUR: MY CHAPTER – FLOORED NOVEL: a collaborative novel

Posted July 11, 2018 by Emma in Blog Tour, Creative Writing, Featured, Floored Novel, MyKindaBook / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, today I’m so excited to be part of a blog tour for a collaborative novel by so many inspiring UKYA authors.7 days, 7 bloggers we collide to create our own story. We each took a line from each story, and created our own creative work from it. Some have written stories, so have thought outside the box and done Pinterest boards, photography. It’s really is something special. Today I share of piece of my writing. These characters have nothing to do with the novel itself, it’s totally my own fanfiction. I’m nervous because I’ve haven’t written something like […]

BLOG TOUR: GUEST POST – TENDER EARTH by Sita Brahmachari

Posted June 5, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Amnesty, Blog Tour, Comtemporary, Guest Post, Macmillan Children's Books, MyKindaBook, Sita Brahmachari / 6 Comments

Hi Everyone, it’s been a while again. I’ve just come back from a lovely week’s holiday, so getting back into the swing of things, including back at work today. So to start off being back at home and getting back into blogging, I have a guest post as part of Sita’s latest novel Tender Earth. They all have calls to action and links out to themed things to do (instead of feeling powerless) – and all link to Amnesty too (they endorsed the book). My themed topic is Women’s March and Issues. Before you read the guest post, here is a […]

RELEASE DAY REVIEW: WINDFALL by Jennifer E.Smith

Posted May 4, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, ARC, Book Review, Comtemporary, Jennifer E. Smith, Most Anticipated, MyKindaBook, Romance / 2 Comments

Windfallby Jennifer E. SmithPublisher – Pan MacmillanRelease Date – May 4th 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she’s been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday—just when it seems they might be on the brink of something—she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment, he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. At first, it seems like a dream come true, especially since the two of them are no strangers […]