Category: Reviews

MASH-UP REVIEW – SONGS ABOUT A GIRL & SONGS ABOUT US by Chris Russell

Posted August 7, 2017 by Emma in 2016 Books, 2017 Books, ARC, Book Review, Chris Russell, Contemporary, Debut Author, Family, Favourites, Hatchette Children's Group, Love, Music, Mystery, New Author, Reviews, Series, Summer, Summer Reading, Teenage Life, YA / 2 Comments

Songs About a Girl & Songs About Us (Songs About a Girl #1&2)by Chris RussellPublisher – Hodder Children’s BooksRelease Date – July 28th 2016 & July 13th 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Charlie Bloom never wanted to be ‘with the band’. She’s happiest out of the spotlight, behind her camera, unseen and unnoticed. But when she’s asked to take backstage photos for hot new boy band Fire&Lights, she can’t pass up the chance. Catapulted into a world of paparazzi and backstage bickering, Charlie soon becomes caught between gorgeous but damaged frontman, Gabriel West, and his boy-next-door bandmate Olly Samson. Then, […]

REVIEW – CHLOE SNOW’S DIARY: CONFESSIONS OF A HIGH SCHOOL DISASTER by Emma Chastain

Posted April 25, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Comtemporary, Emma Chastain, Favourites, New Author, Reviews, Simon & Schuster, Teen Fic, YA / 1 Comment

Chloe Snow’s Diary: Confessions of a High School Disasterby Emma ChastainPublisher – Simon & SchusterRelease Date – April 20th 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Fourteen-year-old Chloe Snow is about to start ninth grade when her mum announces she can’t create art in suburban Massachusetts, and goes to Mexico to work on her novel. As she is left with only her (socially awkward) dad as company, Chloe faces multiple new challenges as she begins high school. Told in hilarious, heart-warming and awkwardly honest diary entries, this is Bridget Jones’s Diary for a new generation. and is set to make you […]

REVIEW – ALL ABOUT MIA by Lisa Williamson

Posted March 3, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Comtemporary, David Fickling Books, Favourites, Lisa Williamson, Most Anticipated, Reality, Reviews, Teen Fic, YA / 3 Comments

All About Mia by Lisa WilliamsonRelease Date – February 2nd 2017Publisher – David Fickling BooksBuy – Amazon | Book Depository From no. 1 Bestselling YA author Lisa Williamson, comes another insightful and unputdownable teen drama – All About Mia. A brilliant look into the mind of a teenager stuck in the middle. One family, three sisters. GRACE, the oldest: straight-A student. AUDREY, the youngest: future Olympic swimming champion. And MIA, the mess in the middle. Mia is wild and daring, great with hair and selfies, and the undisputed leader of her friends – not attributes appreciated by her parents or teachers. […]

ARC REVIEW – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita & Honor Cargill

Posted January 18, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Favourites, Most Anticipated, Perdita & Honor Cargill, Reviews, Romance, Waiting for Callback / 3 Comments

Waiting for Callback: Take Two (Waiting for Callback #2)by Perdita & Honor CargillPublisher – Simon and Schuster UKRelease Date: 26th January 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Elektra has finally landed a part in a film. It’s the dream. Well …until she works out that Straker is a movie so dystopian that within weeks most of the cast and all of the crew wish that the world had actually ended (preferably in scene one). And while it’s obviously great news that she’s moved from the friend-zone with Archie to become his almost-girlfriend, it would be better if he hadn’t immediately relocated […]

REVIEW – HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling

Posted January 16, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Fantasy, Harry Potter, J.K Rowling, Magic, Reviews / 6 Comments

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter #1)by J.K. Rowling Publisher – Bloomsbury Children’sRelease Date (this edition) – September 1st 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding […]

MINI-REVIEWS Part 1….

Posted January 9, 2017 by Emma in 2016 Books, Dystopian, Fantasy, Mini-Review, Reviews, Romance / 4 Comments

…of all books I didn’t get to review in 2016! (So due to loads of things last year, there was some really great books that I never got to review so I thought I would so some really short reviews that would make me feel better for reviewing them and showing you just how amazing they are!) Did I Mention I Miss You (DIMILY #3)by Estelle MaskamePublisher – Black and White PublishingDate read – September 2016Find my reviews for book 1 and book 2 Review – This is it, the end of the most addictive and sensational contemporary novel to […]