Category: Teenage Life

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 […]

BLOG TOUR: The Burning by Laura Bates – Top 5 inspirational books for young feminists

Posted February 23, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog, Blog Tour, Feminism, Girl Power, Simon & Schuster, Teenage Life, YA / 2 Comments

Happy Saturday Everyone, today I’m super excited to be part of The Burning blog tour. The Burning by Laura Bates, the founder behind Everyday Sexism Project, has created a book based on events that happen in society today, the pressures of growing up and what it takes to be a young girl today. It a powerful YA novel, that every teenager needs to read. Today Laura talks about her top 5 best feminist books, which I would highly recommend too. But before that, here is a little bit more about The Burning… The Burning tells the story of fifteen-year-old […]

ARC REVIEW – SWEETFREAK by Sophie McKenzie

Posted August 11, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, ARC, Book Review, Comtemporary, Favourites, Simon & Schuster, Teen Fic, Teenage Life, YA / 3 Comments

SweetFreakby Sophie McKenziePublisher – Simon & SchusterRelease Date – August 24th 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Get ready for a brand new edge-of-your-seat read from bestselling author Sophie McKenzie! When everyone thinks you’re a liar, how hard will you fight for the truth? Carey and Amelia have been best friends forever. Then Amelia starts being trolled by SweetFreak, a mysterious and hateful online account, and Carey is accused of being behind the vicious comments and threats. Shut out by her other friends and shunned by Amelia, Carey is determined to clear her name and find out who’s really sending […]

BLOG TOUR: LOLA OFFLINE by Nicola Doherty

Posted August 9, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Contemporary, Feature, Guest Post, Hatchette Children's Group, Nicola Doherty, Teen Fic, Teenage Life / 0 Comments

Today I’m very excited to be part of the blog tour for Nicola’s latest book, Lola Offline. It is an amazing premise and next on my list to read. I admit that I haven’t read anything by her in the past but that will change. Today I have a guest post prepared, How Running helped her with life in Lola’s eyes and but also in Nicola’s. It’s such a great piece that it makes me want to run too. But before that, here is a little more about Lola Offline. Lola Offlineby Nicola DohertyPublisher – Orion BooksRelease Date – 10th […]

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 – LOBSTERS by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison

Posted July 10, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Book Review, Chicken House Books, Contemporary, Debut Author, Favourites, Love, Lucy Ivison, New Author, Teenage Life, Tom Ellen, YA / 2 Comments

Lobsters by Tom Ellen & Lucy IvisonPublisher – Chicken House BooksRelease Date – June 5th 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Sam and Hannah only have the holidays to find ‘The One’. Their lobster. But instead of being epic, their summer is looking awkward. They must navigate social misunderstandings, the plotting of well-meaning friends, and their own fears of being virgins for ever to find happiness. But fate is at work to bring them together. And in the end, it all boils down to love. My Review Lobsters is the first book that Tom and Lucy wrote together and the second […]