Category: YA

Review – A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven

Posted April 9, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Book Review, Contemporary, Electric Monkey, Favourite Author, Feminism, Friendship, Girl Power, Laura Steven, Love, Most Anticipated, YA / 2 Comments

A Girl Called Shamless (The Exact Opposite of Okay #2) by Laura Steven Publisher – Egmont UK Release Date – 7th March 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Funnier. Ruder. Angrier. Izzy O’Neill is back in the hilarious sequel to The Exact Opposite of Okay. It’s been two months since a leaked explicit photo got Izzy involved in a political sex scandal – and the aftershock is far from over. The Bitches Bite Back movement is gathering momentum as a forum for teenage feminists, and when a girl at another school has a sex tape shared online, once again […]

Review – TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET by Karen M. McManus

Posted April 2, 2019 by Emma in 5 Stars, Blog, Book Review, Karen M. McManus, Mystery, Penguin Book UK, Thriller, YA / 6 Comments

Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus Publisher – Penguin Books UK Release Date – January 10th 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Ellery’s never been to Echo Ridge, but she’s heard all about it. It’s where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen’s murder five years ago made national news. And where Ellery now has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, after her failed-actress mother lands in rehab. No one knows what happened to either girl, and Ellery’s family is still haunted by their loss. Malcolm grew […]

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 […]

📚 REVIEW – THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF OKAY by Laura Steven

Posted May 18, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Contemporary, Feminism, Laura Steven, YA / 0 Comments

The Exact Opposite of Okayby Laura StevenPublisher – Electric MonkeyRelease Date – March 8th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire. Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal. Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to […]

📚 REVIEW – THE WITCH’S TEARS by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr

Posted March 14, 2018 by Emma in 2017 Books, 4.5 Stars, Fantasy, HarperCollins, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, Series, The Witch's Tears, YA / 0 Comments

The Witch’s Tears (The Witch’s Kiss #2)by Katherine and Elizabeth CorrPublisher – HarperCollins Children’s Release Date – February 2nd 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Can true love’s kiss break your heart…? It’s not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She’s drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven; drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack. But Merry’s not the only one whose fairy tale is over. Big brother Leo is falling apart and everything Merry does seems to push him further to the brink. And everything that happens to Leo makes her ache for revenge. So […]

📚ARC REVIEW – GOODBYE, PERFECT by Sara Barnard

Posted February 7, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Contemporary, Macmillan Children's Books, Most Anticipated, Sara Barnard, YA / 1 Comment

Goodbye, Perfectby Sara BarnardPublisher – Macmillan Children’s BooksRelease Date – 8th February 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository When I was wild, you were steady . . . Now you are wild – what am I?Eden McKinley knows she can’t count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it’s a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their GCSEs. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that the boyfriend is […]

📚#FantasticalFeb: ARC REVIEW – THE WICKED DEEP by Shea Ernshaw

Posted February 5, 2018 by Emma in #FantasticalFeb, 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Debut Author, Fantasy, Shea Ernshaw, Simon & Schuster, The Wicked Deep, YA / 0 Comments

The Wicked Deepby Shea ErnshawPublisher – Simon and Schuster UKRelease Date – March 8th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow… Two centuries ago, in the small, isolated town, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return from the depths, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them down to their watery deaths. […]

✨🌙 #FantasticalFeb

Posted February 1, 2018 by Emma in #FantasticalFeb, Fantasy, Random Post, YA / 0 Comments

Hello Everyone, Today is the first day of February; where has January gone?! Anyways on my blog marks the first day of #Fantastical Feb, one my first themed month this year. A month of reading an YA or Teen Fantasy book or with fantastical elements! I thought I would do a month of fantasy books, I feel that this time of the year is the perfect time to cosy up in snuggle socks, hot cup of tea or coffee and escaping in a totally different world! This month I hope to review some ARCs that I haven’t gotten around too […]

📚 REVIEW – BATMAN by Marie Lu

Posted January 24, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, DC Icons, Marie Lu, Most Anticipated, Penguin Book UK, Series, Superheros, YA / 1 Comment

Batman (DC Icons #2)by Marie LuPublisher – PenguinRelease Date – January 4th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world’s greatest super hero: BATMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal’s getaway – disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase. Sentenced to community service in Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city’s most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the […]