Category: YA

📚BLOG TOUR REVIEW – ZENITH by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings

Posted January 15, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Fantasy, HQYA, Lindsay Cummings, Sasha Alsberg, Science Fiction, The Androma Saga, YA, Zenith / 0 Comments

Well hello again everyone, I’m back with your another blog tour review. Again this is one of my most anticipated books of 2018, I was lucky enough to read it over Christmas, and it was truly magnificent. So today I share with you my review, but before that here is a little bit more about the book. Zenith (The Androma Saga #1)by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay CummingsPublisher – HQ Release Date – 11th January 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To […]

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 […]

REVIEW – INVICTUS by Ryan Graudin

Posted September 25, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Book Review, Favourites, Hatchette Children's Group, Historical, Romance, Ryan Graudin, Science Fiction, Time-Travel, YA / 1 Comment

Invictusby Ryan GraudinPublisher – Orion Children’s BooksRelease Date – September 21st 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Time flies when you’re plundering history. Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far’s birth defies the laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he’s ever wanted, and after failing his final time-traveling exam, Far takes a position commanding a ship with a crew of his friends as part of a black market operation to steal valuables from the past. But during a […]

ARC REVIEW – WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER by Leigh Bardugo

Posted August 30, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Action, Adventure, ARC, Book Review, DC Icons, Leigh Bardugo, Most Anticipated, Penguin Book UK, Superheros, Wonder Woman, YA / 1 Comment

Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons #1)by Leigh BardugoPublisher – Penguin Release Date – 31st August 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository She will become a legend but first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning… Diana is desperate to prove herself to her warrior sisters. But when the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal, Alia Keralis. With this single heroic act, Diana may have just doomed the world. Alia is a Warbringer – a descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to […]

BLOG TOUR: GUEST POST & REVIEW – FRESHERS by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison

Posted August 17, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Book Review, Chicken House Books, Freshers, Friendship, Growing Up, Guest Post, Love, Lucy Ivison, New Adult, Student Life, Tom Ellen, University, YA / 2 Comments

I’m so excited to be part of this tour guys. I mean this was my first book by Tom and Lucy, (I know right, terrible reader) but I have to say I’m glad I started with Freshers first. It totally has you wetting your pants and snorting out loud. It’s pure genius. Anyways that’s enough of my fangirling, you can read more of that further down the post with my review. But first I have a guest post from the lovely Tom and Lucy with pictures too. So before you read that, here is a little more about Freshers. Freshersby Tom Ellen & Lucy […]

REVIEW – ONE OF US IS LYING by Karen M. McManus

Posted August 15, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Book Review, Debut Author, Family, Karen M. McManus, Love, Murder, Mystery, Penguin Book UK, Summer Reading, Thriller, YA / 5 Comments

One of Us is Lyingby Karen M. McManusPublisher – Penguin Random HouseRelease Date – June 1st 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won’t ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators […]

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 […]

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 – THE HAWKWEED LEGACY by Irena Brignull

Posted August 1, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Book Review, Family, Fantasy, Favourites, Hatchette Children's Group, Irena Brignull, Love, Magic, Most Anticipated, Mystery, Romance, Series, YA / 0 Comments

The Hawkweed Legacy (Hawkweed Prophecy #2)by Irena BrignullPublisher – Orchard BooksRelease Date – June 1st 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Poppy Hooper doesn’t want to be the queen of the witches. But some problems can’t be left behind. Some love stories can’t be forgotten. Some friendships won’t be broken. And some enemies won’t stay dead… The battle for the throne isn’t over yet. My Review It’s been a long time since I enjoyed a fantasy series on witches, covens, clans and magic with spell books, potions and cauldrons. The Hawkweed Legacy, the sequel to The Hawkweed Prophecy (find my review here) was […]