Category: YA

📚 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 […]

📚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 […]