Author: Holly Bourne

Twenty Twenty One – My Top 10 Books of the year

Posted January 3, 2022 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Blog, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, Wrap-Up / 0 Comments

Hello it’s me again, I am on a roll at the moment with blogging and I am loving it. I’m starting as I mean to go on. So today is all about the books I loved during 2021. I have to say the it’s quite varied and I love seeing how my tastes have changed. I can’t wait to see what my reading is like year! So let’s get to the nitty gritty part of the post with my top 10 books of the year! As my reading is drastically lower than normal with life and I haven’t reviewed every […]

Reading Update: 5 Books I’m looking forward to reading next

Posted April 13, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, TBR / 3 Comments

Hello fellow bookworms, hope we are doing well. Bookshops are open this week and I can’t wait to go into one, hopefully today! I’m trying to get back into blogging and I’ve written loads of ideas down. So to start back my comeback and getting back into a blogging routine I thought I would share with you a reading update and the 5 books I’m going to be reading next. These books are a mixture of blog tours, arcs and books I’m excited to read that have been long awaited. But first I thought I would share my thoughts on […]

5 Books from my Favourite Authors coming out in 2021!

Posted January 15, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, Book List, Booked-In, Bookish Post, Most Anticipated, YA / 8 Comments

Happy Friday my lovely readers. I thought it’s about time I talk about some of the books coming out in 2021! Usually I would do a whole list of books, but this time I’m focusing on Top 5 books, that I will definitely read as soon as I can get my hands on! If you know me and my blog, you know what books would be on this list. 😅 2021 Favourite Books from my Favourite Authors Well this has to be my most anticipated book of 2021. You know the I’m the Ultimate Holly Bourne fan and I can’t […]

Review – The Places I’ve Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

Posted October 2, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Book Review, Favourite Author, Favourites, Feature, Friendship, Holly Bourne, UKYA, YA / 9 Comments

Content warnings – Abuse, unhealthy relationships This is her tenth YA book and Holly Bourne isn’t Queen of YA for nothing! It taken me a while to really put this book into words. If you saw my tweets when reading this book you will understand that this book pretty much ripped me apart. There was snot, I’m happy to admit that. When you read this book, please have a box of tissues with you, you will need them. I promise you that. Amelie starts 6th Form completely alone and straight into the unknown, but she still has herself, her cardigans […]

Friendship + Magic = A Spell – Inspired by Holly Bourne’s novella What Magic is This?

Posted July 31, 2019 by Emma in Barrington Stoke, Bookish Post, Holly Bourne, Magic, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my Book Friends – today I bring to you an inspired post from Holly Bourne’s latest book, What Magic is This? that I reviewed last week. I loved it and if you know me you will know that Holly is one of my all time favourite authors. I felt inspired by this novella so I created a spell, with a little help from Barrington Stoke and Holly Bourne. This spell and this novella is something for you whether you believe in magic or not, whether you loved magical friendships like Harry Potter (- which I’m sure you all do.) […]

Review – What Magic is This? by Holly Bourne – A spellbinding novella!

Posted July 25, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Best Books, Book Review, Favourite Author, Featured, Friendship, Holly Bourne, Magic / 2 Comments

Once again, Holly has done it again! As soon a s I started reading it I had a huge smile on my face, it’s that familiarity of her writing style that just makes you feel very excited and warm inside because you know everything is right in the world with Holly Bourne writing her books. What Magic is This? is no exception to that. She never fails to amaze me on writing a story half the size of all of her other books and yet it still packs a punch. Three friends all believe that after one night they have magical […]