Young Adult Book Reviews
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This Song is About Us
Name: Clair Bossons
14 May 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
This Song is About Us is set over three music festivals and follows the highs and lows of young love faced with the complexities of fame. It highlighted the balance between creating a social media following while trying to maintain a private personal life. I absolutely...
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The Binding Spell
Name: Linda Brown
12 May 2025;Genre: Supernatural
The Binding Spell is a dark, enchanting YA novel that weaves witchcraft, family secrets, and ancient superstition into a compelling story set in the mist-shrouded village of Weir Hinny. 19-year-old Morgan, long haunted by nightmares, believes she has finally outgrown her terri...
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The Dark That Hides Us
Name: Linda Brown
08 May 2025;Genre: Fantasy
The Dark that Hides Us is a fantastic continuation of an unforgettable journey that the four friends have been through and it will keep you totally immersed until the very last page… Alexis, Demi, Blaise, and Caeli lie in wait as the Haven prepares for the Battle of St...
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The Binding Spell
Name: Lorraine Ansell
07 May 2025;Genre: Supernatural
When Morgan and her family are forced to move back to her mother's hometown, she has no idea of the history and trouble that await. Village talk of the Pouka King that dwells in the woods, and a niggling voice in her head, add to Morgan's unease. Meeting a local boy who seems...
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Glasgow Boys
Name: Stephen Leitch
29 April 2025;Genre: Social Issues
Set in modern day Glasgow, this powerful novel follows the lives of Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) as they both try to negotiate their ways through life, a life where something as simple as a hug is strange and alien act. Banjo is trying to stay out of trouble long enough (and kee...
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Where Shadows Meet
Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 April 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Some 20 years on from the Twilight phenomenon, a resurgence of the vampire narrative seems timely. The Sunday Times bestseller, Where Shadows Meet, provides an original twist - combining vampire lore with the romantasy subgenre popularised by...
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The Light That Blinds Us
Name: Linda Brown
28 April 2025;Genre: Fantasy
The Light That Blinds Us is full of action. It's totally immersive with likeable characters whose dialogue bounce off one another with humour, respect and love. I have enjoyed every line of this fantasy adventure. Alexis has been haunted throughout his childhood by dist...
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If My Words Had Wings
Name: Clare Wilkins
25 April 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
Ty Forrester's involvement in a high profile armed robbery results in an 18 month sentence in a Young Offenders' institution. Falling in with a crowd his close friends and family had warned him about has left him in Ryecroft and at the mercy of a chaotic system and an inmate hierarchy where an...
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Odd Girl Out
Name: Clare Wilkins
23 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
15-year-old Maaryah is a fish out of water, plucked from a life of wealth and luxury in Dubai and thrown into a state secondary in Essex. Already reeling from the unfathomable breakdown of her parents' marriage and the lifestyle shift it has necessitated, she is soon navigating a new school, f...
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Not That Kind of Hero
Name: Sam
21 April 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
If you know a young YA romantic, then this is the book for them this summer. Not That Kind of Hero by Alexia Casale is a lovely read. The story has a dual perspective for Orla, the story's main protagonist, as part of a blended family, alongside her internal s...
