Young Adult Book Reviews
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Dead Straight Line
Name: Sue Wilsher
25 March 2026;Genre: Personal Growth
Bored and seeking thrills, Rory creates a game for his gang to play. Called 'Dead Straight Line', the idea is that you have to make your way home from a given point with no deviations, even if this means trespassing or facing danger. When new group member, Yell, plays, things go badly wrong, l...
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All the Cursed Creatures
Name: Clare Wilkins
25 March 2026;Genre: Fantasy
There are new revelations aplenty in All the Cursed Creatures, the third book in this fast-paced supernatural detective series. Sage and Oren have fallen out after Sage discovers that everyone knew about her hybrid status, but her. Casting Oren as chief villain and eag...
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Gone for Good: The addictive missing girl thriller where everyone has something to hide
Name: Rachel Bolton
13 March 2026;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
A novel by Sarah Crossan cannot be anything other than brilliant and true to form, her latest verse novel is another triumph. Connie is angry and confused when she is dragged from her bed in the middle of the night and taken to some sort of correctional institution in a remote...
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They Call Her Regret
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2026;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Simone loves Hallowe'en and enjoys throwing the best spooky party each year. Seeking a suitably eerie location, she discovers a cabin in the woods by Yearwood Lake. Known locally as Doll's Head Lake, the area is reputedly haunted by a dark spectre called Regret. Keen to distract herself from t...
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Gone for Good
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2026;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Taken from her home in the middle of the night, Connie finds herself at Silver Lake Academy, a high-security facility for 'troubled' teens. Although deeply upset by the loss of her mother and struggling to cope, Connie still cannot believe that her family would choose to send her to this remot...
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Day of Now
Name: Clare Wilkins
04 March 2026;Genre: Dystopian
Dayna, the titular character of this dystopian novel, is a seemingly fearless teenager thrown into the chaos of a post-apocalyptic world. Deadly spores released in the 'Before' world have devastated the country. Children are rare and when found, valued as guinea pigs for experimental vaccines....
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Control Alter Delete
Name: Jacqueline Harris
04 March 2026;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Hal lives in the perfect world of 2.0, the world created by Francis Knox. She has everything she could want, except none of it is real. Then she gets the chance to enter the Knox Cup and become the ultimate champion of the gaming world. But this is a place where nothing is quite as it seems an...
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Shorelines
Name: Louisa Farrow
18 February 2026;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Shorelines, a melancholy and thought-provoking verse novel, follows the story of Muireann, the mermaid, grieving for her lost twin and full of naïve curiosity about humans. To save her ocean home where fish stocks are dwindling and the merfolk are beginning to starve, she make...
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Kill Me Now
Name: Clare Wilkins
06 February 2026;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
The school crime thriller genre remains an ever-popular popular field and Helen Price's spiky new addition will certainly please fans of Holly Jackson, M A Bennett et al. Set in a rigidly religious catholic school in deeply pious Langbury, Kill Me Now follows...
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The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar
Name: Clare Wilkins
19 January 2026;Genre: LBGTQ+
Riven with self-doubt, anger and Catholic guilt, Cesar finds it impossible to deal with his feelings for ex-boyfriend Jamal whilst still holding close to his family's ideals. Throw in being bipolar and bisexual, and life seems impossibly complicated. In an effort to get a hold on his fr...
