Young Adult Book Reviews
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Splinters
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 June 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
With her best friend moving to Scotland, Jean is only consoled by the thought of spending the summer with her first boyfriend, Leon. However, when he tells her that he is off to America for three weeks and her parents announce the family are moving house, her holiday does not go to plan and th...
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The Love Interest
Name: Ruth Cornish
21 June 2024;Genre: Romance & Relationships
This fantastic book is a fun, exciting take on the superhero genre, perfect for a YA audience and older secondary school students. The Love Interest offers action from the start with the main characters Jenna and brand new superhero Blaze meeting as a result of a potentially d...
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Sleep Like Death
Name: Eileen Armstrong
20 June 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Cinderella is Dead, the clever and compelling feminist reinvention of the classic fairytale, was an instant hit. In this exciting new reimagining, Sleep Like Death, BookTok sensation Bayron turns her attention to another classic fairyta...
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Sisters of Sword and Shadow
Name: Lorraine Ansell
18 June 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Cass leads a sheltered life living on her family farm, working hard with her older sister Mary but also able to roam free and enjoy the countryside. Soon it is time for her sister to be married to a man chosen by their father, something Cass fears for herself, and on the morning of the wedding...
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The Shadows Between Us
Name: Linda Brown
12 June 2024;Genre: Fantasy
The Shadows Between Us is the gripping YA standalone fantasy novel from the wonderful Tricia Levenseller. Once again, as with all her books, this one will not disappoint. Alessandra, an ambitious young woman who knows what she wants and doesn’t care how she gets it, has...
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Girl, Missing: The top-ten bestselling thriller
Name: Ellie Age 12
07 June 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
This book has got me hooked on the Girl, Missing series. Me and my friend exchange books a lot as we have similar taste in books and this book is the one we talk about the most. Love this book - can't wait to get more books from Sophie McKenzie.
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The Love Interest
Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2024;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Helen Comerford's debut novel The Love Interest is set in 2024 and provides us with a unique take on the superhero genre. I found myself hooked from the very first page. The dystopian world where some people have superpowers and there are some mutant EV creatures is very well...
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This Book Won't Burn
Name: Eileen Armstrong
03 June 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
18 year old Noor's life is turned upside down when her father walks out of their Chicago home unexpectedly to start a new life in London. Distraught, her mother moves Noor and her younger sister to the tiny town of Bayberry, where Noor becomes the Muslim new girl in an almost exclusively white...
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These Stolen Lives
Name: Ruth Cornish
30 May 2024;Genre: Dystopian
Sharada Keat's debut dystopian YA novel These Stolen Lives is a complex narrative about living in a world following the invasion of the tyrannical Skol people. Friends and 'repayers' Mora, a Crozoni, and Kit, a Makaian, toil to pay for the first pre-colonised years of their li...
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All the Hidden Monsters
Name: Clare Wilkins
22 May 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
All the Hidden Monsters is a perfect, twisty, supernatural thriller that you simply won't be able to put down. Oren works for the Arcanum, a warlock institution that upholds law and order in the supernatural world. Werewolf Sage is an aspiring detective, perpetually rejected b...
