Young Adult Book Reviews
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One Last Breath
Name: Rachel Bolton
21 February 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
One Last Breath is fantastic. I couldn't read it fast enough! What begins as a teenage romance soon becomes something more sinister in the heat of a sweltering Florida summer. It's 20 years since the community of Mount Orange suffered the murder of two teenage girls. The murde...
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When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Name: Erin Quigley
16 February 2024;Genre: Family & Home
When We become Ours, an unarguably groundbreaking anthology, contains a wide range of poignant and evocative stories in a variety of genres written about adopted characters by adoptee authors for adoptee readers. The editors, Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, tell us there is n...
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The Invocations
Name: Linda Brown
15 February 2024;Genre: Supernatural
FIVE WOMEN ARE DEAD. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. Police are utterly stumped. In a world where only women can use magic and the men who know about it seek to eradicate them, three damaged young women - one cursed, one hunted, one out for revenge - will team up to track down and t...
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A Cure Ever After
Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 February 2024;Genre: Fantasy
A Cure Ever After is the sequel to Once Upon a Fever (shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize) and features some of the same characters, but also introduces some new ones. The story starts a few years after the end o...
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Goddess Crown
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 February 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Kalothia has been raised in hiding. Her guardians a loyal aunt and tutor, and a series of bodyguards who watch her every step. But she plans an audacious escape. Aware of her origins as a minor royal and desperate for news of the mother and father so knows so little about, she plans to seek an...
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Lies We Sing to the Sea
Name: Eileen Armstrong
08 February 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Reimaginings of the Greek myths are currently enjoying an explosion in popularity, fuelled in part by Booktok. This debut novel, Lies We Sing to the Sea, is a dazzling example, inspired by, but not a retelling of, the fate of Penelope's hanged maids from Homer's The Odyssey.</...
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Proud
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 February 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself" [Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, 1892]. Proud is a triumph. It is a timely LGBTQ+ anthology which celebrates and sings of diversity playing on the readers' senses like a beautiful concerto. The collection, selected by bestselling author Jun...
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The Blind Bowman 1: Shadow of the Wolf
Name: Melissa Chard
01 February 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
It's always a thrill to find a new writer who can deliver a story with panache and integrity. In Tim Hall's debut, a retelling of the Robin Hood myth (published by David Fickling Books), you also have a talent for writing that is sure to see this book on plenty of award shortlists in the comin...
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Postcards From Valhalla
Name: Stephen Leitch
30 January 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Visions, Vikings, myths, mystery and adventure all combine in this thrilling novel set in the Shetland Isles by master of teen noire and macabre Danny Weston. 15 year old Viggo's plans for the week reached as far as seeing the next Thor movie with his friends. But his...
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Little Bang
Name: Tanja Jennings
22 January 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
Mel and Sid connect when sparks ignite at New Year with a little bang. But the universe has plans that will change everything. As her entertaining debut novel Flying Tips for Flightless Birds proved, Kelly Mc Caughrain has an ability to wr...
