Young Adult Book Reviews

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...

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Name: Linda Brown
18 April 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Captain of Fates is a spin-off adventure from the wonderful Twin Crowns series and in this standalone novel, author Katherine Webber has done it again. Her words are like the mermaids song that she describes… they will simpl...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
18 April 2025;

Genre: Dystopian

Feldspar awaits execution. As shield to an ascendant, a member of the Hive's royal family, she should have died when her charge, Euphemie, was murdered, but she survived. Expecting no clemency, Feldspar is surprised when a member of the royal family, Niko, comes to her defence and starts inves...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
16 April 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Stuck on a train full of younger children being evacuated, there are four who do not want to leave the city. Gradually, each comes to realise that they could simply get up and leave the carriage - and so they do. First to go is the Gremlin, followed by Lawrence, Olive and Franklin. Linked by t...

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Name: Linda Brown
08 April 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Eden Victoria's debut novel Close Protection promises suspense, romance, and a hint of danger, but unfortunately, it doesn't fully deliver on those fronts. The story follows Daphne Green, an heiress to the Greenway Discoveries fortune, whose life of privilege is interrupted af...

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Name: Clair Bossons
04 April 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Orla has always felt like a sidekick rather than a hero. She quietly works hard to support her mum look after their blended family and money is tight. When she is offered the chance of a scholarship at a theatre school, she's given the opportunity to pursue her dream - but is...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
04 April 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Honora Holtzfall - known as Nora - has always considered her place in the succession of the most powerful family in all of Walstad as secure. However, when her mother, the current Holtzfall Heiress, is found dead, suddenly the chance to control the wealth and the magic of the country is open t...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
04 April 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

As The Kerbs, a four piece band, are on the verge of success, lead singer, Drew, and his long term girlfriend, Ruby, have to decide whether to make their relationship public or to continue in secret. Wanting to maintain their privacy, it seems like an easy decision to make. However, fa...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
14 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

With graduation looming and the prospect of leaving home provoking both fear and excitement, school president and all round Grade A student Grace Barbour decides a day of skipping school is just the tonic she and her friends need. The only problems being the schism between her...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
13 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has crafted the main character, Sydney Wells, as a pragmatic young person coming to terms with terminal illness, only for an unexpected emergency...

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