Young Adult Book Reviews

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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Name: Sue Wilsher
10 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Ximena Reale is determined to become a Cazadoro at La Academia de los Cazadores, but despite being a star student, her prospects are tarnished by her heritage. Five years ago, her parents were executed for being pirates and now her older sister's behaviour is casting a shadow on Ximena's risin...

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Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

The Rose Bargain is a thrilling and atmospheric dark fantasy set in 1848 England, where high society's yearly tradition of bargaining with an immortal fae Queen takes a sinister twist. This captivating novel explores themes of ambition, sacrific...

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Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

364 days, that's how long Dania has been in a hell-hole of a prison for a crime she didn't commit. She is counting down her days until she can exact revenge on Mazin, the boy responsible for her downfall, the boy she once loved - and still can't forget. However, first she has to escape and tha...

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