Young Adult Book Reviews

Name: Grace Age 15
26 November 2023;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

This book had me addicted. You Better Watch Out is about a girl who gets given random gifts on the count-down to Christmas form an assumed stalker. The plot line develops throughout the book and on every page you find yourself finding more out about a character. Anyone who wan...

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Name: L Mayhew
24 November 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Laura Bates has taken our Reading Ambassadors on a captivating journey through a world of courage, strength, and the enduring bonds of sisterhood in her latest novel, Sisters of Sword and Shadow. This feminist fantasy novel seamlessly blends action, adventure, and themes of em...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
20 November 2023;

Genre: Supernatural

15-year-old Ned works as a gravedigger alongside his grandfather, Pa, who is sexton of the parish. When graves are found to have been disturbed, Ned and Pa are worried that body snatchers may be at work, putting their jobs in jeopardy. Obedience Wellrest, known as Bede, lives with her father i...

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Name: Linda Brown
20 November 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Author Isabel Ibanez must be an alchemist herself as this book will keep you spellbound and enchanted until the 'I didn't see that coming' cliff hanger of an ending... In the glittering society of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, Inez Olivera has everything, except the one thing she rea...

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Name: Clair Bossons
20 November 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Finding Wonder is a beautifully written, truly gripping mystery story which draws on Lauren St John's love of horses. The front cover and chapter illustrations are stunning and will really add appeal to those that enjoy reading horse stories. The main character Roo is left orp...

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Name: Lorraine
17 November 2023;

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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Name: Clair Bossons
17 November 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

The Night Hunt is the first book that I have read by this author and now I can't wait to read her others! The Night Hunt is a standalone dark fantasy romance novel. Alexandra Christo has created a fantasy world of gods and monsters where some of the monsters are living among u...

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Name: Linda Brown
17 November 2023;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Live like a Goddess contains short stories from different cultures around the world, celebrating tales and myths of daring and brave goddesses. These twenty-one legendary ladies were tenacious, smart and strong. Meet...  Osun, the Yoruba goddess of love who refuses to be dismi...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
10 November 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Skulduggery Pleasant is back in this new adventure of mystery, murder, mayhem and a little magic - all in graphic novel format for the first time. From the moment bare boned detective Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain drive into the small Irish town of Termoncara, they realise that people...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
09 November 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Bad Magic (Skulduggery Pleasant) is an action-packed graphic fantasy set in Ireland, where the townsfolk are experiencing strange, supernatural events. At the centre is Jamie, who has become reclusive following the death of his best friend and whose dreams are full of the terr...

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