Category: Book Review
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Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones is a story about two young adults, Beyah and Samson, from completely different backgrounds who meet on summer break and embark on a tentative romance. Don’t be put off by the age of the main characters, this isn’t your typical young adult book, it’s much grittier and more suited to an adult audience.…
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Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron
Catch Your Death takes a classic Agatha Christie-style country house murder and turns everything on its head. Three 17 year old girls find themselves stranded in an isolated mansion on the night their reluctant hosts, the rich and powerful Vanforte family, are planning a very special dinner. When Emily Vanforte is poisoned the girls have…
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Medusa by Jessie Burton
Medusa by Jessie Burton is a fast-paced Greek Mythology reimaging following our main character Medusa and her head of snakes who ends up exiled to an island to live her life alone until Perseus, a handsome boy turns up to enter her world. Love does start to blossom, but Medusa knows if she tells the…
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Fir by Sharon Gosling
Fir by Sharon Gosling was visually brilliant and deliciously creepy; I really didn’t want things to end. One thing that really stood out to me about the story is the main character’s perspective. We as the reader don’t know the character’s name, how old they are, if they are a boy or a girl. My…
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Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin. But then…
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The Sleepy Pebble and other stories, by Professor Alice Gregory and Christy Kirkpatrick
The Sleepy Pebble and other stories is a collection of short stories which are designed to be calming at bedtime.
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Sabotage On The Solar Express by M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman
This review was written by Zach, aged 10, he wrote: This book is part of an adventure series inspired by real train journeys. It sees the return of the Reza family from ‘Kidnap On The California Comet’. I like it because the mystery carries on for most of the book and is revealed right at…
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Slow Horses by Mick Herron
I LOVED this book! The characters are well-rounded and in-depth, with back stories delivered naturally rather than forced, the settings are vivid if squalid, and the plot is makes it hard to put down. This is the first story in the ‘Slough House’ series, which focusses on a MI5 department made up of failures, lead…
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A Disaster in Three Acts by Kelsey Rodkey
This book follows Saine Sinclair as she tries to make a documentary to get into University. She is forced to take the grudging help of her former best friend, now enemy, and gets carried away with the quality of the film, ignoring the quality of her friendships. Whilst I would love to take part in…
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Crave by Tracy Wolff
At first this book felt like it was a bit of a cliché; the protagonist Grace is at a school of supernatural beings, and she has no idea she’s surround by dragons, witches, and vampires. Grace then immediately falls for the brooding, “bad guy” vampire called Jaxon. After initial misgivings though, I was drawn into…