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Review: The House of Hidden Wonders by Sharon Gosling
The House of Hidden Wonders by Sharon Gosling
Genre: Middle Grade, Historical, Mystery
Published by: Little Tiger
Pages: 288
Release date: 02/04/2020
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: Zinnie and her sisters live in the murky tunnels beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town. They keep out of the way of the authorities and remain undetected. Until, that is, rumours of a ghost bring unwanted visitors into the caverns they call home. Among them, a young Arthur Conan Doyle, keen to investigate, and MacDuff, the shady owner of Edinburgh’s newest attraction, the House of Wonders.Caught up in a world of intrigue and adventure, Zinnie seeks answers. But how can she discover what secrets lie in the House of Wonders while also protecting the sisters she holds so dear?
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Review: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
Series: Crescent City #1
Genre: Fantasy
Published by: Bloomsbury
Pages: 799
Release date: 03/03/2020
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. Every night is a party and Bryce is going to savour all the pleasures Lunathion – also known as Crescent City – has to offer. But then a brutal murder shakes the very foundations of the city, and brings Bryce’s world crashing down.Two years later, Bryce still haunts the city’s most notorious nightclubs – but seeking only oblivion now. Then the murderer attacks again. And when an infamous Fallen angel, Hunt Athalar, is assigned to watch her every footstep, Bryce knows she can’t forget any longer.
As Bryce and Hunt fight to unravel the mystery, and their own dark pasts, the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the deepest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir …
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Blog Tour Review: Rebel With A Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring
Hey guys. Today is my stop on the blog tour for Rebel With A Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring, and I am bringing you my review of this book. Enjoy.
Rebel With A Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Firefly Press
Pages: 233
Release date: 02/04/2020
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52914309-rebel-with-a-cupcake
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rebel-Cupcake-Anna-Mainwaring-ebook/dp/B07WDFM66Q
Summary: Jesobel Jones is bold and beautiful. The daughter of a hand model and a washed-up rock star, she sees no need to apologise for her rambling house, her imperfect family, her single status … or her weight. Jess makes her own cupcakes and she eats them, too. That is, until Own Clothes Day when a wardrobe malfunction leaves Jess exposed, and a mean girl calling her the one thing that’s never bothered her before: fat.
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Review: Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) by L.C. Rosen
Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) by L.C. Rosen
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Penguin
Pages: 337
Release date: 07/02/2019
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Summary: My first time getting it in the butt was kind of weird. I think it’s going to be weird for everyone’s first time, though.Meet Jack Rothman. He’s seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys – sometimes all at the same time. His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine. But who cares? Like Jack always says, ‘it could be worse’.
He doesn’t actually expect that to come true.
But after Jack starts writing an online sex advice column, the mysterious love letters he’s been getting take a turn for the creepy. Jack’s secret admirer knows everything: where he’s hanging out, who he’s sleeping with, who his mum is dating. They claim they love Jack, but not his unashamedly queer lifestyle. They need him to curb his sexuality, or they’ll force him.
As the pressure mounts, Jack must unmask his stalker before their obsession becomes genuinely dangerous…
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Review: Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
Series: The Last Hours #1
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Published by: Walker Books
Pages: 617
Release date: 03/03/2020
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. James and Lucie Herondale, children of the famous Will and Tessa, have grown up in an idyll with their loving friends and family, listening to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London…and so does a remorseless and inescapable plague.James Herondale longs for a great love, and thinks he has found it in the beautiful, mysterious Grace Blackthorn. Cordelia Carstairs is desperate to become a hero, save her family from ruin, and keep her secret love for James hidden. When disaster strikes the Shadowhunters, James, Cordelia and their friends are plunged into a wild adventure which will reveal dark and incredible powers, and the true cruel price of being a hero…and falling in love.
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Review: A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven
A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven
Series: Izzy O’Neill #2 (book 1 review)
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Electric Monkey
Pages: 334
Release date: 07/03/2019
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: It’s been two months since a leaked explicit photo got Izzy involved in a political sex scandal – and the aftershock is far from over. The Bitches Bite Back movement is gathering momentum as a forum for teenage feminists, and when a girl at another school has a sex tape shared online, once again Izzy leads the charge against the slut-shamer. This time she wants to change the state law on revenge porn.
Izzy and her best friend Ajita are as hilarious as ever, using comedy to fight back against whatever the world throws at them, but Izzy is still reeling from her slut-shaming ordeal, feeling angry beyond belief and wondering – can they really make a change?
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Blog Tour Review: Fierce, Fearless and Free by Lari Don
Fierce, Fearless and Free by Lari Don
Genre: Middle Grade
Published by: Bloomsbury
Pages: 141
Release date: 05/03/2020
Rating: ★★★★☆
Summary: A brilliant, inclusive collection of traditional tales from around the world featuring amazing women and girls. Once upon a time, there was a handsome prince who – no, that’s not right! Once upon a time, there were strong, fierce women who plotted, schemed, took action, showed kindness, used magic and trickery, and made their own destiny. From the long-haired Petrosinella who escaped the tower and broke the spell that the ogress had cast over her and Nana Miriam who beat a hippo using politeness and magic, to Kate Crackernuts who tried to save her stepsister from her mother’s curse, these are stories of girls doing it for themselves! With stories drawn from all over the world, including China, Scotland, Armenia, Italy and Nigeria, Lari Don presents heroine stories that don’t leave girls sitting around waiting to be saved by the handsome prince.
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ARC Review: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Viking
Pages: 368
Release date: 27/02/2020
Rating: ★★★★☆
Summary: One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles. There are 187 passengers aboard: among them a Wall Street millionaire; a young woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet; a soldier returning from Afghanistan; and two beleaguered parents moving across the country with their adolescent sons. When the plane suddenly crashes in a field in Colorado, the younger of these boys, 12-year-old Edward Adler, is the sole survivor.Dear Edward recounts the stories of the passengers aboard that flight as it hurtles toward its fateful end, and depicts Edward’s life in the crash’s aftermath as he tries to make sense of the loss of his family, the strangeness of his sudden fame, and the meaning of his survival. As Edward comes of age against the backdrop of sudden tragedy, he must confront one of life’s most profound questions: how do we make the most of the time we are given?’
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Review: Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Simon and Schuster
Pages: 436
Release date: 04/02/2020
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state candidate – as long as he’s behind the scenes. There’s no way he’d ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes…until he meets Maya.Maya Rehman’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is cancelled, her parents are separating and now her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing – with some awkward guy she hardly knows …
Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world. After all, the polls are getting closer – and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural crush of the century is another thing entirely.
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ARC Review: Pixie Pushes On by Tamara Bundy
Pixie Pushes On by Tamara Bundy
Genre: Historical
Published by: Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 240
Release date: 14/01/2020
Rating: ★★★★☆
Summary: Pixie’s defenses are up, and it’s no wonder. She’s been uprooted, the chickens seem to have it in for her, and now her beloved sister, Charlotte, has been stricken with polio and whisked away into quarantine. So it’s not surprising Pixie lashes out. But her habit of making snap judgments — and giving her classmates nicknames like “Rotten Ricky” and “Big-Mouth Berta” — hasn’t won her any friends. At least life on the farm is getting better with the delivery of its newest resident–a runt baby lamb. Raising Buster takes patience and understanding–and this slowing down helps Pixie put things in better perspective. So too does paying attention to her neighbors, and finding that with the war on she’s not the only one missing someone. As Pixie pushes past her own pain to become a bigger person, she’s finally able to make friends; and to laugh about the fact that it is in places where she least expected it.
