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Review | The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Read more: Review | The Language of Thorns by Leigh BardugoTitle: The Language of Thorns (2017) Author: Leigh Bardugo Illustrator: Sara Kipin Publisher: Orion Children’s Group Read: 27th – 28th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and…
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Review | Princess Diaries: Take Two by Meg Cabot
Read more: Review | Princess Diaries: Take Two by Meg CabotTitle: Princess Diaries: Take Two (2001) Author: Meg Cabot Narrator: Anne Hathaway Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books Read: 10th – 11th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that she’s a princess – and heir to the throne of Genovia! But…
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Review | The Fandom by Anna Day
Read more: Review | The Fandom by Anna DayTitle: The Fandom (2018) Author: Anna Day Publisher: Chicken House Read: 12th – 15th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; dystopia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars “No story is worth dying for … is it? Violet and her friends love being part of the fandom for The Gallows Dance. But at Comic-Con, they’re somehow catapulted into the story…
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Review | Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Read more: Review | Exit West by Mohsin HamidTitle: Exit West (2017) Author: Mohsin Hamid Read: 2nd – 7th September 2017 Genre: fiction; magical realism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing – to fall…
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Review | The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Read more: Review | The Hating Game by Sally ThorneTitle: The Hating Game (2016) Author: Sally Thorne Read: 15th September 2017 Genre: contemporary; romance Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. 2) A person’s undoing 3) Joshua Templeman Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And…
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Review | Sally Heathcote, Suffragette
Read more: Review | Sally Heathcote, SuffragetteTitle: Sally Heathcote: Suffragette (2014) Author: Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot, Kate Charlesworth Read: 21st December 2015 Genre: graphic novel; historical fiction; feminism Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is an admirable attempt to make what is already a pretty interesting social and historical movement even more interesting and accessible to a wider audience…
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Review: Viper Wine
Read more: Review: Viper WineTitle: Viper Wine (2014) Author: Hermione Eyre Read: 11th-20th September Genre: historical fiction (with plenty of glorious anachronism) Rating: 5/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon Set in 1632 England, Viper Wine follows Venetia Stanley, a noblewoman once considered a beauty by society who is now less that impressed with what the ravages of time do to said infamous beauty.…
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Review: The Princess Diaries
Read more: Review: The Princess DiariesTitle: The Princess Diaries (2000) Author: Meg Cabot Read: 16th July Genre: Young-adult; humour; romance Rating: 4/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon “Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.” Mia Thermopolis is just your average fourteen-year old girl, worried that she’s ugly, worried that her hair is dorky,…
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Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Read more: Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the UniverseTitle: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz Read: 27th-28th June Genre: Young-adult; contemporary; LGBTQ Rating: 4.5/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon I open this review with a confession: I underlined so many quotes in this book. I’m generally not a person who underlines or annotates novels for the simple…
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Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Read more: Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini TaylorTitle: Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2011) Author: Laini Taylor Read: 17th-24th April 2015 Pages: 420 Genre: YA Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy, Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Links: Goodreads / Amazon All I had heard about Daughter of Smoke and Bone before reading it for myself was that it was beautifully written…
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