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Mini Reviews #3

Mini Reviews #3The books which I shall be giving a little mini review on today are:- Entangled by Cat Clarke- The Boy In The Smoke (Shades of London #0.5) by Maureen Johnson

Entangled by Cat ClarkeGenres: Young Adult, Contemporary.Published: January 6 2011Pages: 372 pages (Paperback)(Quercus)Read: October 2015Rating: 3 Stars
Book 46/60 - 2015 Goodreads Reading Challenge
This book was a reread for me. Unfortunately the second time round I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first time. I rated...

Book Review - Unbecoming by Jenny Downham

UnbecomingAuthor: Jenny DownhamGenres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction. Published: September 3 2015Pages: 437 pages (Paperback) (David Flicking Books)Read: October 2015Rating: 5 Stars



Three women - three secrets - one heart-stopping story.Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal.Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her.Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after...

Book Review - Asking For It by Louise O' Neill

Asking For ItAuthor: Louise O' NeillGenres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Feminism, Mental Health. Published: September 3 2015Pages: 352 pages (Paperback) (Quercus Publishing UK)Read: October 2015Rating: 5 Stars
TRIGGER WARNING - RAPE


It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wak...

Wishlist Wednesday #11

Wishlist Wednesday #11
Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Pen to Paper. This meme is where you showcase one book that is on your wishlist and that you can't wait to get off your wishlist and into your hands.

On my Wishlist Wednesday today is....


Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible...

Book Review - The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

The Wolf WilderAuthor: Katherine RundellGenres: Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure.  Published: September 9 2015Pages: 319 pages (Paperback) (Bloomsbury Children's)Read: October 2015Rating: 4 Stars


Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training....

Wishlist Wednesday #10

Wishlist Wednesday #10
Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Pen to Paper. This meme is where you showcase one book that is on your wishlist and that you can't wait to get off your wishlist and into your hands.

On my Wishlist Wednesday today is....


The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
In a world where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, an evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. The future of the empire rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his young...

Top Ten Tuesday #23

Top Ten Tuesday #23 Top Ten Debut Authors Who Have Me Looking Forward To Their Sophomore Novel.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and consists of them picking a topic each week for us bloggers to list our Top Ten.

These are debuts books by debut authors that I just loved and cannot wait for their next novel to release!

1. Leslye Walton
I loved Leslye Walton's The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender and cannot wait to hear about her next book a...

October 2015

October 2015 Book Haul / Wrap UpOctober was just a great month in general, what with all the spookiness, great book releases and of course I went to my first ever book convention! Yay! So let me tell you all about my October!
October 2015 Book HaulThis month I bought quite a few books but as well as that I received some free books from the DeptCon1 YA Convention too!



Asking For It by Louise O' NeillUnbecoming by Jenny DownhamThe Accident Season by Moira Fowley DoyleThe Lost And The Found by Cat...

Best of the Bunch #5 - October 2015

Best of the Bunch #5 - October 2015


Best of the Bunch is a monthly meme hosted over at A Cocoon of Books. What it is is that you give the Best of the Bunch award to one book which you have read in that month.
I only some really amazing books did month! I mean, super amazing. I read a total of 7 books and 4 of them I rated 5 Stars, those four were:
- The Tailor by Leigh Bardugo (Short Novella)
- The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich (Halloween Read)
- Asking For It by Louise O' Neill (Issue Book)
-...

Book Review - The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

The Dead HouseAuthor: Dawn KurtagichGenres: Young Adult, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Paranormal.  Published: August 6 2015Pages: 440 pages (Paperback) (Orion Children's Books)Read: October 2015Rating: 5 Stars


Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary entries, interview transcripts, film footage transcripts and medical notes. Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High burned down. Three people were kil...