Young Adult: Fool Me Twice by Mandy Hubbard

Mackenzie has spent the last year trying to get over her break up with Landon. They had spent a magical summer together but when school started up again he broke her heart and returned to his ex. Now it’s summer again both Mack and Landon are working at the Serenity Ranch and Spa. Mack is determined …

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Young Adult: As Red As Blood by Salla Simukka

“The streets of Finland are frozen and white with snow. And nothing is as red against snow as blood . . .” It has been a while since I read a book which has been translated from another language to English. Maybe that’s why I was so excited to read As Red as Blood, the first …

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Young Adult: Writing Clementine by Kate Gordon

Clementine Darcy is just starting year 9 and finds herself a little disappointed by Ms Hiller’s philosophy class. Expecting to be devouring great works by influential thinkers, Clementine doesn’t see the point in being told to write whatever comes to her head. But as the year goes on Clementine finds herself sharing the highs and lows …

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New Adult: Sometimes it Lasts by Abbi Glines

Sometimes it Lasts is a continuation of Cage and Eva’s story which began in While it Lasts. It’s not essential to read the other book before this one but I think it would help. Going into this book blindly meant that I didn’t know about previous relationships or certain elements in characters pasts which might …

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Young Adult: The Minnow by Diana Sweeney

When a flood took the lives of half the town, Tom (also known as Holly the tom boy) lost her parents and sister. With the only family Tom had left being her elderly grandmother in a nursing home, Tom gets taken in by one of her father’s friends, Bill. It’s an odd situation and one which …

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Erotica: The Professional by Kresley Cole

Natalie Porter, a post-grad student studying for a PhD in history, never expected for her search for her biological parents to get her involved with the Russian mafiya. But when her birth father, Pavel Kovalev, learns of her existence, he sends his most trusted enforcer to protect her and bring her back to her homeland. …

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Young Adult: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

When Laurel’s sister May died, Laurel felt like she had no one left. Her mother moved to California to some kind of retreat and she hasn’t had a real conversation with her father in a long time. When her English teacher sets the class an assignment of writing a letter to someone who has died, Laurel chooses …

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New Adult Review: Rush Too Far by Abbi Glines

I was excited to read this book. I’d not read an Abbi Glines novel. I met her a few months ago and she was so incredibly lovely. Very sweet and down to earth. This book is the story of Rush and Blaire and contains the events of Fallen Too Far. The difference is Fallen Too …

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Demigods, Monsters and Weapons of Mythological Destruction: A Review of the Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

I read the first Percy Jackson novel (The Lightning Thief) and I wasn’t the biggest fan. But after re-watching the films a few weeks ago, I was suddenly quite sad that they weren’t planning on adapting the rest of the series for the screen. There was so much which was left unsaid and mysteries that …

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And the Final Rose Goes too…. A Review of The One by Kiera Cass

This review will contains spoilers for the first two books (The Selection & The Elite) in the series but not for The One.   In a journey which started with 35 girls all competing for a chance to win the prince, it is now down to just four. America is still struggling with her feelings …

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