Young Adult: Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon

Catherine Hunter has lived her life in luxury. Fine clothes, exotic cuisine and the best of what life has to offer. But when her father promises her hand in marriage to the son of a business colleague, the fifteen-year-old decides it is time to take matters into her own hands. No more being the trophy …

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Tour stop: REV Girl by Leigh Hutton (Q&A and Review)

I’m delighted to invite you all to read my stop on the REV Girl blog tour! Leigh Hutton, the author and real life Rev Girl has kindly taken the time to answer my questions about writing, reading and motorcycle racing. I’ve also shared my review at the end of this post.   Rev Girl is …

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A Supernatural Mystery in 1920s New York: A Review of The Diviners by Libba Bray

Banished from Zenith, Ohio for a party trick gone wrong, Evie O’Neill intends to enjoy her punishment in New York. Staying with her Uncle Will, the curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition and the Occult (known to by most as The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies), and his assistant Jericho, Evie manages to find …

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Disruption by Jessica Shirvington: A Review

I didn’t expect to get drawn into Maggie Steven’s life as quickly as I did. I read the blurb and thought Disruption sounded like my kind of book but wasn’t quite prepared to have found a book that I didn’t want to put down. Maggie Stevens is on a mission to save her father from …

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Down the Rabbithole: A Review of Splintered by AG Howard

The females in Alyssa Gardner’s family line are cursed. It’s been this way ever since Alyssa’s great-great-great-grandmother Alice Liddell went down the rabbit hole. Alice’s adventures may have inspired Lewis Carroll’s classic novel but it also caused strangeness and mental instability for every female born to Alice’s family line ever since. Alyssa knows about Alice and …

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The Secret Diamond Sisters by Michelle Madow: A Review

Life without a father has been difficult for Savannah, Courtney and Peyton. Their mother has her own problems and the three sisters barely manage to make ends meet. That is until their father comes back into their lives after being absent for over fifteen years. And whilst they may have wondered about their dad their whole …

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Enmity by EJ Andrews: A Review

There’s a lot I loved about Emnity. It’s set in an exciting world where most of the population was wiped out sixty years ago. Only the strong survive and those remaining are at war with each other. The characters are interesting. Nate and Hermia are taken and forced to train in a secret compound. Along …

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan: A Review

I’ve seen the movies and loved them so I thought it was about time I saw where everything began for Percy, Grover and Annabeth. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan tells the story of how twelve year old Percy Jackson discovers he’s a demigod. Son of Poseidon, Percy has never quite been like other kids. …

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Book Review: The Firebird Mystery by Darrell Pitt

My Review: What do you get when you combine a consulting detective, an orphaned young acrobat, airships, and a mystery which left unsolved might be the end of the world as we know it? You get The Firebird Mystery, the first novel in a steampunk Sherlock Holmes-esque series featuring Jack Mason. Jack gets the chance to leave …

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Book Review: Nymph by Tonya Alexandra

Please feel free to check out my interview with Tonya as a part of the Nymph blog tour hosted by Walker Books Australia! My Review: Merope has lived for thousands of years as a star nymph in the land of gods, Olympus. But life isn’t always easy for the faded star nymph. She’s been exiled …

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