Double Review: After + After We Collided by Anna Todd

Ever since I can remember I’ve has a soft spot for boy bands. Growing up reading N*Sync and Backstreet Boys fanfiction, boy band fanfics are one of my favourite guilty pleasures. Needless to say I was beyond excited to read Anna Todd’s After series which began as a One Direction fanfic. Now revised, expanded and …

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(Sweet Juliet and her): Bad Romeo by Leisa Rayven

This story may have started out its life as fan fiction but do not let that turn you off – Bad Romeo is a captivating novel about first love, heartbreak and redemption. Told in a mixture of present day interludes and flash backs from the past, Bad Romeo manages to perfectly capture Cassie Taylor and Ethan Holt’s romantic history. …

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The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham

As a Veronica Mars fan for over a decade, I was delighted to hear they were releasing a series of novels continuing her adventures. Set after the film (which was set ten years after the TV show), The Thousand Dollar Tan Line follows Veronica Mars now that she’s back in Neptune to stay. When a college …

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(From Geek to Chic): Geek Girl by Holly Smale

Harriet Manners is not one the cool kids. Her propensity for reading a lot and habit of sprouting random facts has her labelled a geek. She’s bullied by the most popular girl in school, stalked by one of the oddest boys she knows but throughout it all she has her best friend Nat by her side. …

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(Dragons Walk Amongst Us): Talon by Julie Kagawa

Mythological creatures, shape shifters, contemporary setting and organizations who aren’t quite what they seem. These are a few of my favourite things and Julie Kagawa has managed to incorporate all of them flawlessly into Talon, the first book of her new YA fantasy series of the same name. I’ve always been a huge fan of dragons. When …

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(Violet is the Jewel in Someones Crown…): The Jewel by Amy Ewing

Violet Lasting has spent the last four years waiting for this day. The day when she is auctioned off as a surrogate. Trapped in a society where the upper circles are infertile, girls are taken from their families and trained up as the perfect vessels to carry the wealthy’s next generation into the world. On …

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(It is the Perfect Murder… or is it?): The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard

Ava, Parker, Julie, Mackenzie and Caitlin appear to have nothing in common. But there is one thing they can all agree on – their hatred for Beacon Height’s golden boy, Nolan Hotchkiss. He has ruined their lives in one way or another and they put a plan in action to make him pay. The perfect crime. …

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Book Review: Bound by Alan Baxter

Alex Caine makes his living as a very successful cage fighter. The people in his industry may be slightly shady but Alex is a man who knows how to handle himself. When the mysterious Patrick Welby approaches Alex and helps him out of a spot of bother, it starts a chain of events which turns Alex’s life upside down. …

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(Fantastic Fantasy): Sabriel by Garth Nix

When Sabriel can’t contact her father, she knows something is wrong. Leaving the relative safety of Ancelstierre and venturing through the wall into the Old Kingdom is dangerous but Sabriel knows the risks. Not having been to the Old Kingdom since she was a young child, now a decade older and wiser, Sabriel has to magical …

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Q&A with Amy Ewing – author of The Jewel

I’m so excited to be able to share with all of you my Q&A with Amy Ewing – author of The Jewel. You can find a complete tour schedule for the Walker Books Australia blog tour at the bottom of this post. The Jewel is an exciting novel about a society where girls are sold …

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