Category: Young Adult
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Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Thorns and Roses
I was recommended this book by one of the girls at the youth group I run on a Monday night. She’s only 12 so I had been putting off reading the book as I thought it might be a bit juvenile, but she’d mentioned it so many times that I thought I might as well
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Harry Potter and the Four Week Re-Read
So at the beginning of last month, I realised that I was dreadfully behind on my reading challenge for this year – I wanted to read 52 books but I was stuck at 32. I knew I needed to get a few books under my belt, and what better way than with a Harry Potter
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Dave Eggers – The Circle
I won’t lie, I decided to read this book because I saw the film on Netflix and that it stars Emma Watson (I love her), and I didn’t want to watch the film before reading the book. I have mixed feelings now that I’ve finished. The concept was great and I was quite excited about
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Evelyn Skye – The Crown’s Game
Another book downloaded through Libby – I’m not sure what drew me to the book other than the mention of magic and the fact that it sounded a bit different to recent fantasy books I’ve read. The premise of the book sounded great, two young enchanters who would have to fight against each other to become
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Marieke Nijkamp – This is Where It Ends
I went into this book with a certain amount of trepidation as I made the mistake of reading the reviews before I started and there were quite a few terrible reviews. But I’d already checked the book out of the virtual library and it was less than 300 pages, so I figured I might as
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Sarah Crossan – One
So Cecilia Ahern’s review on the front of the paperback cover of this book says ‘One broke my heart and mended it’, but that’s a lie. One broke my heart and then stomped it into the ground. Heartbreakingly beautiful is how I would describe this book, narrated by Grace. You see, Grace and Tippi are
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Mechthild Gläser – The Book Jumper
I ‘rediscovered’ our local library a few weeks ago when I was trying to find some ways for my dad to get ebooks of the latest books without having to pay for them, and discovered that with a library membership, you can loan ebooks in the same way as normal books using an app called
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Deirdre Riordan Hall – Sugar
I don’t really know what drew me to choose this book from Amazon – I know that it was free to read, but I think as usual it was probably the cover. ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ sounds like an admirable thing to say, but when there’s hundreds of thousands of books to
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J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
I know, I know. I’ve read this book so many times. And with the amount of books on my to-be-read pile, I should probably make a dent in that rather than re-reading my favourites again – but it’s HARRY POTTER. And when I saw that it was free on Amazon Prime reading, I just couldn’t
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Emily R. King – The Hundredth Queen
I’ve been really slack at this whole book review thing recently. I finished this book over a month ago, but I just haven’t been able to get the motivation to log on and write up my review. That’s no reflection on this book, which was absolutely great. As it’s been over a month since I
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Jay Asher – 13 Reasons Why
Urgh. Can I start a book review with ‘urgh’? I guess I just did. I’ve been waiting to read this book ever since I saw the Netflix show announced, and I am utterly disappointed. But also a little relieved that I won’t be wasting my time watching 13 hours of TV. I don’t really know
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Nicola Yoon – Everything Everything
This book was SUPERB! I sat down to read this book yesterday afternoon and didn’t get back up again until I’d finished it. It was that good. I just couldn’t stop turning the pages even for a second. At the start of the book, we meet Madeleine. She hasn’t left her house for as long as
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Bella Forrest – The Gender Secret
I was in two minds about the first book in this series, it had good moments and bad moments, but the shock ending left me wanting to read more. Unfortunately, I’m a bit disappointed that I did. As expected Viggo and Violet are reunited again, but then we spend the whole book going back and
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Bella Forrest – The Gender Game
I thought the concept of this book was a very intriguing one. Two societies separated by a river: one ruled by women, one ruled by men. To be a man in Matrus is to have no rights or responsibilities, and to be a woman in Patrus is possibly worse. You are the property of your
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 1: Cosmic Avengers
I wasn’t sure if I could include this on my 2017 reading challenge, but it appears on Goodreads, so I’m going to say yes. It was my first ever comic book (at the grand old age of 27), and I had a lot of fun reading it. I just saw it on my kindle available
Louise Douglas 