Genre: Adult, Literary Fiction Release Date: 10th March 2020 Publisher: William Morrow Add on: The Storygraph – Goodreads Buy from: Waterstones – Blackwells – Book Depository – Amazon Russell has the kind of writing that I just clicked with straight away. From the first page, I was in, I was sold, I was ready to… Read More My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell Review
Release Date: 18th February 2020 Publisher: Berkley Genre: Adult Contemporary Pages: 352 Author Website: Kimmery Martin’s Website Add on: The Storygraph, Goodreads Buy from: Blackwell’s – Waterstones – Book Depository – Amazon Georgia Brown’s profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked men, but her romantic prospects have fizzled. The most important person in her life… Read More The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin Review
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: 15th April 2018 Pages: 501 Author Website: Claire Legrand’s Website Add on: The StoryGraph – Goodreads Buy from: Waterstones – Book Depository – Amazon When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens:… Read More Furyborn by Claire Legrand Review
Genre: YA Dystopian Publisher: Walker Books Release Date: 2nd October 2019 Pages: 390 Author Website: Neal Shusterman Add on: The StoryGraph – Goodreads Buy From: Book Depository – Amazon – Waterstones When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival, The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going… Read More Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman Review
Genre: Adult Fantasy Publisher: Orbit Release Date: 4th August 2015 Pages: 512 Author Website: N.K. Jemisin’s Website Add on: The StoryGraph – Goodreads Buy From: Book Depository – Amazon – Waterstones This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home… Read More The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Review
Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Hot Key Books Release Date: 7th May 2019 Pages: 400 Author Website: Elizabeth Acevedo’s Website Add on: The Storygraph – Goodreads Buy From: Book Depository – Amazon – Waterstones With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must… Read More With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Review
Genre: Adult Dystopia Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: 21st June 2012 Pages: 369 On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are… Read More The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Review
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Margaret K. McElderry Books) Release Date: 4th June 2019 Pages: 456 All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper… Read More Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Review
Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House Release Date: August 29th 2006 Pages: 460 In a rush? Scroll to the bottom for my snapshot thoughts! After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbling on the wild, blue pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a… Read More Life of Pi by Yann Martel Review
I read pretty widely across target audience and genre, but I went on a little YA contemporary splurge recently, and I loved all of them. So let’s dive in! Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson This book follows a black teenage girl named Jade, who feels she has to take every opportunity given to her,… Read More YA Contemporary: Mini Reviews
In The Shadows of Stories 