Title // Still Life With TornadoAuthor // A.S. KingPublication Date // 2017 Publisher // Text PublishingGenre // YA, Contemporary-SurrealismRating // ✭✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.Sixteen-year-old Sarah can’t draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has ‘done the art.’ She thinks she’s having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into …
Book Review | The Naming of Tishkin Silk
Title // The Naming of Tishkin Silk Author // Glenda MillardPublication Date // 2003Publisher // ABC BooksGenre // Junior Fiction, AustralianRating // ✭✭✭✭✭synopsis.Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the …
Author Guest Post | See You In September
The Legend of the Phantom CanoeBy Charity NormanSee You in September is set on the shores of Lake Tarawera, in New Zealand’s North Island. It’s a haunting area with a dramatic history, but perhaps the strangest story of all is the legend of the phantom canoe. In Victorian times, the area was popular with …
Book Review | Queens of Geek
Title // Queens of GeekAuthor // Jen WildePublication Date // May 2017Publisher // Swoon ReadsGenre // #loveOzYA, LGBTQIA+Rating // ✭✭✭✭✭synopsis.When BFFs Charlie, Taylor and Jamie go to SupaCon, they know it’s going to be a blast. What they don’t expect is for it to change their lives forever.Charlie likes to stand out. SupaCon is her chance …
Book Review | The Dark Lake
Title // The Dark LakeAuthor // Sarah BaileyPublication Date // May 24th 2017Publisher // Allen and UnwinGenre // CrimePrice // AUD $32.99Rating // ✭✭✭✭synopsis.A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode. A brooding, suspenseful and explosive debut that will grip you from the first page to the last. There were a …
Book Review | Lies
Title // LiesAuthor // T.M. LoganPublication Date // May 24th 2017Publisher // Bonnier (twenty7)Genre // Psychological ThrillerPrice // AUD $29.99Rating // ✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.What if your whole life was based on lies? A gripping new psychological thriller of secrets and revenge. When Joe Lynch stumbles across his wife driving into a hotel car park while she's supposed to …
Book Review | The Bone Sparrow
Title // The Bone SparrowAuthor // Zana Fraillon Publication Date // 2016Publisher // Lothian Children’s BookGenre // Young AdultRating // ✭✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.Sometimes, at night, the dirt outside turns into a beautiful ocean. As red as the sun and as deep as the sky. I lie in my bed, Queeny's feet pushing up against my cheek, and listen to …
Book Review | Girl In Between
Title // Girl In BetweenAuthor // Anna DanielsPublication Date // May 2017Publisher // Allen and Unwin (Arena)Genre // Popular FictionPrice // AUD $29.99Rating // ✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.Lucy Crighton has just moved in with some gregarious housemates called Brian and Denise . . . who are her parents. She's also the proud mother of Glenda, her beloved 10-year-old . …
Book Review | Alice: the Wanderland Chronicles
Title // Alice: the Wanderland ChroniclesAuthor // J.M. SullivanPublication Date // 16 May 2017Publisher // Pen Name PublishingGenre // Young Adult, Sci-Fi & FantasyRating // ✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.“Always protect your queen.”Ever since the outbreak of the Plague, life hasn’t been easy, and for seventeen-year-old Alice Carroll, it just got worse. Her sister, Dinah, has contracted the ‘un-deadly’ Momerath Virus …
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Book Review | Release
Title // ReleaseAuthor // Patrick NessPublication Date // May 2017Publisher // Walker BooksGenre // Young AdultRating // ✭✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.Inspired by Mrs Dalloway and Judy Blume's Forever, Release is one day in the life of Adam Thorn, 17. It's a big day. Things go wrong. It's intense, and all the while, weirdness approaches...Adam Thorn is having what will turn out to …
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