Title // Holding Up the UniverseAuthor // Jennifer NivenPublication Month // October 2016 Publisher // Knopf Books for Young ReadersGenre // Young Adult, Contemporarysynopsis.Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her …
Book Review | How Santa Really Works
Title // How Santa Really WorksAuthor // Alan SnowPublication Month // October 2014Publisher // Athaneum Books for Young ReadersGenre // Picturebook, Children’s, Christmassynopsis.Top-secret information on Santa (Shhhhhhhh...) Intrepid Santa-tracker Alan Snow has traveled up through Lapland to the far reaches of the Arctic Circle in search of the ever-elusive Mr. Claus. There, beneath the polar cap, deep …
Book Review | Trapped In Silver
Title // Trapped In Silver (Eldryn Chronicles #1)Author // Emily SowdenPublication Month // February 2017Publisher // OfTomesGenre // Fantasy, Young Adultsynopsis.Courage comes from a shadowed place in our hearts; a blurred line that straddles love and sheer stupidity.To seventeen-year-old Ava, wild woodcats, hungry stragglers, and simple-minded townsfolk are the evils she’s grown accustomed to. But when …
Book Review | The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
Title // The Fifth Avenue Artists SocietyAuthor // Joy CallawayPublication Month // December, 2016Publisher // Allen & UnwinAustralian RRP // $29.99 AUDGenre // Historical Fictionsynopsis.Devastated after being jilted by the boy next door, Ginny Loftin turns to writing in an attempt to rewrite their story with a better ending. But it is among the painters, musicians, …
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Book Review | Black Rock White City
synopsis.Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love.During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan’s cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cleaned away dislodge the …
Book Review | The Devil’s Prayer
Title // The Devil’s PrayerAuthor // Luke GraciasPublication Month // August 26, 2016Publisher // Australian eBook PublisherGenre // Historical Fiction, Horrorsynopsis.A nun commits suicide in front of thousands in Spain. In Australia, Siobhan Russo recognises that nun as her mother, Denise Russo, who disappeared six years ago. In search of answers, Siobhan travels to the isolated convent …
Book Review | World After
synopsis.In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.Penryn drives through the streets …
Book Review | Collide
synopsis.This must be a dream after all. I pinch myself."Ouch."Why the hell aren't I waking up?After mysteriously waking up on a different planet, not knowing how she got there or even her name, K - as she becomes known - finds herself in a fascinating world much different to the one she can barely remember. …
Book Review | Firstlife
synopsis.ONE CHOICE.TWO REALMS.NO SECOND CHANCE.Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live—after she dies.There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: …
Book Review | The Purgatorium
synopsis.Seventeen year-old Daphne Janus is floored when her parents agree to let her accompany her best friend to a getaway resort on an island off the coast of California. She doesn't know her parents have sent her to the Purgatorium as a last-ditch effort to save their child.Her best friend and life-long neighbor takes her …
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