Young Adult
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Review: Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
We the Legion, We the Light and burning bright against the night Aurora Rising is dangerously dark, action packed, and an addictive kick off to Kaufman & Kristoff’s Trilogy Aurora Cycle. For someone that is a virgin to this dynamic duo’s writing – I was blown away into outer space. I’m going to miss the draft – intriguing opening line, who doesn’t love a bit of angst on the opening page? This awesome tale reminds me of a Guardians of the Galaxy X Battlestar Galactica – Be still my geeky heart! Tyler Jones – Alpha of the squad, general hotbod and all-round good guy. Aurora Lie-Jin O’ Malley – Frozen…
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Review: My Name is Leon by Kit De Waal
If you want a read that pulls at the heartstrings, makes you weep and hug your own children that wee bit tighter then this a book for you. This book highlights the impact, adult’s behaviour and actions affect and change a child’s psyche – for better or worse. During these years’ children develop a sense of the person they are going to become, they learn appropriate behaviour, empathy and appropriate boundaries. They learn the social skills that will carry them through life. This book examines the implications of parental abuse, racial undertones and a little boy who is struggling to find his place in the world. The cover of the…
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Review: I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory
I received a free copy of this book courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. It is always a welcome surprise when you receive a book especially in the YA category that blows you away both for the storytelling and the absolute importance that story carries. Where on earth was this story when I was an impressionable 17-year-old girl? This is the story I needed but I’m so very grateful that young adults have this. If you’re a parent of a teenage girl BUY THIS BOOK NOW for them. I hold your heart is the first novel of Karen Gregory’s that I…
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Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
Ellery and her twin brother Ezra arrive in Echo Ridge after their mother, Sadie has a mental breakdown. Their introduction to the town is somewhat foreboding of what is to come after discovering a dead body on the road. Ellery discovers that the town is drowning in secrets, several murders and disappearances of girls. The one things in common is that they are all homecoming queens or in the present day scenario, voting into homecoming court. Ellery is especially interested in the dark history of the town as her Mother’s twin sister, Sarah disappeared around twenty years ago in similar suspicious circumstances. Lacey is the next victim who is found…
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Stain by A.G Howard
Once upon a nightmare, a princess was born in the kingdom of perpetual daylight-a fine-boned babe who killed her queenly mother upon her entrance to the world A.G. Howard I thought this was a very good take on the regular fairytale story with some dark gothic drama that had you questioning whether everything was as it first seemed. Lyra (the heroine) is a princess whom is named in a prophecy to be married to the Prince Vesper. The Prophecy foretells the two coming together to repair the two broken kingdoms and bringing balance once more to the Day kingdom, Eldoria and the night Kingdom, Nazereth. Lyra, doesnt have the capability…
