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Title: WonderlandAuthor: Juno DawsonEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 A retelling of Alice in Wonderland with a transgender narrator and a cast of rich kids enjoying sex, drugs, and murder at London’s most exclusive party. Alice is trying to fit in at her very expensive girls’ school. She’s the first transgender girl at St Agnes, and outside the …
Title: BearmouthAuthor: Liz HyderEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 Newt is one of the Bearmouth boys, living and working deep underground to mine coal for the Master. It’s hard to make a living in the mine – Newt has to pay for boots and candles, and send money home to his mother. He can’t afford the cost of …
Title: Steel Tide (Seafire #2)Author: Natalie C ParkerEdition: KindleRating: 5/5 I’m so pleased I headed straight to the second book in the Seafire trilogy as soon as I finished Book One. After a brief pause for Caledonia to recover from the events of the final pages, the story is off and running again, and I …
Title: SeafireAuthor: Natalie C ParkerEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 How has it taken me so long to find this book? Pirates, rebels, sea battles and survival with an awesome all-female crew – I loved it. Caledonia Styx is the leader of a crew of girls who fight back against Aric Athair’s ruthless pirates. It feels as if …
Title: Loki: Where Mischief LiesAuthor: Mackenzi LeeEdition: HardbackRating: 4/5 Who was Loki before he became the character we know (and love!) from the Marvel Avengers films? What were his formative experiences? Mackenzi Lee gets to play with the family dynamics of a younger Loki, Thor, Frigga, and Odin in Where Mischief Lies, and it is …
Title: The Upper WorldAuthor: Femi FadugbaEdition: KindleRating: 3/5 The Upper World is an intriguing time travel story that doesn’t quite stick its landing. The book combines ancient philosophy with hardcore maths and physics to explore the relationship between matter, energy, and perception. It takes the Socratic idea of the ‘Upper World’ – a place beyond …
Title: Good Girl, Bad BloodAuthor: Holly JacksonEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 I’ve been looking forward to reading the sequel to ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’. More Pip Fitz-Amobi – the brave, intelligent schoolgirl and accidental detective. More of her wonderful family and friends. More of Ravi, her ally in the first book, and more of the …
Title: BurnAuthor: Patrick NessEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 How could I turn down the chance to read a book that brings together dragons, prophecies, and assassins in 1950s America? I was very excited to read the new novel from Patrick Ness, and I’m delighted to say that he didn’t let me down. Sarah Dewhurst lives with her …
Title: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate StoriesAuthor: Holly Black and Rovina CaiEdition: HardbackRating: 4/5 There is something extraordinarily exciting about turning the first page of a story book with pictures. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an illustrated children’s story, or this gorgeous collection of tales from Elfhame – beautiful artwork with beautiful …
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Title: Eve of ManAuthor: Giovanna and Tom FletcherEdition: PaperbackRating: 3/5 This is a YA dystopia with an interesting premise. For sixteen years, Eve has been protected. Raised by a team of older women, she is the last girl on earth – and the only woman of childbearing age. No one knows why girls stopped being …