The Silent stars go by- Sally Nicholls

Broke my heart over and over a million times how beautiful and heart wrenching this tale is. The interwar years is a particularly fascinating era for me, but is usually explored looking through the luxurious and Americanised lens of Jazz and Flappers or come the Thirties, Depression and Misery, the immediate post-war period and its …

Murder in Midwinter – Fleur Hitchcock

Each time I discover another book from Fleur Hitchcock I find that I become an even bigger fan of her style and approach to creating modern adventure thrillers bringing the adventures and danger of classic tales bang up to date, to be accessible and resonating with modern children as much as the classics offered their …

Rules For Vanishing – Kate Alice Marshall

Ok, I like to think that I’m actually pretty good with horror, I admittedly don’t enjoy zombie or those possessed doll/orphan/foster child type films but vampires/monsters, psychological horror, ghost stories, urban legend type horrors have always been fun and not scary for me.... until now. Kate Alice Marshall you shook me with this book because …

Chinglish- Sue Cheung

My goodness, this is such a different and interesting teen book, perfectly placed in that awkward inbetweeny years of not really knowing oneself but hoping for meaning. Taking the diary format as an outlet of adolescent frustrations and aspirations it will remind adult readers of the younger diaries of Adrian Mole, and younger readers of …

The Girl With Space in Her Heart -Lara Williamson

This is not quite what I was expecting and I think this added to my enjoyment, I cared enough about the characters to laugh and cry and particular points and was swept into the drama of it all. I’m not usually one for contemporary unless it has a twist, especially of fantasy, but this has …

The Princess and the Shoe- Caryl Hart & Sarah Warburton

You may have heard me rant about my abhorrence of the Surrendered Cinderella trope before and my frustration that Littlefae got suckered into it despite my best efforts. Now thanks to Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton’s Princess series I have even more in my arsenal to turn the tide and prevent Tinyfae from falling into …

#20BooksOfSummer 7: The Unicorn Quest- Kamilla Benko

#20BooksOfSummer is an annual event hosted by Cathy Brown of 746 Books and runs from 3rd June until 3rd September With the aim to clearing a target of 5, 10 or 20 books from your TBR but with very relaxed and fun rules. Here is my joining post & List! Let’s face it, Unicorns, portal …