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Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear / Blog Tour Review & Guest Post

July 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

Hello everyone, today I’m pleased to provide you all with a review and extract of the fantastic novel Sweet Little Lies by Cat Frear. In the extract Cat discusses the tough female detective surviving in a sexist man’s world and whether this really exists in 2017, I would love to hear your thoughts too. I hope you’ll enjoy!

Sweet Little Lies, set in contemporary London but with flashbacks to late 1990s Ireland, sees police detective Cat Kinsella investigating the murder of Alice Lapaine. Alice’s body is discovered near the pub Cat’s father runs and when evidence links Alice to a girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years previously – a girl Cat’s father denied knowing even though Cat knows he lied – the secrets and resentments of the past threaten to spill out.

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Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined by Danielle- Younge-Ullman

June 26, 2017 Leave a Comment

Thank you to Scholastic for sending me this ARC for an honest review.

Ingrid has made a deal with her mother: she gets to go to the school of her choice as long as she completes a three-week wilderness programme. But when Ingrid arrives, she quickly realizes there has been a terrible mistake: there will be no marshmallows or cabins here. Instead, her group will embark on a torturous trek, with almost no guidance from the two counsellors and supplied with only the things they can carry. On top of this, the other teen participants are “at risk youth”, a motley crew of screw-ups, lunatics and delinquents. But as the laborious days go by, and as memories of her complicated past come flooding back, Ingrid must confront the question of whether she shares more in common with these troubled teens than she’s willing to admit.

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Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

June 21, 2017 Comment : 1

Thank you to Hot Key Books for sending me this ARC for an honest review.

The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.

Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.
Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.
An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two.
A bad romance, or maybe three.
Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains.
A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.
A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.

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S.T.A.G.S. by M. A. Bennett

June 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

Thank you to Hot Key Books for sending me this ARC copy for an honest review.

Nine students. Three blood sports. One deadly weekend.

A twisting thriller for fans of Looking for Alaska and The Hunger Games.

It is the autumn term and Greer MacDonald is struggling to settle into the sixth form at the exclusive St. Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as S.T.A.G.S. Just when she despairs of making friends Greer receives a mysterious invitation with three words embossed upon on it: huntin’ shootin’ fishin’. When Greer learns that the invitation is to spend the half term weekend at the country manor of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular and wealthy boy at S.T.A.G.S., she is as surprised as she is flattered.

But when Greer joins the other chosen few at the ancient and sprawling Longcross Hall, she realises that Henry’s parents are not at home; the only adults present are a cohort of eerily compliant servants. The students are at the mercy of their capricious host, and, over the next three days, as the three blood sports – hunting, shooting and fishing – become increasingly dark and twisted, Greer comes to the horrifying realisation that those being hunted are not wild game, but the very misfits Henry has brought with him from school…

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The Graces by Laure Eve

June 16, 2017 Comment : 1

Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different. All I had to do was show them that person was me. Like everyone else in her town, River is obsessed with the Graces, attracted by their glamour and apparent ability to weave magic. But are they really what they seem? And are they more dangerous than they let on?

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Supergirl, Volume 1: Reign Of The Cyborg Super-Men by Steve Orlando

May 24, 2017 Comment : 1

Thank you to DC Comics for sending me a copy of this graphic novel/comic via Netgalley for an honest review.

A part of DC Universe: Rebirth!

Supergirl moves to National City! As Kara Danvers, average American teenager and high school student, Supergirl must balance her life as a superhero with her new life on Earth. But some demons from her Kryptonian past are coming back to haunt her, and Kara will find herself face-to-face with her father: the sinister Cyborg Superman!

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Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell

May 9, 2017 Leave a Comment

Thank you to Hot Key Books for sending me this book for an honest review.

Kellen’s dreams of becoming a powerful mage like his father are shattered after a failed magical duel results in the complete loss of his abilities. When other young mages begin to suffer the same fate, Kellen is accused of unleashing a magical curse on his own clan and is forced to flee with the help of a mysterious foreign woman who may in fact be a spy in service to an enemy country. Unsure of who to trust, Kellen struggles to learn how to survive in a dangerous world without his magic even as he seeks out the true source of the curse. But when Kellen uncovers a conspiracy hatched by members of his own clan seeking to take power, he races back to his city in a desperate bid to outwit the mages arrayed against him before they can destroy his family.

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The Shadow Queen by Anne O’Brien Blog Tour / Extract & Review

May 5, 2017 Leave a Comment

Thank you Bethan James at ED Public Relations for inviting me on another brilliant historical fiction novel from Anne O’Brien- Enjoy my review and an extract just for you!

1340. Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, learns that she is to marry William Montagu, heir to the Earldom of Salisbury, an alliance that will redeem their family after her father’s execution for treason. But Joan cannot marry her childhood friend Will. At just 12 years old, she has fallen in love with, and secretly married Sir Thomas Holland, a humble knight who is currently fighting in France with the King. Furious, her mother and the Montagu family convince Joan to marry Will, despite her feelings of guilt. But when Sir Thomas returns, he is determined to win back his wife, no matter what. Joan must quickly learn to navigate the dangerous and seductive world of the royal court, with its treachery, subterfuge, and power-hungry families…

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The Adventures of The Owl and The Pussycat by Coral Rumble Blog Tour / Review

May 2, 2017 Comment : 1

Thank you to Faye Rogers for inviting me on another brilliant blog tour, I think this book is a real treasure that youngsters will adore.

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea, in a box on the living room floor. They sailed away for a year and a day and these are the things that they saw…Join two curious children on their quirky adventure, loosely based on the classic Edward Lear poem, The Owl and the Pussycat.

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Term Two, Year Two / Open University

April 28, 2017 Comments : 2

Gosh I had nearly forgotten what my blog looked like. Hello! I’m back, and I’m SO thrilled to be. My mind has been going insane from not feeling creative or in any frame of mind to be blogging these past couple of months and I’ve hated every second of it, its awful not to feel the need to write a blog post and share things with my faithful readers because you really are the most encouraging bunch!

Anyhow, things as you can imagine have been pretty hectic these past few months. I think the last time I properly posted was my January wrap-up (I hope!)? It was after my birthday and it was all cute etc, and well its all been going on since then. I’ll definitely update you all with life in general as soon as I can but as you’re about to find out, university has taken over my life…