Has to Be Love by Jolene Perry Once upon a time, Clara was a normal girl; she went to school, she went to church, she fell in love with her best friend. That was all before she was involved in…
Book Review: ‘The Accident Season’ by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much when I first started reading Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s The Accident Season. The plot brings up images of a really klutzy family, not some dark curse placed upon a family with secrets. To say that The Accident Season was a…
Book Review: ‘Red Girl, Blue Boy’ by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Bloomsbury’s contemporary If Only romance line is very hit or miss. Red Girl, Blue Boy completely missed the mark; not only that, but it obliterated anything that bore even a slight resemblance to the mark, leaving cheese and shudders in its wake.…
Book Review: ‘Everything, Everything’ by Nicola Yoon
Everything, everything about Everything, Everything (excuse the pun!) could have been tremendous. However, the execution of the plot (in particular that twist towards the end of the book), the use of Olly primarily as a plot device, and the over…
Book Review: ‘A Madness So Discreet’ by Mindy McGinnis
What I love most about A Madness So Discreet is its attempt to be unlike any other young adult novel or any historical fiction piece set in the 1800’s. However this same attempt to be unique also is the novel’s…
Read of the Week: ‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simsion
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion Meet Don Tillman, socially awkward connoisseur and professor at large. In search of the perfect mate, he designs a test to find the right match before meeting Rosie, someone completely unsuitable in all senses…
Read of the Week: ‘Solitaire’ by Alice Oseman
The web is full of bloggers and vloggers alike, so it isn’t uncommon to see novels that center what happens when things in the virtual world go wrong. Enter Solitaire, the newest – and most secretive – blog to pop…