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Tag: book review

  • All The Rage – Courtney Summers

    Title: All The Rage Author: Courtney Summers Published: 2016 Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28320374-all-the-rage “”My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl’s sport, but it’s not. It’s armour.” Kellan Turner is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. But when she speaks up, she is branded a…

  • Lies We Tell Ourselves – Robin Talley

    Fun fact: this was one of the book club picks for the Spinster Book Club that I am a member of! It’s run by Lydia at Something LikeLydia and the goodreads link is here if it sounds like something that interests you! 🙂 Title: Lies We Tell Ourselves Author: Robin Talley Published: 2014 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22710376-lies-we-tell-ourselves Plot: It’s 1959.…

  • The Gap of Time – Jeanette Winterson.

    Title: The Gap of Time Author: Jeanette Winterson Year Published: 2015 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25214259-the-gap-of-time Synopsis: New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how…

  • Afterworlds – Scott Westerfeld

    Title: Afterworlds Author: Scott Westerfeld Year Published: 2014 Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20759444-afterworlds Synopsis “Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she’s made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned and…

  • #SpinsterBooks | Asking For It – Louise O’Neill + We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler.

    Hello all! Sorry it’s been a while but I am going to make writing a priority from now on! In the meantime I joined a book club on Goodreads! It is the Spinster Book Club which is run by Lydia over at Something Like Lydia on Youtube (her channel is HERE!). Inspired by The Spinster…

  • The Lost and The Found – Cat Clarke.

    Title: The Lost and The Found Author: Cat Clarke Year Published: 2015 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20685157-the-lost-and-the-found Synopsis: “LOST. When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister. Faith’s childhood was dominated by Laurel’s disappearance – from her parents’ broken marriage and the constant media attention to dealing with so-called friends who only ever wanted…

  • Am I Normal Yet? – Holly Bourne.

    Title: Am I Normal Yet? Author: Holly Bourne Year Published: 2015 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23592235-am-i-normal-yet Synopsis: “All Evie wants is to be normal. She’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the girl-who-went-crazy. She’s even going to parties and making friends. There’s only one thing left to tick off her…

  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks – E. Lockhart.

    Title: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks Author: E. Lockhart Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22907596-the-disreputable-history-of-frankie-landau-banks Source: Owned physical copy Published: November 2014. Synopsis: “Fifteen-year-old Frankie Landau-Banks has grown up a lot over the summer. She’s no longer daddy’s little girl – and almost immediately after starting the new semester at her highly prestigious school, she bags goofy-but-gorgeous Matthew…

  • Say Her Name – James Dawson

    Title: Say Her Name Author: Juno Dawson Published: 2014 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18621200-say-her-name Rating: 4/5 Source: Owned physical copy! “Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine agree to…

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Title: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Published: 1886 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15994498-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde Rating: 2/5 Source: Owned physical! Plot: “Published as a shilling shocker, Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with damnable young man Edward Hyde; the hunt…