2021
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Book Review- Amari and the Night Brothers
Title: Amari and the Night BrothersAuthor: B.B. AlstonPublished: 21st JanuaryPublisher: Egmont UKGenre: Middle-grade, Magic, Sci-fiTWs: Bullying, racism, Rating: 5/5 stars Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother’s old closet. A briefcase meant for her eyes only. There was far more to Quinton, it seems, than she ever…
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Favourite 2020 Middle Grade Reads
Hello, welcome to another 2020 wrap up post! In this post I’m going to tell you about my favourite middle grade reads of 2020. This was a really tough list to compile as I read so many amazing middle grade novels in 2020!! Here we go! Orphans of the Tide by Strain Murray Starting off my list, this is a new favourite book for sure! Set in a city that is slowly being swallowed by the sea, a boy arrives out the body of a whale, bringing magic and adventure with him! The main character is an inventor, and I loved every page! Buy from Waterstones here A Kind of…
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Blog Tour | Bear Head Book Review
Title: Bear Head Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Published: 7th January 2021 Publisher: Head of Zeus Genre: Sci-fi, Rating: 4/5 stars Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity, a civilization where humans can live in peace, lord and master of all they survey. But this isn’t Space City from those old science-fiction books. We live in Hell City, built into and from a huge subcontinent-sized crater. There’s a big silk canopy over it, feeding out atmosphere as we generate it, little by little, until we can breathe the air. It’s a perfect place to live, if you actually want to live on Mars. I guess at some point I had…
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Favourite 2020 YA Reads!
Hello everyone, welcome to one of my posts wrapping up the hell-fire year that was 2020! One positive from the year was I read the most books I have ever read in a year before! So settle in for a long post about my favourite 2020 YA reads! Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn One of my favourite reads of 2020, this book is set during the Revolution in France and follows a group of characters as they try to rescue a girl from the deadliest prison in Paris!! With amazing LGBTQ+ representation, and such awesome characters, you need a copy of this!! Buy from Waterstones here The Loop by Ben…
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My January TBR
Hello, a new month means a new TBR pile to read! I don’t always set myself TBRs, it depends how many review copies I have to read, and how organised I’m being!! This month I have a lot of review copies to read, so I have made a plan! Check out everything I’m hoping to read this month in my January TBR. This Is Not The Jess Show by Anna Carey This is a YA thriller published on the 2nd of February which I received from the publisher! It's is packed with 90s references and is described as being perfect for fans of Black Mirror I am very intrigued by…