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Book Review- When Dimple Met Rishi
Title: When Dimple Met Rishi Author: Sandhya Menon Published: 30th May 2017 Pages: 380 Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary, Diverse Rating: 4/5 stars Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending…
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Book Review- Gilded Cage
Title: Gilded Cage Author: Vic James Published: 14th Feb 2017 Pages: 368 Genre: YA, Fantasy Series: Dark Gifts #1 Rating: 4/5 stars In modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power—and you. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters—the magical elite—you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you’re old, and you’ll never get through them. Do them young, and you’ll never get over them.This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. In its glittering milieu move the all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys. The families have only one thing in common: Each has three children. But their destinies entwine when one family enters the…
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Book Review- Flamingo Boy
Title: Flamingo Boy Author: Michael Morpurgo Published: 19th February 2018 Pages: 352 Genre: Children’s, Historical Fiction Rating: 4/5 A stunning new classic from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo for readers of 9+, in the vein of PRIVATE PEACEFUL and THE BUTTERFLY LIONThis is a landmark new novel form the nation’s favourite storyteller, set in the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2. There, a young autistic boy lives on his parents’ farm among the salt flats, and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn’t understand: but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine, and music too: and every…
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Book Review- Savage Island
Title: Savage Island Author: Bryony Pearce Published: 5th April 2018 Pages: 416 Genre: YA, Horror Rating: 5/5 stars When reclusive millionaire Marcus Gold announces that he’s going to be staging an “Iron Teen” competition on his private island in the Outer Hebrides, teenagers Ben, Lizzie, Will, Grady and Carmen sign up – the prize is £1 million pounds … each. But when the competition begins, the group begin to regret their decision. Other teams are hunting their competitors and attacking them for body parts. Can the friends stick together under such extreme pressure to survive? When lives are at stake, you find out who you can really trust… -Goodreads My…
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Book Review- The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
Title: The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Author: Ruth Hogan Published: 3rd May 2018 Pages: 293 Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Rating: 5/5 Masha is drowning.Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, her life has been forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago.Unable to let go of her grief, she finds solace in the silent company of the souls of her local Victorian cemetery and at the town’s lido, where she seeks refuge underwater – safe from the noise and the pain.But a chance encounter with two extraordinary women – the fabulous and wise Kitty Muriel, a convent girl-turned-magician’s wife-turned-seventy-something-roller-disco-fanatic, and the mysterious Sally Red Shoes, a bag…