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Mini book reviews: Twice Shy and Well Matched
Hello bookworms!! Today’s Monday Mini’s are mini book reviews for Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle and Well Matched by Jen DeLuca. Please let me know if you enjoy this type of review better than the more structured, longer ones, because I’m having a much better time keeping up with books I’ve read in this format!! But if the older format…
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Mini book reviews: The Unexpected Everything and The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
Hello bookworms!! Today’s Monday Mini’s are mini book reviews for The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson and The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black. The first two books that I read this year!! (Look at me being all on top of things…)
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Mini book review: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Hello bookworms!! Today’s Monday Mini’s is a mini book review for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. This is a modern-day graphic novel retelling of Little Women, by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo.
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Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone
So, you know how I identify as a fantasy reader, but in actual fact I read more romance than anything else... Well, Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone has actually prompted the biggest surge in fantasy books on my TBR than anything else in the past two years. And it's the perfect read for October.
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Monday Minis: Soulbound series by Hailey Turner
Hello bookworms!! Welcome (officially) to Monday Mini’s, where today I want to talk about the Soulbound series by Hailey Turner. In general, I will (hopefully) be posting some mini reviews for either books in a series, or stand-alones all by the same author, or… somehow otherwise related. Or maybe I’ll just write some mini book reviews. Who knows?! Honestly, I…
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Instant Karma – Marissa Meyer
Book review: Instant Karma by Marissa MeyerRelease date: 10 November 2020Goodreads linkBook Depository linkPan MacMillan link for Aussie’sRating Instant Karma – Marissa Meyer blurb: Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgement on the residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with…
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Where I’m Home – Erin Bowlen
Book review: Where I’m Home by Erin BowlenRelease date: 3 June 2020Goodreads linkBook Depository linkRating Where I’m Home (The Aoife O’Reilly series #2) by Erin Bowlen blurb: It’s been three years since Aoife O’Reilly decided to leave her life in Ballyclara behind. With a new career and a new man in her life, Aoife is seemingly at peace with her…
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Boyfriend Material – Alexis Hall
Book review: Boyfriend Material by Alexis HallRelease date: 7 July 2020Goodreads linkBook Depository linkRating Boyfriend Material blurb: Wanted:One (fake) boyfriendPractically perfect in every way Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad’s making…
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Loveless – Alice Oseman
Book review: Loveless by Alice Oseman Release date: 5 August 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link HarperCollins Australia link Dymocks link Rating Loveless by Alice Oseman blurb: It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean? Georgia has never been in…
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Date Me, Bryson Keller – Kevin van Whye
Book review: Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye Release date: 2 July 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Penguin purchase link for Aussie’s Rating Date Me, Bryson Keller – Kevin van Whye blurb: Everyone at Fairvale Academy knows Bryson Keller, the super-hot soccer captain who doesn’t believe in high-school relationships. They also know about the dare Bryson accepted…
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Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) – L. C. Rosen
Release date: 30 October 2018 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) blurb: Jack Rothman is seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys – sometimes all at the same time. His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine, but who cares? Like Jack always says, “it could be worse”.…
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Hawk – James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Release date: 6 July 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Aussie purchase links Rating Hawk (Hawk #1) blurb: Where is Maximum Ride? Maximum Ride lost her fight to save the world. But from the ashes of the old world a phoenix has risen… She calls herself Hawk. Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her parents are,…
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Camp – L. C. Rosen
Release date: 2 July 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Aussie purchase links Rating Camp blurb: Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It’s where he met his best friends. It’s where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it’s where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim – who’s only…
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Her Royal Highness – Rachel Hawkins
Release date: 7 May 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Her Royal Highness (Royals #2) blurb: Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best-friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply for a scholarship to a boarding school … in the rolling Highlands of Scotland. The only…
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The Night Country – Melissa Albert
Release date: 9 January 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Night Country (The Hazel Wood #2) blurb: Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland – the strange, pitch-dark fairy-tale world she was born into – she has washed up in New York City, determined to build a new future for herself. But when…
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The Switch – Beth O’Leary
Release date: 28 April 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Switch blurb: On a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She’d like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn’t offer many…
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The Map From Here to There – Emery Lord
Release date: 5 March 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Map From Here to There (The Start of Me and You, #2) blurb: Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has everything she needs: ? Great friends (core four forever) ? A boyfriend who totally gets her (even if Max is in Italy all summer long)…
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Havenfall – Sara Holland
Release date: 3 March 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Havenfall (Havenfall, #1) blurb: Maddie Morrow knows that Havenfall is more than it seems. Beneath the beautiful sprawling Inn lie the hidden gateways to three ancient realms: Byrn, Fiordenkill and Solaria. Maddie’s destiny is here, rooted in her family’s promise to protect the fragile alliance between the worlds. But…
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Only Mostly Devastated – Sophie Gonzales
Release date: 3 March 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Only Mostly Devastated blurb: When Ollie meets Will over the summer break, he thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After. But once summer’s ended, Will stops texting him back, and Ollie finds himself short of his fairytale ending. A family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new…
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An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir
Release date: 28 April 2015 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) blurb: An orphan fighting for her family. A soldier searching for his freedom. A story burning to be told. Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested in…
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A Darker Shade of Magic – V. E. Schwab
Release date: 27 February 2015 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1) blurb: Kell is one of the last travellers – magicians with a rare ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magical city. There’s Grey London, without magic and ruled by the mad King George III. Red London –…
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A Heart So Fierce and Broken – Brigid Kemmerer
Release date: 7 January 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Bloomsbury link for Aussie’s Rating A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Cursebreakers, #2) blurb: HARPER has freed Prince Rhen from the curse that almost destroyed his kingdom. But all is not well in Emberfall: rumours are rife that there is a rival heir with a stronger claim to the throne…
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Mini reviews: Mrs Claus’ Read-a-thon edition
Good morning bookworms! This post is kind of a double up in terms of me reading SIX BOOKS for Sam @ Fictionally Sam’s Mrs Claus’ Readathon, AND also ticking off some mini reviews for books that I probably won’t write full reviews on. Looking for romance recommendations? Look no further!! As per every readathon I have ever done, I had…
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Against the Rules / Make Your Move – Laura Heffernan
Against the Rules Release date: 15 October 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Against the Rules (Gamer Girls, #2) blurb: Holly has taken herself out of the dating game since breaking up with her cheating, thieving ex. She barely notices Marc, who comes into the game store every week, hoping to get her attention. Her friends insist it’s time…