Pages: 496Published: 25th February 2016Genre: Young Adult ContemporaryContent warnings: Child cruelty, discrimination What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. But when … Continue reading Book Review – Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Pages: 384Published: 25th July 2023Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Violence towards child, missing child storyline, references to domestic violence Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighbourhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns … Continue reading Book Review – Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena
Pages: 469Published: 29th August 2023Genre: Young Adult Mystery Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does … Continue reading Book Review – The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Pages: 315Published: 11th May 2023Genre: Young Adult MysteryContent warnings: Child death, catfishing Two friends, Amy and Stan, plan revenge on their prankster friend Hollie by catfishing her as her crush. They only mean to do it for a day or two - but then Hollie ends up dead. As the catfish continues to strike others, Amy needs to find … Continue reading Book Review – Every Word A Lie by Sue Wallman
Pages: 449Published: 22nd August 2023Genre: Mystery/Gothic Fantasy A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many years ago...and now he's determined to … Continue reading Book Review – Foxglove by Adalyn Grace
Pages: 486Published: 12th May 2022Genre: Historical FictionContent warnings: Sexual content, domestic abuse, misogyny Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town's most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her a man she might not know as well as she once thought. At night she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted … Continue reading Book Review – The House With The Golden Door by Elodie Harper
Pages: 292Published: 26th June 2014Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Suicide, child death, sexual references, racism Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were … Continue reading Book Review – Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Pages: 464Published: 4th July 2024Genre: CrimeContent warnings: Missing child storyline Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin … Continue reading Book Review – Breaking The Dark by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 454Published: 6th July 2021Genre: FantasyContent warnings: Injury detail Shiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted. But it also … Continue reading Book Review – Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Pages: 340Published: 4th January 2022Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Drugs, discrimination Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's … Continue reading Book Review – The Maid by Nita Prose
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