Please take note of the trigger warnings before delving into this book because the depictions are incredibly detailed and dark. Trigger warnings: child rape and sexual abuse, date rape, drug and substance use, overdose, self-harm, murder, blood, gore, PTSD and grief Like most of the blogosphere, Ninth House is one of our most highly anticipated books […]
Note: This is the sequel and conclusion to Ignite the Stars, which you can find my glowing review over here. This review will have slight spoilers! I utterly adored Ignite the Stars, and so I had high, highhhh expectations for this sequel. And while I enjoyed it wholeheartedly, I can’t help but also feel a […]
You might have heard that Frankly In Love features a Korean-American teenager looking for love. And you might also have heard that Frankly in Love also features the much loved fake-dating trope. Both of these reasons is why I picked up the book. So what did I think about it? My thoughts on Frankly in Love are […]
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love is a short story anthology with diverse characters and food as an underlying theme. Each of the 13 stories are set in Hungry Heart Row and follow characters and locations that appear sporadically in each of the short stories. I absolutely loved how the stories were interwoven […]
What an unexpected surprise! I was completely hooked from beginning to end with Hive, as we find out about the cult-like world that Hayley lives in. It starts with a bee going where it shouldn’t, a drip from the ceiling and secrets that shouldn’t be told, and from there, Hayley’s life is thrown into turmoil. […]
We have no shortage of amazing writers in Australia – after all, there’s an entire hashtag dedicated to it under #LoveOzYA! Two recent anthologies focus on stories from our amazing #LoveOzYA authors – Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories and Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories. Kindred obviously focuses on queer #ownvoices authors, while Underdog features stories from new authors that were […]
Fun, fascinated, and a fan of adventure: all words to describe the Lady Rogue of this book, Theodora. She’s the daughter of the first woman archaeologist to graduate from a university in Romania, as well as the grand, larger-than-life explorer, Richard Fox. Told between alternating journal entries from Fox’s travel journal and Theodora’s first person […]
My gosh did I love this book! I can’t believe I have to wait another whole year until the sequel is released. I was left with so many thoughts and feels and honestly went searching for American Royals fanfiction… only to realise that there was none. It’s really no surprise that I enjoyed American Royals so much. I loved […]
This review may contain slight spoilers for the Stalking Jack the Ripper series. Ahhh, another satisfying end to a series and my heart is so full! Capturing the Devil is everything I wanted in a conclusion to the Stalking Jack the Ripper series – a return to everything we loved in the first two books, lots of […]