BOOK LIST: 2020 Books I’m Excited For

2019 is nearly over, with 2020 is right around the corner! You know what that means... NEW BOOKS! I've made a list of all my anticipated reads for next year and there are some excellent titles coming out - I just hope I can remember to read them all! The Gilded Ones Sixteen-year-old Deka lives…

BOOK BLOG TOUR: Love, Secret Santa Author Q&A

Hello everyone! Who else is feeling festive? I know I am! Today, I'm incredibly lucky to be kicking off the Love, Secret Santa blog tour! Love, Secret Santa is the story of study-driven Angel who is also juggling the school charity fundraiser. Unfortunately, her fundraising partner is Caspar Johnson: handsome, creative and fun, but TOTALLY unreliable.…

BOOK LIST: MY 2019 FAVOURITES

I’m back again with another roundup post! Although I only posted recently about some of my 2019 books, those were really just looking back on the ones I anticipated loving. This post will be all about my top favourite books of 2019, and a breakdown on why I loved them so much! I’m keeping this…

BOOK REVIEW – THE BLACK FLAMINGO

I never used to enjoy reading poetry. It would remind me of the days in school where we would endlessly have to annotate and break down somewhat miserable poems. In fact, the only poem I can remember resonating with in school was one called 'Half-Caste' by John Agard, a poem that tells the reader that…

BOOK LIST: A Beginners Guide to…UKYA

When it comes to YA, the majority of the books are set in America. This is all well and good but life in the US as a young adult is very different to life in the UK as a young adult. Our schools are vastly different, language and slang is different, and sometimes it's just…

BOOK REVIEW: ALEX IN WONDERLAND

As a huge fan of Simon James Green, I was delighted to receive an early reading copy of his brand new book, Alex in Wonderland! Huge thanks to  Scholastic for sending me one! I wondered whether the book would be just as good as Simon's previous books, and it definitely doesn't disappoint - I read…

BOOK REVIEW – I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST

As one of my most anticipated reads of 2019, this book certainly didn't disappoint. This book is a triumph, and with such utterly beautiful passages it would be hard to not read this book and have your heart break and swell while reading. When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're…

BOOK REVIEW – THE PAPER & HEARTS SOCIETY

When The Paper & Hearts Society book was announced by Hachette, I knew that it would be a book that would be a book to really resonate with teens. I put it on my list of most anticipated books of 2019, which you can read here. Lucy Powrie is a big name in the world…

BOOK REVIEW: Summer Bird Blue

Hey lovely readers! Today, I've been lucky enough to be chosen to be part of the Summer Bird Blue blog tour - thanks so much to Ink Road for sending me a gifted copy for me to read and review. This was a beautifully sad story, and one that I feel covered grief in a…

PROUD BLOG TOUR: Favourite LGBT+ Characters

Hello everyone! Today, I'm taking part in the PROUD blog tour, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to write a list of my favourite LGBT+ characters. You may notice that quite a few of them come from books by Alice Oseman. Reason being is that she writes such exceptional and relatable LGBT+ characters, and…