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Review: The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West

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18660447The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Published by: HarperTeen
Pages: 352
Format: e-book
Rating: ★★★★★
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

I absolutely love Kasie West, and can honestly say that I’ve enjoyed everything she’s written. I am beyond excited for her next contemporary story PS. I Like You, and am desperately anticipating the time when I can read The Distance Between Us. I read On The Fence, a few months ago and liked it, but this one blew me away. I literally could not put it down. Continue reading “Review: The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West” →

Review: Rite of Revelation by Sarah Negovetich

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27364670Rite of Revelation by Sarah Negovetich
Genre: Dystopian, Romance
Pages: 393
Format: e-book
Rating: ★★★
Series: Rite of Rejection (#1)
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

We were approached by Sarah to review the second book in her series, after reading Rite Of Rejection around this time last year. The first book in the series ends on a huge cliffhanger, and originally we didn’t think there was going to be a sequel, but there was more of Rebecca’s story to be told, so of course, we were delighted to be able to read the next instalment!

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Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

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The 5th Wave by Rick Yanceyfifthwave
Genre: Dystopian, Apocalyptic
Published by: Penguin
Pages: 460
Format: Hardback
Rating: ★★★
Series: The Infinite Sea (#2)
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

The 5th Wave movie is soon to be released, and this book has been out for a pretty long time now, so I thought I better read it to see what all the hype is about. I have to say that I think it’s overhyped, because although I enjoyed the story, there were certain perspectives that didn’t interest me at all. Suspense wise, though, this series is very promising and I look forward to the sequel.

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Review: Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate

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26240663Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Amulet Books
Pages: 352
Format: e-book
Rating: ★★★★
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

The Seven Ways We Lie follows seven teenagers and each of them are struggling with one particular deadly sin, set against the scandal of a student/teacher love affair and the election of junior class president.

I was ridiculously excited when I read the blurb for this book. It was looking pretty great: debut novel written by a university undergraduate (one of my favourite things to discover), rag tag group of five seven, I was ready for this to be the next Breakfast Club. Bring it on.

And what I got was a beautiful written story, completely full of character depth, that I could not put down at all.

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Review: The Anna Dressed In Blood Duology by Kendare Blake

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9378297Anna Dressed In Blood and Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
Genre: Horror, Paranormal, Romance
Published by: Tor Teen
Pages: 616 combined
Format: e-book
Rating: ★★
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

Cas Lowood is a ghost hunter – it’s part of the family business – and he’s good a pretty good reputation for it. There’s one ghost that he’s determined to destroy: Anna Dressed In Blood, the ghost of a girl wronged the night of her prom, she haunts a house in the town that Cas’s mum has just relocated him too. Anna Dressed In Blood is a mild horror (with elements of comedy and romance) that probably contains a lot of the horror movie tropes those fans of the genre will recognise. Seeing as I don’t particularly enjoy horror myself, this was a… weird read.

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Review: The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

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13612962The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Published by: Scholastic Press
Pages: 300
Format: e-book
Series: The Iron Trial (#1)
Rating: ★★
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

You see, I can’t help but be slightly disappointed with this series. At first the Harry Potter parallels were obvious, and it’s going to be hard to separate the two considering it’s 2 boys, 1 girl at a magical school hidden from the regular world. I mean, we all see what’s going on here. And I seriously hoped that by book two they would have moved away from HP and I hate to admit that the plot line is still basically the same with the characters roles switched up a bit.

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Review: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas

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17623143Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
Genre: Contemporary, Thriller
Published by: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Rating: ★★★
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

I’ve read a lot of YA thriller contemporaries this year: Birdy, Made For You and Black Cairn Point being a few examples. You’d think I’d get bored of this genre by now, but Dangerous Girls had me on the edge of my seat and if I wasn’t strong willed then I would’ve sat down and read this from start to finish without thinking about my other responsibilities. It’s that good – it can make you forget about everything else, because all you’ll want to do if find out what happens next. If you loved Gone Girl then you’ll love this!

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Review: The Iron Warrior by Julie Kagawa

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18054085The Iron Warrior by Julie Kagawa
Genre: Fantasy
Published by: Mira INK
Pages: 384
Format: ARC E-Book
Rating: ★★★
Series: The Lost Prince (#1) | The Iron Traitor (#2)
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon

The Iron Warrior loved up to all of my expectations. It was a fast paced, adventurous reads that won’t leave fans of the Iron Fey series disappointed. Once again Julie Kagawa completely drew me into this world of fear rivalries, and I have to say that I’ll be incredibly sad to leave it.

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Review: Hexed by Michelle Krys

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21417354Hexed by Michelle Krys
Genre: Paranormal, Romance
Published by: Corgi Children’s
Pages: 369
Format: Paperback
Rating: ★★.5
Where to Find: Goodreads | Amazon 

Another witchy read, this time Hexed, which had a bit of hype on booktube when it was first released. I decided to finally pick it up after months of it being on my shelves because the sequel came out quite recently. Again, the characters were pretty typical for the genre, all that was missing was a southern belle. However, there were some curve balls that made this story different to what else you might’ve read.

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Review: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

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5287473Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Mystery
Published by: Simon and Schuster
Pages: 323
Format: Paperback
Rating: ★★.5
Where to find: Goodreads | Amazon

You would not believe the amount of time that this book has just been sat on my TBR gathering dust. The cover that I own is not great, so I can’t say I was particularly looking forward to reading it to begin with. Then I read Rebel Belle, which was super fun, so I thought, why not give Hex Hall a try?

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