Author: Maria Gil

  • The Conference of Birds by Ransom Riggs

    “Do you trust me?” An instant bestseller, A Map of Days launched readers into the previously unexplored world of American peculiars, one bursting with new questions, new allies, and new adversaries. Publisher: PenguinTeenAUS ISBN: 9780241320907 Pages: 336 Publication Date: January 20th 2020 RRP: $24.99 AUD Personal Rating: 4.5/5 Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story…

  • Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

    A fresh, irresistible rom-com from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected. Publisher: St. Martins Press ISBN: 9781250759627 Pages: 368 Publication Date: January 21st 2020 RRP: $16.99 AUD Personal Rating: 4/5 Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever,…

  • Tweet Cute by Emma Lord | Special Excerpt | Wednesday Books Blog Tour

    A fresh, irresistible rom-com from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected. Publisher: Wednesday Books ISBN: 1250237327 Pages: 368 Publication Date: January 21st 2020 RRP: $17.99 USD Personal Rating: 4/5 Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever,…

  • A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

    In the sequel to New York Times bestselling A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer returns to the world of Emberfall in a lush fantasy where friends become foes and love blooms in the darkest of places. Publisher: Bloomsbury YA ISBN: 1408885085 Pages: 450 Publication Date: January 7th 2020 RRP: $16.99 AUD Personal Rating: 2/5 Find the heir,…

  • Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

    Bound as one to love, honor, or burn. Publisher: HarperTeen ISBN: 0062878026 Pages: 528 Publication Date: September 3rd 2019 RRP: $19.99 AUD Personal Rating: 4/5 Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They…

  • Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton

    In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia ISBN: 9781447281368 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 29th October 2019 RRP: $32.99 AUD Personal Rating: 4/5 Feriton Kane’s investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we’ve almost no time to fight back.…

  • The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world–a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia ISBN: 1910701467 Pages: 498 Publication Date: 5th November 2019 RRP: $32.99 AUD Personal Rating: 5/5 Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student…

  • Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Humanity’s complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from “the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction” (Ken Follett). Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia ISBN: 9781447281344 Pages: 592 Publication Date: 11th June 2019 RRP: $19.99 AUD Personal Rating: 4.5/5 In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in…

  • The Man in the Water by David Burton | AusYABlogger Book Tour

    When 16-year-old Shaun discovers a dead body in the lake of a quiet mining town in outback Queensland, he immediately reports it to the police. But when he returns to the site with the constable, the body is gone.  Publisher: University of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702262524 Pages: 250 Publication Date: October 1st 2019 RRP: $19.95 AUD Personal Rating: 4/5 Now…

  • Topside by J.N Monk &  Harry Bogosian 

    A wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way. Publisher: Graphic Universe ISBN: 1512445894 Pages: 200 Publication Date: October 1st 2019 Personal Rating: 3/5 When Jo, a headstrong maintenance technician, makes an error that destabilizes her planet’s core, she only knows one way to fix things: leaving her underground home for…