Category: Books

  • The Origin of Me by Benard Gallate

    The Origin of Me is a funny, tender coming-of-age story by a fabulous new talent, Bernard Gallate. Fifteen years in the writing and inspired in part by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the novel tells the story of teenager Lincoln Locke, a boy searching for his origin story and his destiny alike. Publisher: Penguin Random House ISBN: 9780143789628…

  • Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden | Book Tour

    Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden Publisher: Press 53 ISBN: 1950413152 Pages: 80 Publication Date: March 11th 2020 RRP: $14.95 USD Personal Rating: 5/5 Drowning in the Floating world is a heart-wrenching book filled with a series of poems that followed the aftermath of Japan’s 2011 tsunami and Fukushima plant disaster. Each poem takes a new perspective…

  • Havenfall by Sara Holland

    A safe haven between four realms. The girl sworn to protect it–at any cost. Hidden deep in the mountains of Colorado lies the Inn at Havenfall, a sanctuary that connects ancient worlds–each with their own magic–together. For generations, the inn has protected all who seek refuge within its walls, and any who disrupt the peace…

  • The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

    As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. Publisher: Bloomsbury YA ISBN:…

  • 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.…