Plot: ★★★ Characters: ★★★★ Readability: ★★★ Melanie is a little girl who lives in a cell. Every morning, men with guns and grim faces lock her into her wheelchair, push her down the corridor and into the classroom, where she and around twenty other wheelchair bound kids are taught lessons by a variety of teachers. … Read More The Girl with All the Gifts (M. R. Carey)
SPOILER ALERT: As No In Between is book 4 in a series, there may be some spoilers for earlier books. Plot: ★★ Characters: ★★ Readability: ★★★ The story picks up pretty much where Revealing Us left off – Chris and Sara are just arriving home from Paris, preparing for Ava’s trial. Chris and Sara are… Read More No In Between (Lisa Renee Jones)
Plot: ★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Apple has spent the last eleven years wishing for her mother. Wandering why she left and why she never came back, all Apple wants is for her mum to come home. She loves living with her nan, but she’s also beginning to chafe at being picked up from school… Read More Apple and Rain (Sarah Crossan)
SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE FARSEER AND TAWNY MAN TRILOGIES STOP READING NOW! (and go read Assassin’s Apprentice instead) Plot: ★★★★ Characters: ★★★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Fitz is happily ensconced in Withywoods, married to the woman of his dreams, far away from the deceit of Buckeep Court and his old life. He and Molly… Read More Fool’s Assassin (Robin Hobb)
Plot: ★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★ Harriet Manners, the geek girl of the title, never wanted to be a model. In fact, she doesn’t exactly get fashion, and she’s only at the fashion show because her best friend Nat dragged her. Since she’s not exactly popular at school, she goes along with it when she’s… Read More Mini review: Geek Girl (Holly Smale)
