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)
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)
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)
Plot: ★★ Characters: ★ Readability: ★ The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty begins with Beauty being ‘initiated’ into the world of sex by the Prince. Naively, when I read the blurb, I assumed Beauty would be…well…awake, for this. She’s not. Beauty then goes with the Prince to his kingdom to become his sex slave. I requested… Read More [After Dark] The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (A.N. Roquelaure)
Plot: ★★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★★ I really wanted – and expected – to love Saving June, but unfortunately, I just didn’t. I started my review for Saving June back when I read the book in January 2013, but I couldn’t really pinpoint why I didn’t love it, so I left the review in my… Read More Saving June (Hannah Harrington)
