You Know Me Well is a book about friendship, love and taking chances. Teens Mark and Kate may seem to have nothing in common. He’s a shy jock hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with his oblivious best friend. She’s an artistically driven college bound senior who is waiting for her best friend to set her up …
It started out like a typical day for Blake Carter. That was until he got attacked by a musical instrument, met Agent Nikki Steel (his new cyborg partner) and had his daughter Lisa kidnapped by criminal mastermind and infamous villain, Bartholomew Badde. With things going from Badde to worse, Blake, Nikki and Blake’s ex-wife Astrid team …
If you are a fan of superbly written, action-packed fiction with interesting, brilliantly flawed characters – look no further than Paula Weston’s Rephaim series. This is a series you won’t want to put down! Typically I don’t like series concerning angels yet this series has changed my mind. Burn, the fourth and final book in …
Jack Mason, the somewhat eccentric consulting detective Mr Doyle, and Scarlet Bell are back on the job. This time they are led into a mystery involving an ancient device which could possibly lead to the legendary land of Atlantis. But this time things are a little more personal. Mr Doyle receives information which indicates that …
I’m not sure how David Levithan does it but with each book of his I read, I fall a little more in love with his writing style. The Realm of Possibility is a novel told in verse and follows twenty high school students as they navigate love, life and growing up. Each character may only have …
For the longest time it has always been Avicenna and her mother, Joanne. But when Joanne goes missing, Avicenna is lost. She may be eighteen but she doesn’t know what to do without her mum. Joanne is an astrologer and it seems her gift is connected with her disappearance. Her predictions are eerily precise and …
The Secret Abyss (book 2 in Darrell Pitt’s The Jack Mason Adventures series) is exciting, fun, almost absurd at times and inventive. But if I were to describe it in one word that word would be surprising. Much like in The Firebird Mystery, there is always something happening and most of the time it isn’t something readers would …
*Whilst this review contains no spoilers for Shimmer (the third book in the Rephaim series) there are references to events which occurred in the first two novels (Shadows, Haze)* If there is one Aussie author I feel needs more international recognition – it’s Paula Weston. After finishing Shimmer, I can’t suppress the urge to …
When a flood took the lives of half the town, Tom (also known as Holly the tom boy) lost her parents and sister. With the only family Tom had left being her elderly grandmother in a nursing home, Tom gets taken in by one of her father’s friends, Bill. It’s an odd situation and one which …
Title: The Impossible Knife of Memory Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Genre: Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Romance Publisher: Text Publishing Publication Date: January 2014 Pages: 304 Rating: 5 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape …