Q&A with Cath Crowley – author of Words in Deep Blue

Sometimes in life you have the good fortune to read a book which takes your breath away for all the right reasons. The last book which did this for me was Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley. It’s a beautiful story and an emotional read set in Howling Books – a bookstore which was …

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(Blackholes and Romance): The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

The Square Root of Summer is one of those books I’m not sure how to describe and do it justice. The main character Gottie is a little lost in her life. When her beloved grandfather/surrogate father Grey died, her brother moved to London, her boyfriend broke her heart and her Papa buried himself in his …

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(A Cinderella Story): Everything But the Truth by Mandy Hubbard

When wealthy playboy Malik assumes Holly is another rich relative visiting family in the fancy retirement home her mother manages, she doesn’t correct him. Things between them were never going to get serious – they come from different worlds and in just a few months Holly is leaving for college. But when flirting leads to one date …

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(Fanfiction come to life): Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

I don’t think I’ve ever read a book as meta as Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On. For those who have read Fangirl, you may be familiar with Simon Snow – a teenage wizard from a famous fantasy series Cath is in love with. Carry On is the fanfiction which Cath writes in Fangirl – how do …

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(Alpha and Loving it): Tracker’s End by Chantal Fernando

Chantal Fernando delivers another red hot biker romance in Tracker’s End. Good girl Lana is the sweet, innocent one. Tracker is the big bad biker boy with all the tattoos that go along with being a member of the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club. But what they have in common is intense attraction. Conflicted between wanting to protect …

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You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

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 …

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Star Struck by Jenny McLachlan

Pearl isn’t above some dirty tactics to get what she wants. And what she wants is to be Juliet in the school’s modern production of Shakespeare’s classic play. When the part is given to new girl Hoshi, Pearl resorts to some interesting schemes to get her new nemesis to quit. Since starting the Ladybird series, …

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Sunkissed by Jenny McLachlan

Spending the summer in Sweden would be a lot of people’s idea of a dream vacation. But not for Kat. After she is caught in a compromising position her parents decide the best punishment is to send her to stay with her auntie for a few months. And to make things worse, not only is Kat being exiled from England but …

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Book Review: Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

Before they were strangers, Matt and Grace were friends. And then maybe something more. But then something happened and now they haven’t spoken in fifteen years.  After a chance sighting on a subway platform, Matt reaches out to Grace in the form of a missed connection ad and it is from there we get to …

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Book Review: Signs Point to Yes by Sandy Hall

Signs Point to Yes is a book about Jane, a fangirl who would rather spend her summer writing about The Doctor and Jo March (I never even knew Doctor Who/Little Women fanfiction existed!) than spend time in the real world. When given the choice between an unpaid internship working for her mother or getting a …

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