‘I’ll Give you the Sun’ – Jandy Nelson 2014
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book broke my heart. Smashed it into little pieces. Then, little by little, it put it b...
‘Zone One’ – Colson Whitehead 2011
Zone One by Colson Whitehead My rating: 3 of 5 stars The best I can give this book is a half-hearted ‘meh’. I’m so disappointed, because I do ...
‘Station Eleven’ – Emily St. John Mandel 2014
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Station Eleven reminds us of the fragility of our lives, our society and our civilization. How, ...
‘Romy (2250 Saga, #1)’ – Nirina Stone 2015
Romy is an interesting YA dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic imagining of Earth in 2255. The story is told by protagonist Romy, who is a teenager born in...
‘Feed’ – M. T. Anderson 2002
It is the future: Where American children have an electronic ‘feed’ implanted into their brain. This embedded machine grows with them and takes over...
‘The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly’ – Stephanie Oakes 2015
“I am a blood soaked girl” What an opening line! It sets the tone for the most engaging and unique YA novels of 2015. The genre of Young Adult is fl...
‘The Secret History’ – Donna Tartt 1992
This book drew me in from the very first few sentences of the prologue. Perhaps because it outlines the terrible crime of the protagonists in such distant manne...
‘The Space Merchants’ – Frederick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth 1953
I loved this book, and don’t know why I put off writing this review for so long. I finished this novel in Feb 2012, and it still comes to mind from time t...
‘Saint Anything’ – Sarah Dessen 2015
“You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.” I ow...
‘Risk’ – Fleur Ferris 2015
An important cautionary tale for young teens about staying safe online, with some inconsistent views on body-image. Though it errs on the ‘preaching’...