‘Rook’ – Shannon Cameron 2015
Rook by Sharon Cameron My rating: 2.5 stars In a sentence: Awkward French revolution homage. Rook has a really interesting premise: a post-apocalyptic world whe...
‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’ – Benjamin Alire Saenz 2012
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars This book swelled my heart with hope and happiness un...
‘Looking for Alibrandi’ – Melina Marchetta 1992
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta My rating: 4 of 5 stars Required reading for young teens, Looking for Alabrandi is a beautifully realised tale of grow...
‘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...
‘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...
‘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’...
‘The Painted Veil’ – William Somerset Maugham 1925
‘The Painted Veil’ is both a critical social commentary and deeply personal tale of self realisation. Somerset Maugham’s novel was deeply cont...