ARC Book Review: Get Even by Gretchen McNeil

Title: Get Even (Don’t Get Mad #1) Author: Gretchen McNeil Publisher: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children Release Date: 16th September 2014 Genre: Young Adult, contemporary, mystery Format: E-book Page Count: 320 Source: Edelweiss Rating: Four school girls with nothing in common are secretly a vigilante group known only as DGM: Don’t Get Mad. They retaliate against bullies, but when their latest target is murdered before […]

ARC Book Review: The Rapunzel Dilemma by Jennifer Kloester

Title: The Rapunzel Dilemma Author: Jennifer Kloester Publisher: Penguin Teen Australia Release Date: 27th August 2014 Genre: Young Adult, contemporary Format: E-book Page Count: ??? Source: Netgalley Rating: Lily’s scored a rare audition to get into the London Drama Academy, the school of her dreams, but there are a few problems: she’s only there on probation for one term, her dad wants her […]

Book Review: Mary Hades by Sarah Dalton

Title: Mary Hades (Mary Hades #1) Author: Sarah Dalton Publisher: Sarah Dalton Release Date: 4th May 2014 Genre: Young Adult, Gothic, paranormal Format: E-book Page Count: 286 (paperback) Source: Xpresso Book Tours Rating: Mary’s been dragged to Nettleby, a small town in the north of England, for a family holiday, but when strange accidents occur that […]

ARC Book Review: Feral by Holly Schindler

Title: Feral Author: Holly Schindler Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: 26th August 2014 Genre: Young Adult, mystery.thriller Format: E-book Page Count: 432 (paperback) Source: Edelweiss Rating: Claire Cain only just survived a brutal gang beating in a car park in Chicago, and when her father gets a job in small town Peculiar, so they pack up and […]

Book Review: Fury by Shirley Marr

Publisher: Black Dog Books/ Walker Books Publishing Date: May 1 2010 Genre: YA, Contemporary Format: Paperback Page count: 277 My rating: Eliza Boans is sitting in an interview room, confessing to murder. That’s the premise of this book, and it’s totally awesome. We are told the story in a series of flashbacks: when new girl at school Ella joins ‘Lizzie’s […]