Chosen Ones, Veronica Roth

    Thank you Hachette for this book in exchange for an honest review   Synopsis: A decade ago near Chicago, five teenagers defeated the otherworldly enemy known as the Dark One, whose reign of terror brought widespread destruction and death. The seemingly un-extraordinary teens—Sloane, Matt, Ines, Albie, and Esther—had been brought together by a clandestine government agency because one of them was fated to…

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The Pieces of Ourselves, Maggie Harcourt

  Thank you Usborne books for this book in exchange for an honest review     Synopsis: Flora doesn’t do people”, not since the Incident that led to her leaving school midway through her GCSEs. The Incident that led to her being diagnosed with bipolar II. The Incident that left her in pieces. Until Hal arrives. He’s researching a story about a missing World War…

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This Lovely City, Louis Hare

  Thank you HQ for this book in exchange of an honest review       Synopsis: The drinks are flowing. The music’s playing. But the party can’t last. London, 1950. With the Blitz over and London still rebuilding after the war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush, he’s taken a tiny room in…

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The Dark Lady, Akala

    Thank you Hachette for this book in exchange for an honest review   Synopsis: A pickpocket with an exceptional gift. A prisoner of extraordinary value. An orphan haunted by dreams of the mysterious dark lady. Henry is an orphan, an outsider, a thief. He is also a fifteen-year-old invested with magical powers… This brilliant, at times brutal, first novel from the amazing imagination…

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