Worse Things, Sally Murphy

    Thank you Walker Books for this book in exchange for an honest review   Synopsis: Worse Things follows the lives of three main characters: Blake, an Aussie Rules football player who suffers a devastating injury; Jolene, a hockey player who hates the game and is grieving over the recent death of her father; and Amed, a soccer-loving, non-English speaking orphan who feels like…

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Only Most Devastated, Sophie Gonzales

  Thank you Hachette Australia for this book in exchange for an honest review     Synopsis: Summer love…gone so fast. Will Tavares is the dream summer fling―he’s fun, affectionate, kind―but just when Ollie thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairy tale ending, and to complicate the…

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The Shark Caller, Zillah Bethell

Thank you Usborne book for this book in exchange for an honest review     Synopsis: Desperate to become a shark caller to avenge the death of her parents, Blue Wing is instead charged with befriending infuriating newcomer Maple. At first they are angry and out of sync with the island and each other. But when the tide breathes the promise of treasure, can they…

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Burn, Patrick Ness

  Thank you Walker Books for this book in exchange for an honest review   Synopsis: On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to…

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Belle Revolte, Linsey Miller

  Thank you NewSouth books for this book in exchange for an honest review       Synopsis: Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work. Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants…

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