Category: Books
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The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey | Book Review
Published by Josie Jaffrey Genre – Young Adult, Paranormal, Dystopia, Fantasy In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not…
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What to do first: Read the Book or Watch the movie?
For a bookworm like me, on screen adaptations of books are always a tricky thing. They can be great if done right or the worst thing ever to happen to a book if not. But that’s not the only tricky part about book adaptations. For me, it’s whether to watch the movie before or after…
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Book Review
Published by Walker Books Genre – Young Adult, Contemporary Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a…
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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi || Book Review
Published by Josie Jaffrey Genre – Young Adult, Dystopia, PFantasy Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares.…
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie |Book Review
Published by – Little, Brown Books Genre – Contemporary, Young Adult, Humor Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school…
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Spoilers- Unspeakable things or Wrongly Defamed? | Discussion
“Spoilers ” A dirty word for some, while for others, a way to quench the thirst for knowing what happens next. Dictionary.com defines a spoiler as “ information about a plot or event in a movie, book, or show that may spoil the suspense or surprise”. Nowadays though, the meaning of the word encompasses a…
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Book Review: You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
Published by Knopf Genre – Young Adult, Contemporary When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up…
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10 Brilliant Quotes From Around YA
Highlighting quotes you find beautiful while reading a book is a feeling most bookworms are familiar with. And I am no different. Here are some of the quotes (in no particular order) that I have read and loved. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” The nation of…
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Book Review: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Published by Henry Holt and Company Genre – Fantasy, Young Adult Buy on Amazon.in Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest…
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Book Review: Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Published by Pan Macmilan UK Genre- Young Adult, Dystopian, Fantasy, Science Fiction Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies—humans with extraordinary abilities—who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of…
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