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Book Review: Girls Can't Hit by T.S. Easton

Title:  Girls Can't Hit  Author:  T.S. Easton Series:   n/a Pages:   288 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of Publication:  20th April, 2017 Source:  NetGalley* Synopsis from Goodreads: Fleur Waters never takes anything seriously - until she turns up at her local boxing club one day, just to prove a point. She's the only girl there, and the warm-up alone is exhausting . . . but the workout gives her an escape from home and school, and when she lands her first uppercut on a punching bag she feels a rare glow of satisfaction. So she goes back the next week, determined to improve. Fleur's overprotective mum can't abide the idea of her entering a boxing ring, why won't she join her pilates class instead? Her friends don't get it either and even her boyfriend, 'Prince' George, seems concerned by her growing muscles and appetite - but it's Fleur's body, Fleur's life, so she digs her heels in and carries on with her training. My T...

Book Review: How To Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle

Title:  How To Be Bad Author:  E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle Series:   n/a Pages:   288 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of UK Publication:  4th June, 2015 Source:  Bought Synopsis from Goodreads: When you're tired of being good, sometimes you gotta be a little bad ... Jesse, Vicks and Mel couldn't be more different. Jesse, a righteous Southern gal who's as thoughtful as she is uptight, is keeping a secret that she knows will change her life forever. Vicks is a wild child: seemingly cool, calm and collected on the outside, but inside she's furious at herself for being so anxious about her neglectful boyfriend. And Mel is the new girl in town. She's already been dismissed as just another rich kid, but all she wants is to get over some of her fears and find some true friends. But for all their differences, the girls discover they've got one thing in common - they're desperate to escape. Desperate to get the heck out ...

Book Review: Lorali by Laura Dockrill

Title:  Lorali Author:  Laura Dockrill Series:   n/a Pages:   208 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of Publication: 2nd July, 2015 Source:  For review via NetGalley* Synopsis from Goodreads: Colourful, raw, brave, rich and fantastical - this mermaid tale is not for the faint-hearted. Looking after a naked girl he found washed up under Hastings pier isn't exactly how Rory had imagined spending his sixteenth birthday. But more surprising than finding her in the first place is discovering where she has come from. Lorali is running not just from the sea, not just from her position as princess, but her entire destiny. Lorali has rejected life as a mermaid, and become human. But along with Lorali's arrival, and the freak weather suddenly battering the coast, more strange visitors begin appearing in Rory's bemused Sussex town. With beautifully coiffed hair, sharp-collared shirts and a pirate ship shaped like a Tudor house, the Abelgare boys...

Book Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Title:  The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Author:  E. Lockhart Series:   Standalone Pages:  352 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of Publication: 6th November, 2014 Source:  Publisher for review* Synopsis from Goodreads:  Fifteen-year-old Frankie Landau-Banks has grown up a lot over the summer. She's no longer daddy's little girl - and almost immediately after starting the new semester at her highly prestigious school, she bags goofy-but-gorgeous Matthew Livingston as her boyfriend. They get along great but then Frankie discovers that Matthew is a member of a boys-only secret society that specialise in 'hilarious' pranks. Which hardly seems fair... especially when Frankie knows she's smarter than any of its members. And to prove this, she's going to teach them a lesson. Impersonating lead member Alpha by using a fake email account is surprisingly easy, and soon Frankie is setting the boys up with all sorts of ridiculous s...

Book Review: Say Her Name by James Dawson

Title:  Say Her Name Author:  James Dawson Series:  Pages:  240 Publisher: Hot Key Books Date of Publication: 5th June, 2014 Source: Publisher* for review Synopsis from Goodreads: Roberta 'Bobbie' Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine agree to join in too. They are ordered to summon the legendary ghost of 'Bloody Mary': say her name five times in front of a candlelit mirror, and she shall appear... But, surprise surprise, nothing happens. Or does it? Next morning, Bobbie finds a message on her bathroom mirror... five days... but what does it mean? And who left it there? Things get increasingly weird and more terrifying for Bobbie and Naya, until it becomes all too clear that Bloody Mary was indeed called from the afterlife that night, and she is definitely not a friendly ghost. Bobbie, Naya and Cai...

Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Title:  We Were Liars Author:  E. Lockhart Series:   Standalone Pages:   225 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of Publication:  15th May, 2014 Source:  Publisher for review* Synopsis from Goodreads: We are the Liars. We are beautiful, privileged and live a life of carefree luxury. We are cracked and broken. A story of love and romance. A tale of tragedy. Which are lies? Which is truth? My Thoughts: I knew very little about We Were Liars before I read it. Really, all I knew was that this book is the current big thing and so when I got an email about the live read that took place this weekend, I knew I had to get my hands on a copy if possible to take part. I actually think that knowing relatively little made me enjoy it even more, since I literally had no idea what I was walking into, and I think that the mystery and slight uneasiness you feel when reading since nothing quite seems to sit right and fit together ni...

Book Review: The Savages by Matt Whyman

Title:  The Savages Author:  Matt Whyman Series:   ~ Pages:   280 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of Publication:  6th June 2013 Source:  Bought Synopsis from Goodreads: They'd love to have you for dinner . . . Sasha Savage is in love with Jack - a handsome, charming ... vegetarian. Which wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that Sasha's family are very much 'carnivorous'. Behind the family facade all is not as it seems. Sasha's father rules his clan with an iron fist and her mother's culinary skills are getting more adventurous by the day. When a too-curious private detective starts to dig for truths, the tight-knit family starts to unravel - as does their sinister taste in human beings . . . My Thoughts: I was absolutely desperate to read The Savages . I don't know why, just something about it really appealed to me. I used to really love vampires stories (not gonna lie, still do, a little bit), and the way it ...

Book Review: Fearsome Dreamer by Laure Eve

Title:  Fearsome Dreamer Author:  Laure Eve Series:   Fearsome Dreamer, #1 Pages:   357 Publisher:  Hot Key Books Date of Publication:  3rd October 2013 Source:  From publisher for review* Synopsis from Goodreads: There is a world where gods you’ve never heard of have wound themselves into hearts, and choice has led its history down a different path. This is a world where France made a small, downtrodden island called England part of its vast and bloated empire. There are people here who can cross a thousand miles with their minds. There are rarer people still who can move between continents in the blink of an eye. These people are dangerous. And wanted. Desperately wanted. Apprentice hedgewitch Vela Rue knows that she is destined for more. She knows being whisked off from a dull country life to a city full of mystery and intrigue is meant to be. She knows she has something her government wants, a talent so rare and prec...

Book Review: Vivian Versus the Apocalypse by Katie Coyle

Title:  Vivian Versus the Apocalypse Author: Katie Coyle Series:  ~ Pages:  288 Publisher: Hot Key Books Date of Publication:  5th September, 2013 Source: For review from publisher* Synopsis from Goodreads: A chilling vision of a contemporary USA where the sinister Church of America is destroying lives. Our cynical protagonist, seventeen-­year-­old Vivian Apple, is awaiting the fated 'Rapture' -­ or rather the lack of it. Her evangelical parents have been in the Church's thrall for too long, and she's looking forward to getting them back. Except that when Vivian arrives home the day after the supposed 'Rapture', her parents are gone. All that is left are two holes in the ceiling... Viv is determined to carry on as normal, but when she starts to suspect that her parents might still be alive, she realises she must uncover the truth. Joined by Peter, a boy claiming to know the real whereabouts of the Church, and Edie, a heavily pregnant Believer ...