ONE MOMENT BY KRISTINA MCBRIDE REVIEW
It was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie's life. Now it's the one she'd do anything to forget.
Maggie remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after the party the night before. She remembers climbing the path hand in hand with her perfect boyfriend, Joey. She remembers that last kiss-soft, lingering, safe. So why can't she remember what happened next?
All it takes is ONE second for everything to change. One MOMENT to realise that it's the people you love who hurt you the most.
Review by Charli-Valentine
I picked up this book a few months ago after my friend and I absolutely fell in love with the front cover, and - not judging a book by it's cover - the story just sounded to compelling I had to buy it. And it was just a breathtaking read!
'CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE' BY CASSANDRA CLARE UK LAUNCH PARTY
We all knew that Cassandra Clare was scheduled to be in the UK for the international release of her last novel in her Urban Fantasy YA series 'The Mortal Instruments', however it was announced yesterday on her Tumblr that there would be a special Launch Party in London in May. Read more below.
SPLIT SECOND BY SOPHIE MCKENZIE SPOILER-FREE REVIEW
Bound together by the devastating consequences of a terrorist attack on a London market, teenagers Charlie and Nat appear at first to have much in common. But, as Charlie gets closer to Nat and his family, she begins to wonder if perhaps he knows more about the attack then he has let on.
Split Second is a an action-packed thriller that shifts between the perspectives of its two main characters as their courage and their loyalties are tested to the limit.
I have never been a huge fan of action novels but Sophie Mckenzie has never failed to keep me hooked on her series and SPLIT SECOND had me gripped from the very first chapter!
SPLIT SECOND is split into three parts. Part One Investigation takes place six months after we read the events of the day of the attack. Part Two Initiation and Part Three Infiltration. You are thrown straight into the action and, without giving too much away, it doesn't stop.
UNDONE CAT CLARE - REVIEW
Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal, but she's learning to live with it.
Then the unspeakable happens.
Kai is outed online... and he kills himself.
Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. And she want to take them down...
Another hear trenching, tear jerking, incredible novel from the wonderful author that is Cat Clarke.
UNDONE is a novel based around a teenage girl, Jem and her life after her best friend Kai kills himself when he is outed in the worst possible way online, for being gay. Kai is Jem's only friend so when he leaves her she has to learn to be in a world without him, only she doesn't know if she can...
Clarke is a master at writing novels that deal with the dark and gritty side of life but somehow in UNDONE she shows the light through it too, and even though this book covers a subject that a lot of people like to avoid, I found myself laughing and blushing as well as crying and gasping.
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FINAL AUTHOR NAMES ANNOUNCED FOR YALC 2014
Waterstones Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman and the London Film and Comic Convention (LFCC) announced the official final line-up for the UK's first Young Adult Literature Convention.
Headlining the event is US author Rainbow Rowell, whose first YA title 'Eleanor & Park' spend six weeks in the New York Times Bestseller chart, was voted Goodreads' best Young Adult Fiction of the year and was chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013. The first draft of her second YA novel 'Fangirl' was written as part of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Alongside Rowell, there are also a host of other names from the YA writing world joining the line-up, including 18-year-old author Beth Reekles, who was recently named by Time magazine as one of the 16 most influential teenagers in the world.