Category: Book Reviews

December Reading Wrap Up ~ 2017

by GirlReading


It’s official, the holiday season has well and truly caught up with me. It’s one of those things that somehow manages to catch me by surprise every single year, despite it happening every. single. year. I’m tired, unwell and already over 2018. (Look at me, the poster girl ‘new year, new me’ positivity…) With that being said, like many of us, I am happy to see the back of 2017 and welcome 2018 with open arms, as long as it pinky promises to do better. However, since I’m not feeling too great, I’ve not been able to film my usual monthly reading wrap up for December and since I read some wonderful books last month, I didn’t want to rob them of their time to shine. Instead, I thought I’d do a mini December wrap up here and hope that makes up for it.Read More

Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn (Noodlerella) ~ Book Review

by GirlReading
When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old Lottie finds herself pretending to be the princess so that Ellie can live a more normal teenage life. Lottie is thrust into the real world of royalty – a world filled with secrets, intrigue and betrayal. She must do everything she can to help Ellie keep her secret, but with school, the looming Maradovian ball and the mysterious new boy Jamie, she’ll soon discover that reality doesn’t always have the happily ever after you’d expect…

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Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia ~ Book Review

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Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.

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A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard ~ Book Review

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Steffi doesn’t talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can’t hear, but he can listen. Their love isn’t a lightning strike, it’s the rumbling roll of thunder. Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life – she’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He’s deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she’s assigned to look after him. To Rhys, it doesn’t matter that Steffi doesn’t talk, and as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she’s falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it. From the bestselling author of Beautiful Broken Things comes a love story about the times when a whisper is as good as a shout.

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