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Skyhunter, Marie Lu
Marie Lu can do nothing but astound with her novels, and proves she still has a lot to give with Skyhunter. At first Skyhunter rings...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Apr 20, 20212 min read


Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer
Did we need a return to the world of Twilight? Did we need to know the story from Edwards perspective? Definitely not. Did we buy the...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Apr 13, 20212 min read


Dark Blue Rising, Teri Terry
Climate change effects us all, but how do we make everyday citizens, and big corporations, care about this catastrophic event? Teri Terry...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Apr 6, 20212 min read


Swam Thing, Twin Branches, Maggie Stiefvater and Morgan Beem
Maggie Stiefvater's exploration into comic's is a beautiful transcendence to behold. A story written by Maggie Stiefvater and illustrated...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 30, 20212 min read


Burn, Patrick Ness
Picture the world, but with dragons. This is what Patrick Ness asks us to do in Burn. In one, stimulating, novel Ness makes us fall in...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 23, 20212 min read


The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
There are some stories we didn't realise we needed to know until we've read them. While we all certainly wanted more from Suzanne...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 16, 20213 min read


Crescent City House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas
It seems impossible for Sarah J. Maas to have a bad story idea, and this introduction to The Crescent City series proves once again that...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 9, 20212 min read


Hold Back The Tide, Melinda Salisbury
A small book which has the power to shatter your world. For everything I expected from Melinda Salisbury's Hold Back The Tide I was...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Feb 23, 20212 min read


Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy, Kevin Kwan
If there were ever a case of the book being far better than the movie adaptation it is found here, in Crazy Rich Asians. Heralded as the...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Feb 16, 20214 min read


My Top 5 Non-Fiction Reads
Even the greatest reader of fiction has those few non-fiction books on their shelves which stand out to them as must reads. Here are the...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Feb 9, 20215 min read


Why Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn Should be Read Back-to-Back
Though released a year apart Sarah J. Maas’s most recent instalments in the Throne of Glass series work in parallel to one another within...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jan 19, 20212 min read


The Walls Around Us
What would you do to be the best? What would you do to remove your competition? What if the final judge could see everything you’ve done?...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jan 12, 20212 min read


Swarm
Following Zeroes, Swarm written in collaboration with Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti brings back the group of...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jan 5, 20211 min read


The Midnight Star
The final instalment in The Young Elites series from talented writer Marie Lu will leave you desperate for more from this incredible...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Dec 29, 20202 min read


The Forest Of Hands And Teeth, Carrie Ryan,
We cannot stop singing the praises of The Forest of Hands And Teeth. It can be really hard to find a horror novel that feels like a...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Dec 22, 20202 min read


Sisters Red, Jackson Pearce,
Jackson Pearce has taken the fairy tales that we were all raised on and turned them into incredibly powerful, modern, stories with a...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Dec 15, 20201 min read


Ash, Melinda Lo,
Written like a fairy tale this incredible take on an old fable is a beautiful, heartfelt, take on a story we all know a love. Melinda Lo...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Dec 8, 20201 min read


Huntress, Melinda Lo,
Melinda Lo’s incredible, artful and engaging writing technique is shown off to its best in Huntress. An action packed story which you...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Dec 1, 20201 min read


Anna Dressed In Blood, Girl Of Nightmares, Kendare Blake,
Enter a spellbinding, incredible series that will leave your heart racing and your mind spinning. With just the right amount of horror,...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Nov 24, 20202 min read


My Love Lies Bleeding, Alyxandra Harvey,
The first installment in what turned out to be an incredible series, My Love Lies Bleeding, is an amazing read, taking an incredible take...
Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Nov 24, 20201 min read
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