You’re fourteen, you should be thinking about school and hanging out with your friends. But instead, you are being suffocated by a secret you’re trying to safeguard the best you can, one your mother is determined on feeding some more with an ever-growing pile of hoarded things that she buys and never uses. Her addiction…
Tag: Book Reviews
Book Review: “The Elephant Thief” by Jane Kerr
This is an enchanting story about a young boy who has his life flipped upside down in the blink of an eye. But has he jumped out of the frying pan into the fire? You would hope that anything would be better than surviving from petty thieving or risking to be caught not only by…
Book Review: “Ink” by Alice Broadway + #Giveaway
This story gives a new meaning to the phrase “I can read you like an open book”. Leora, a sixteen year old aspiring Inker, is part of a community that lives in the hope of an afterlife where one forever remains amongst the greats as a collection of tattoos acquired over a lifetime, preserved…
Book Review: “The Crown’s Game” by Evelyn Skye
Russian magic…Two words that probably don’t take centre stage together very often, it is however what first attracted me to this book. Unfortunately it did not quite live up to my expectations. I think it was a very ambitious novel with a lot of promise but it just failed take off. That said, it is…
LaChouett’s January wrap up!!
Hi everyone! And welcome to my first wrap up of the year. I like to think that I started 2016 with quite a selection actually. Most were YA reads, one of them a fantasy book. So, let’s start with my first read, “The Icarus Show” by debut author Sally Christie. Meeting Alex Meadows was like…