Authors: Kristin Cashore Published: 2009 Series: Graceling Realm #2 Genre: YA, Fantasy and Romance By: Ashlin Fire is beautiful – far too beautiful for her own good. She is part monster and this allows her to reach into minds, warp them, control them and use them in any way she wishes. But she doesn’t wish to. That was what her father did, not her. Fire only ever enters others’ … Continue reading Book Review: Fire
Authors: Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis Published: 2018 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age By: Nicole Stella Grant is a high school student suffering from cystic fibrosis, who also runs a YouTube channel where she educates people on CF. Having spent her whole life going to hospitals and missing out on school events, Stella wants nothing to get in the way of a … Continue reading Book Review: Five Feet Apart
Author: John Green Published: 2006 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age By: Ashlin Miles – a scrawny, nerdy, law-abiding boy who loves last words – is searching for his Great Perhaps. Alaska – a crazy, emotional and unpredictable girl stuck with many vices – is looking for a way out of her labyrinth. Can the two of them unintentionally give the other the answers they are so … Continue reading Book Review: Looking for Alaska
Author: Angie Thomas Published: 2017 Genre: YA, Contemporary By: Nicole Starr Carter’s life balances between two completely opposite worlds, the poor neighbourhood and the private school she goes to. It’s hard to move between the two, but when she witnesses her childhood friend, Khalil, get shot in front of her, it gets harder. Starr knows that Khalil was unarmed. Starr knows that the policeman shot him. … Continue reading Book Review: The Hate U Give
Author: Sarah J. Maas Published: 2015 Genre: YA, Fantasy By: Ashlin In this book, Sarah J. Maas creates a world where faeries and humans live alongside each other, but a war from centuries ago means that their relationship is far from friendly. Feyre, a human girl who trudges through each day only thinking of how she can save her family, has broken the law. She … Continue reading Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Author: Jenny Downham Published: 2007 Genre: YA, Contemporary fiction My Rating: 4/5 By: Yeshitu I thoroughly enjoyed this story it was an excellent read. This book makes you think about having a short life and what would happen to you, if your life is shortened. The ideas the author suggests in her book are that if you don’t have much longer to live, you would … Continue reading Book Review: Before I Die
Māpuna Library 