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Blog Tour | Fireborn by Aisling Fowler

  Ember is full of monsters. Twelve gave up her name and identity to train in the art of hunting them--so she says. The truth is much more deadly: she trains to take revenge on those who took her family from her. But when Twelve's new home is attacked, she'll find herself on an unexpected journey, where her hidden past is inescapably intertwined with her destiny - and the very fate of her world. Fireborn is the start of something special. A new, adventure series - it reminded me a lot of His Dark Materials, Chronicles of Narnia, and the Hunger Games all rolled into one, so when you're making comparisons as big as that mid-read you know it must be good.  Fireborn follows the adventures of Twelve. An orphan, who has pledged herself to the Hunting Lodge in order to learn the art of hunting the monsters that Ember is filled with. She is fiercely independent, opposed to the offers of friendships others offer her and determined to become the best hunter she can to avenge her fa
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Blog Tour | Lies Like Wildfire - Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

In Gap Mountain, California, everyone knows about fire season. And no one is more vigilant than 18-year-old Hannah Warner, the sheriff’s daughter and aspiring FBI agent. That is until this summer. When Hannah and her best friends accidentally spark an enormous and deadly wildfire, their instinct is to lie to the police and the fire investigators. But as the blaze roars through their rural town and towards Yosemite National Park, Hannah’s friends begin to crack and she finds herself going to extreme lengths to protect their secret. Because sometimes good people do bad things. And if there’s one thing people hate, it’s liars. Lies Like Wildfire had me gripped from page one.  An opening where the protagonist is searching for a body? Tick.  A friendship group facing their ultimate test? Tick.  The threat of the police uncovering the truth on every page? Tick.  It has everything you want from a gripping page-turner and is so fast-paced that I genuinely couldn't put it down. Meaning I re

Blog Tour | The Meeting Point - Olivia Lara

  What if the Lift driver who finds your cheating boyfriend's phone holds the directions to true love? 'Who are you and why do you have my boyfriend's phone?’ 'He left it in my car. You must be the blonde in the red dress? I'm the Lift driver who dropped you two off earlier. And with these words, the life of the brunette and t-shirt wearing Maya Maas is turned upside down. Having planned to surprise her boyfriend, she finds herself single and stranded in an unknown city on her birthday. So when the mystery driver rescues Maya with the suggestion that she cheers herself up at a nearby beach town, she jumps at the chance to get things back on track. She wasn't expecting a personalised itinerary or the easy companionship that comes from opening up to a stranger via text, let alone the possibility it might grow into something more... Before I picked this up, I hadn't read a romance in about five years. I used to love a good romance, but like with

Blog Tour | Wicked Little Deeds - Kat Ellis

  From its creepy town mascot to the story of its cursed waterfall, Burden Falls is a small town dripping with superstition. Ava Thorn knows this well - since the horrific accident she witnessed a year ago, she's been plagued by nightmares. But when her school nemesis is brutally murdered and Ava is the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if the legends surrounding the town are more fact than fiction. Whatever secrets Burden Falls is hiding, there's a killer on the loose, and they have a vendetta against the Thorns... Ava Thorn spends everyday in the shadow of her family's legacy. Around Burden Falls, the Thorns are known for their steely manner, untrustworthy and shunned by many. After the death of her parents in a horrific car accident, Ava must come to terms with losing her family home, as her family's enemies move in instead and she is forced to watch them thrive in what should have been her inheritance.  Ava is plagued by nightmares of the accident, she struggles

Blog Tour | Instructions for Dancing - Nicola Yoon

  Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman - she's even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection. When she's given a copy of a book called Instructions for Dancing, and follows a note inside to a dilapidated dance studio, she discovers she has a strange and unwelcome gift. When a couple kisses in front of her, she can see their whole relationship play out - from the moment they first catch each other's eye to the last bitter moments of their break-up. For Evie, it confirms everything she thinks she knows about love - that it doesn't last. But at the dance studio she meets X - tall, dreadlocked, fascinating - and they start to learn to dance, together. Can X help break the spell that Evie is under? Can he change Evie's mind about love? It sounds like a love story but it isn't. Although love is a central theme in Instructions for Dancing it is there   without it becoming a smutty romance novel like those our

Blog Tour | Mirrorland - Carole Johnstone

  Cat lives in Los Angeles,  about as far away as she can get from her estranged twin sister El and No. 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where they grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to the grand old house, which has scarcely changed in twenty years. No. 36 Westeryk Road is still full of shadowy, hidden corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past. Because someone—El?—has left Cat clues all over the house: a treasure hunt that leads right back to Mirrorland, where she knows the truth lies crouched and waiting…   Mirrorland  is a thriller on paper, but very different to any I have read for a wh

Things To Do Before the End of the World - Emily Barr

1. Live your best life. 2. Uncover family secrets. 3. Trust no one What would you do when you hear the news that humans have done such damage to the earth that there might only be a limited amount of safe air left - a year's worth at most? You'd work through your bucket list, heal rifts, do everything you've never been brave enough to do before? Olivia is struggling to do any of this. What it is she truly wants to do? Who do she wants to be? Then out of the blue comes contact from a long-lost cousin Olivia didn't even know existed. Natasha is everything Olivia wants to be and more. And as the girls meet up for a long, hot last summer, Olivia finds Natasha's ease and self-confidence having an effect on her. But Natasha definitely isn't everything she first appears to be. Emily Barr is no stranger to YA literature having penned many a well-received title including The One Memory of Flora Banks and The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods. Her latest offering, Things To