by Erin | Apr 8, 2021 | Fantasy, Fiction, My Favourites, YA
Chole and her sisters are The Sisters of Darkness, the three Fates, the hands that choose, spin, measure and slice the thread of human life. But when a mortal girl with a dark destiny shows up on their doorstep, what will they do? How can they protect her and also...
by Erin | Apr 8, 2021 | Fiction, LGBTQ+ Relationships/Characters, My Favourites, Real Life, YA
‘The Art of Starving’ follows Matt, a gay teenage boy who definitely does not have an eating disorder. His sister runs away, but Matt is convinced something bad happened to her. So, he pushes himself to the limits trying to help her. But as Matt stops...
by Erin | Apr 8, 2021 | Fiction, LGBTQ+ Relationships/Characters, Real Life, YA
This documents the 45 days Jeff spends in a youth’s psychiatric ward after a suicide attempt. With witty humour and outlandish sarcasm Jeff navigates life at the ward while coming to terms with what happened. The main mystery is that no one knows why he did it,...
by Erin | Apr 8, 2021 | Fantasy, Fiction, YA
Aloriya is a peaceful kingdom, as long as the monsters in the Wildwood at the edge of the kingdom stay back and the Crown is worn by the current ruler, gifted with magic powers. But during a coronation monsters come into the kingdom to try and take the Crown...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fantasy, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Relationships/Characters, YA
Ekata is very excited for her brother to finally become Grand Duke of Kylma Above, simply because it means she’ll be able to leave the palace and study biology at university. She would finally get away from all her siblings frequently trying to murder each other...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Nonfiction, Short Stories, YA
In this book 70 different authors contribute their stories, advice and reflect on their past bullying experiences. Even today, bullying is always an issue and this book is a good way to see how real it is and how strongly it affects people. I found this to be a...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Horror/Thriller, LGBTQ+ Relationships/Characters, Mystery, Real Life, YA
‘Look Past’ is a terrifying murder mystery story in which Avery is targeted by a highly religious killer for being transgender. After Mary Mathison disappears and her body is found in the woods, Avery starts getting horrible threatening messages. Telling...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Real Life, Romance, YA
‘Definitions of Indefinable Things’ is a beautiful story following characters with mental illnesses and their messy relationships and surprising bonds. Whitney Taylor (the author) manages to combine compelling characters, hard circumstances and awkward...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Real Life, YA
In ‘No Fixed Address’ a young boy named Felix and his mother Astrid are forced to learn how to survive in a very bad financial situation and homelessness. Felix has to keep his living arrangement a secret from his friends at school. But as the...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Real Life, YA
This book mainly follows Nick as he goes through the many struggles of being a more typical teenager stuck in a highly Christian summer camp, while also being haunted by the ghost of author Jack Kerouac. He is important to the plot, but I’m still not entirely...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Real Life, YA
Eden and Bonnie are best friends, but when Bonnie disappears even Eden doesn’t know where she is. Will they stay friends even when torn apart by many hard decisions? How long will Eden trust Bonnie and lie to the police for her? [Warning: This contains...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fantasy, Fiction, Real Life, Science Fiction, YA
‘Out of the Blue’ is a story of a timeline in which magical Angel-like Beings just start falling out of the sky one day. After humans figured out it wasn’t necessarily the end of the world, they capitalized on it (as they always do). But what...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Dystopia, Fiction, YA
‘Away We Go’ is a YA dystopian novel in which there are multiple issues going on, including a virus that only infects children, teenagers and young adults. There’s also other reasons to think the world is about to end, this story follows teenagers as...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Real Life, Science Fiction, YA
’23 Minutes’ introduces the concept of time travel but only in short 23 minutes bursts, and there’s very little control of the outcome. When Zoe happens to witness a bank robbery she has to decide how to use her time manipulation powers to save...
by Erin | Apr 7, 2021 | Fiction, Real Life, YA
This is the story of how the students of Alexandria Prep are exposed. When a school app gets hacked and all the information on student’s phones are gradually leaked, exposing many scandalous secrets. Who’s secrets will be spilled next? And who is behind...
