Ten months later I have FINALLY read Lore by Alexandra Bracken. I’m going to have to give you some context on that countdown: back on a weirdly hot day in November my best friend Georgia and I (you know the best friend I mention in practically every post, apparently, I can’t think for myself) were in town trying to get me a job. Fail by the way. While we were there, we thought it would be a great idea to hop on a TikTok trend we’d seen where two people would buy a book, swap

If you ask me my favourite book genre I will always tell you it’s fantasy. And if you asked what I thought about YA romance, I would tell you it’s cringe. I love YA romance. It’s such a guilty pleasure of mine I will sit and read a romance book in a quarter of the time I read a fantasy book. Red, White and Royal Blue is no different. Red, White and Royal Blue has been on my ‘to read’ list for a very long time, I found it on TikTok as I did with most of my TBR, but it was neve

Afterlove at its core is a story of realism told in the most unrealistic way. A tale of true and selfish love. In this story of love after life written by Tanya Byrne, we follow 16-year-old Ash Persaud, a regular teenage girl dealing with her domestic family drama, waiting for ‘the one’ to come and break her heart. She finds Poppy Morgan on a boat, a sudden sense of calm in the twisting panic she feels on open water. And it’s Poppy Morgan who remains her tether to reality for