Booksmart dir. by Olivia Wilde
I probably wouldn’t have gone to see this film if it wasn’t for hearing about it on the podcast so thank you Mark Kermode, because this is a really lovely entertaining...
1 June 2019
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
DC Icons ; 1 Pretty much everyone is familiar with Wonder Woman, right? Diana Princess of Themyscira, amazon and superhero. Well, count me as one of those who is familiar with...
4 November 2017
A fabulous creature by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
James Fielding was not at all happy when his parents decided to spend the summer in “the wilderness”, his plans had included girls and learning to talk to them, not nature....
6 March 2016
Anna Who by Bernadette Leach
So last week on twitter I spotted this tweet : Anna Who for me – and I know @oneilllo is a fan too! I'd love to see some of the Attic...
10 October 2015
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness
Mikey is an ordinary teenager. About to finish at high school, worried and excited about the changes college will bring. He isn’t like the indie kids, you know, the ones with...
3 October 2015
When we were animals by Joshua Gaylord
In a small town in America the teenagers run wild every full moon for three days while their parents, and everyone else locks themselves inside, safe. For three nights the teenagers...
27 September 2015
The sky is everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Lennie is seventeen. Her mother went “exploring” when she was a baby, she lives with the Gran and her uncle Big, and until recently her older sister. But Bailey died suddenly,...
9 July 2015
Mud dir. by Jeff Nichols
Ellis (Tye Sheridan) live in Arkansas, on a boat-house, floating on a river1. His father earns a living from the river, catching and selling fish. Ellis’ best friend, Neckbone (Jacob Lofland),...
4 May 2015
Sacred Scars by Kathleen Duey
A resurrection of magic : Book 2 If you haven’t read book one, Skin Hunger, then be warned, this follows on directly from that so there are spoilers for events in...
18 October 2014
Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey
A resurrection of magic ; book 1 Sadima’s mother died in her birthing. The magician paid to help did no such thing; all she did was take the money and leave,...
5 August 2014
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
Read online at Strange Horizons Our unnamed narrator is a teenage girl, working in a restaurant after her mother left, trying to get her father to understand that she isn’t interested...
27 June 2014
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Part of my RIP VIII reading. Book 2 in The Raven Cycle In the first book we learned that Blue Sargent is the only non-psychic in a family full of clairvoyants,...
5 October 2013
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