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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Into The Water, by Paula Hawkins
After the success of her first explosive thriller, The Girl On The Train, Into the Water meets the level of intensity we were hoping for...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Aug 10, 20212 min read
Jane Unlimited, by Kristin Cashore
Nothing was more exciting to this reader than the drop of Jane Unlimited. Kristin Cashore’s immense imagination, beautiful writing style...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Aug 3, 20211 min read
Roar, by Cecelia Ahern.
Known more for her stunning romantic novels Cecelia Ahern gifts us with a series of incredibly written and well explored short stories in...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jul 27, 20212 min read
Surrender None: The Legacy Of Gird, by Elizabeth Moon.
Possibly one of the greatest female fantasy writers of our time Elizabeth Moon explores the foundations of her fantastic world from The...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jul 20, 20211 min read
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre is a forever classic. Though the book itself offers many of the dry tones of its time of publication in 1847, the storyline is...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jul 8, 20212 min read
The Sin Eater’s Daughter, by Melinda Salisbury
The Sin Eaters Daughter is the amazing debut novel by new British author Melinda Salisbury and has already cemented her place on every YA...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Apr 20, 20212 min read
Skyhunter, Marie Lu
Marie Lu can do nothing but astound with her novels, and proves she still has a lot to give with Skyhunter. At first Skyhunter rings...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Apr 13, 20212 min read
Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer
Did we need a return to the world of Twilight? Did we need to know the story from Edwards perspective? Definitely not. Did we buy the...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Apr 6, 20212 min read
Dark Blue Rising, Teri Terry
Climate change effects us all, but how do we make everyday citizens, and big corporations, care about this catastrophic event? Teri Terry...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 30, 20212 min read
Swam Thing, Twin Branches, Maggie Stiefvater and Morgan Beem
Maggie Stiefvater's exploration into comic's is a beautiful transcendence to behold. A story written by Maggie Stiefvater and illustrated...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 23, 20212 min read
Burn, Patrick Ness
Picture the world, but with dragons. This is what Patrick Ness asks us to do in Burn. In one, stimulating, novel Ness makes us fall in...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 16, 20213 min read
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
There are some stories we didn't realise we needed to know until we've read them. While we all certainly wanted more from Suzanne...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Mar 9, 20212 min read
Crescent City House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas
It seems impossible for Sarah J. Maas to have a bad story idea, and this introduction to The Crescent City series proves once again that...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Feb 23, 20212 min read
Hold Back The Tide, Melinda Salisbury
A small book which has the power to shatter your world. For everything I expected from Melinda Salisbury's Hold Back The Tide I was...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Feb 16, 20214 min read
Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy, Kevin Kwan
If there were ever a case of the book being far better than the movie adaptation it is found here, in Crazy Rich Asians. Heralded as the...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Feb 9, 20215 min read
My Top 5 Non-Fiction Reads
Even the greatest reader of fiction has those few non-fiction books on their shelves which stand out to them as must reads. Here are the...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jan 19, 20212 min read
Why Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn Should be Read Back-to-Back
Though released a year apart Sarah J. Maas’s most recent instalments in the Throne of Glass series work in parallel to one another within...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jan 12, 20212 min read
The Walls Around Us
What would you do to be the best? What would you do to remove your competition? What if the final judge could see everything you’ve done?...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Jan 5, 20211 min read
Swarm
Following Zeroes, Swarm written in collaboration with Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti brings back the group of...
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Anna-Roisin Ullman-Smith
Dec 29, 20202 min read
The Midnight Star
The final instalment in The Young Elites series from talented writer Marie Lu will leave you desperate for more from this incredible...
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