Emotional Femaleby Yumiko KadotaRating: ★★★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 2nd of March, 2021Australian RRP: $34.99 “Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent’s dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic, she regularly put ‘knife before life’, knowing it was all going to…… Continue reading Book Review: Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
House of Hollowby Krystal SutherlandRating: ★★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 30th of March, 2021Australian RRP: $19.99 “Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at…… Continue reading Book Review: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
American Royals: Majestyby Katherine McGeeRating: ★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 1st of September, 2020Australian RRP: $16.99 “Beatrice Washington now rules America as its first ever queen, but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. No one can know that her heart really belongs…… Continue reading Book Review: Majesty by Katherine McGee
Daisy Jones and The Sixby Taylor Jenkins ReidRating: ★★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 7th of January, 2020Australian RRP: $19.99 “A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up. Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but…… Continue reading Book Review: Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ready Player Twoby Ernest ClineRating: ★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 24th of November, 2020Australian RRP: $32.99 “Days after Oasis founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and…… Continue reading *Spoiler-Free Review* Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
The Magpie Society: One For Sorrowby Zoe Sugg & Amy McCullochRating: ★★★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 29th of October, 2020Australian RRP: $24.99 “Illumen Hall is a boarding school of tradition and achievement. But tragedy strikes when the body of a girl, a student, is discovered – on her back is an elaborate tattoo…… Continue reading *Spoiler Free Review* The Magpie Society by Zoe Sugg & Amy McCulloch
Old Man Emuby John Williamson & Simon McLeanRating: ★★★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 29th of September, 2020Australian RRP: $19.99 “This iconic Australian song tells the very funny tale of the emu and its many traits – good and bad: He can’t fly, but I’m telling you, he can run the pants off a…… Continue reading Book Review: Old Man Emu by John Williamson & Simon McLean
The Treeby Graeme BaseRating: ★★★★★ Published by Penguin Books AustraliaPublication Date: 3rd of November, 2020Australian RRP: $24.99 “This is the story of a cow, a duck and a very big tree.At first the cow and the duck are happy with their mooberries and mushquacks, living side-by-side without even noticing. But then a big storm came……… Continue reading Book Review: The Tree by Graeme Base
The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke Rating: ★★★★ Published by Penguin Books Australia Publication Date: 2nd of July, 2020 Australian RRP: $16.99 “In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1886, when five babies are…… Continue reading Book Review: The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke
House of Dragons by Jessica Cluess Rating: ★★★ Published by Penguin Books Australia Publication Date: 16th of June, 2020 Australian RRP: $19.99 “When the Emperor dies, the five royal houses of Etrusia attend the Call, where one of their own will be selected to compete for the throne. It is always the oldest child, the…… Continue reading Book Review: House of Dragons by Jessica Cluess
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