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Devoted

Jennifer Mathieu

Apr 24, 2019
3 min

Devoted

3.5/5 STARS Publisher: Hachette Australia Release Date: February 2019 RRP: $16.99 AUD Paperback Rachel Walker's family and community have turned away from the world. Every part of Rachel's life is controlled, from what she reads to where she goes and what she wears. Her parents dictate how her life must be: marriage, modesty, children and obedience to her future husband. But when a former member of her community, a girl who escaped, moves back to her small Texas town, Rachel'

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Skylarks

Aug 13, 2018
2 min

Skylarks

3.5/5 STARS • Publication: July 2018 • Publisher: Bloomsbury Australia • RRP: $16.99 AUD When she was little, Joni used to have dreams that she could fly. But these days her feet are firmly on the ground – they have to be when money's tight and her dad can't work and the whole family has to pull together to keep afloat. Then she meets Annabel. Annabel is everything Joni isn't, and yet there's a spark between them. Though Joni barely believes it at first, she thinks

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Furyborn

Jun 12, 2018
3 min

Furyborn

4.5/5 STARS Publication Date: May 2018 Publisher: Sourcefire Books RRP $17.99 AUD When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to

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Legendary

Stephanie Garber

May 28, 2018
3 min

Legendary

Publication Date: 29/05/2018 Publisher: Hachette Australia RRP: $19.99 5/5 STARS A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver:

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The Beast's Heart

Leife Shallcross

May 15, 2018
3 min

The Beast's Heart

4/5 STARS Publication Date: May 2018 Publisher: Hachette Australia RRP: $19.99 AUD I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both. I am the Beast. The day I was cursed to this wretched existence was the day I was saved—although it did not feel so at the time. My redemption sprung from contemptible roots; I am not proud of what I did the day her father happened upon my crumbling, isolated chateau. But if loneliness breeds desperation then I was desperate indeed, and I did what I f

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Lifel1k3

May 8, 2018
3 min

Lifel1k3

5/5 STARS Publication date: 9th May 2018 Publisher: Allen & Unwin RRP: $19.99 On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the grave was the fistful of credits she just lost to the bookies. To top it off, she’s discovered she

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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo

May 6, 2018
3 min

To Kill a Kingdom

Publication: May 2018 Allen&Unwin $19.99 5/5 STARS Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human

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Ash Princess

Laura Sebastian

May 1, 2018
3 min

Ash Princess

4/5 STARS Publication Date: 24/04/2018 Publisher: Pan Macmillan RRP: $16.99 AUD Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia's family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess--a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner. For ten years Theo has been a captive in her own palace. She's endured the relentless abuse and ridicule of the Kaiser and his cour

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Ace of Shades

Apr 23, 2018
3 min

Ace of Shades

4/5 STARS Publication Date: 23rd April 2018 Harlequin Aus – Imprint of HarperCollins RRP: $19.99 AUD Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school—and her reputation—behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted. Frightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. Unfortunately, Levi is no

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Children of Blood and Bone

Mar 13, 2018
3 min

Children of Blood and Bone

Publication Date: 13th March 2018 Pan Macmillan Australia RRP: 16.99 4.5/5 STARS Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike

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Goodbye, Perfect

Feb 8, 2018
3 min

Goodbye, Perfect

4/5 STARS Publication date: 13th February 2018 Pan Macmillan Australia RRP: $16.99 Eden McKinley knows she can’t count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it’s a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their GCSEs. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that the boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr Cohn

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Shadowsong

Feb 5, 2018
3 min

Shadowsong

5/5 STARS • Publication Date; 6th of February 2018 • St. Martin’s Press Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother’s and her own musical careers. Although she is determined to look forward and not behind, life in the world above is not as easy as Liesl had hoped. Her younger brother Josef is cold, distant, and withdrawn, while Liesl can’t forget the austere young man she left beneath the earth, and the music he inspired

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Devils & Thieves

Jan 31, 2018
3 min

Devils & Thieves

5/5 STARS Power corrupts. Magic kills. Eighteen-year-old Jemmie Carmichael is surrounded by magic in the quiet town of Hawthorne, New York. In her world, magic users are called “kindled,” and Jemmie would count herself among them if only she could cast a simple spell without completely falling apart. It doesn't help that she was also recently snubbed by Crowe—the dangerous and enigmatic leader of Hawthorne’s kindled motorcycle gang, the Devils’ League. When the entire kindled

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Everless

Dec 20, 2017
3 min

Everless

5/5 STARS Time is a prison. She is the key. Packed with danger, temptation and desire - a perfect read for fans of The Red Queen. In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything - even time. Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days and years have been extracted from blood and bound to iron coins. The rich live for centuries; the poor bleed themselves dry. Jules and her father are behind on their rent and low on hours. To stop him from draining himself to cle

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Unearthed

Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Nov 27, 2017
3 min

Unearthed

5/5 STARS Genre: Fiction/ YA Sci-Fi Published: AUS 22/11/2017 by Allen&Unwin RRP: $19.99 When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered. For Jules Addison and his fellow scholars, the discovery of an alien culture offer

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Nevermoor

Jessica Townsend

Nov 8, 2017
3 min

Nevermoor

5/5 STARS Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of

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Strange The Dreamer

Jun 4, 2017
3 min

Strange The Dreamer

5/5 STARS The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his cha

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Queens of Geek

May 15, 2017
2 min

Queens of Geek

5/5 STARS When BFFs Charlie, Taylor and Jamie go to SupaCon, they know it’s going to be a blast. What they don’t expect is for it to change their lives forever. Charlie likes to stand out. SupaCon is her chance to show fans she’s over her public breakup with co-star, Reese Ryan. When Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie’s long-time crush on her isn’t as one-sided as she thought. While Charlie dodges questions about her personal life, Taylor starts a

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A Court of Wings & Ruin

May 11, 2017
4 min

A Court of Wings & Ruin

5/5 STARS Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit-and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre m

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Caraval

Stephanie Garber

May 4, 2017
2 min

Caraval

5/5 STARS Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show.

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