One Too Many Lies by L A Bowen

Paige along with Kate and Abby her best friends skip school where she meets Morgan at a party where they take part in drinking, trying drugs and playing party games while still having a crush at school on Alex.

Am while lying to their parents about w where they're going and staying out late after sneaking out first...

Told in verse this is a powerful tale of growing up and struggling to fit in and find love as well as acceptance with their friends about their lifestyle. As the lies build up we see how they have to deal with the consequences which teaches us the lesson about karma and never assume everything will be fine. It was hard hitting and real dealing with issues teens will probably come across.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

What Lexie Did by Emma Shevah

Lexie and Eleni are as close as twins, growing up together after spending their lives literally by each others sides as Lexie helped Eleni stay alive after she had to have many operations on her heart as a young baby.

Now, their huge Greek family is divided after a lie and secrets hidden from the family by Lexie. Also missing Eleni as she becomes best friends with new girl Anastasia Lexus feels left out and a bit lonely.

As she tries to get her mum talking to her sister and her family again to reunite the two halves of their huge family once again, she comes to realise how different life could've been growing up but more importantly that the truth is always best and lying is the worst thing ever not to mention how her grandma and God would feel watching her lie to everyone...

A family divided by a lie this book shows how harmful lies can be and the impact they have on all those effected not just the one person telling the lie. We see how friendships can be changed and how death can cause people to react differently. It's an emotional and honest book sure to win your heart.

That's Not What Happened by Kody Kepplinger

Leanne lost her friend Sarah at school during a massacre when a male sixteen year old opened fire killing nine students. Only now Leanne is setting the record straight and has discovered the truth about what happened by getting the survivors and her now friends to write their account of the day's events in letter form.

Eden a gay girl, Miles a troublemaker and Denny, a blind student with a guide dog Labrador called Glitter also witnessed the attack as well as Kellie a goth girl, from in the bathroom where Sarah the so called religious girl was killed too with Leanne her best friend witnessing it all happen.

I liked the book featuring a mix of disabled and asexual characters as it's against the normal seen in young adult never too often. The aspect of a shooter as a sixteen year old in a place of legal gun use too was interesting and showed a further element of mystery about the shooter into the mix though I was disappointed in how little we see his story and whether he was known to all the group. It felt truly authentic and horrific alike when a real American shooting has taken place sadly and I'm glad it was fiction and not fact for once. It was a greatly emotional and moving story especially in a time where acts like this can be committed at any time it seems.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Behind Closed Doors by Miriam Halahmy

Josie lives with her mum in their house full of her mum's so called treasure, which is just charity shop buys hoarded so much they can't use hardly any rooms of their house and all their money funds the collection.

Tash lives with her mum and at times her mum's creepy boyfriend who seems to fancy Tash and make creepy advances towards her touching and striking her as well as trying to get into her room late at night.

When Josie's mum forgets to pay the council tax, she ends up in prison and Tash finds solace in the secret hoarder house after Josie confides in her about her mum and meets Tash stay as she isn't safe at home.

Throughout the novel we are the girls struggle to cope on hardly any money and having to plan showers, washing and food, as well as deal with serious criminals and getting boyfriends. It's light and dark, mixed in moods as they face better and worse times as they fight to survive together and not get taken into care. It was a remarkable read, fighting to survive and being made homeless aren't seen enough in YA books and this sets the standard.

Editing Emma by Chloe Seager

Comprised of internet posts day to day over September and October, as a form of online diary blog after her boyfriend Leon ghosts her, we follow Emma as she tries to move on. She starts to date Greg as Leon dates Anna or 'Apple ' and follow her life as shecopes with friendship drama and her private blog being made public knowledge!

We also see her friend Faith struggle to come out to her parents, Gracie and Emma falling out, Steph being on hand to try and help Emma move on with someone new and witness the antics of her wild mother trying to date and even including attending dance classes with her!

Grace, Steph and Faith are a typical friendship group as they help each other with coming out, dealing with break ups and generally cheering each other on as they negotiate school. Reminiscent of Georgia Nicholson, these teens are the modern version as they rely on the internet and social media to be in the loop and connected at all times. The book has a great plot showing the dangers and benefits of online and is a great slice of teen fiction.

The Holiday Cottage By The Sea by Holly Martin

Tori is staying with her best friend Melody after losing the love of her life, Luc ands deciding to take a break from work in London and follow her friends to the countryside and seaside.

What she doesn't expect, is Aidan a handsome stranger she gets predicted to marry minutes after her arrival! Agatha, whom predicts her possible future marriage also leads her astray in her plans for tattoos and piercings, a real rebel lady and quite a character as she predicts more marriages amongst the villagers.

As she is an animator, she also agrees to help make and market an animation for heartberry to drum up some more trade business for them.

Meanwhile, her main reason of stay to partake in fruit picking turns out to be at night, allowing her and Aidan time alone together...

From shared hobbies to finding fiery passion after both having failed in love before with previous partners and shared family drama's, there's a lot the pair bond over and soon enough we see they were meant to be as it's natural how they collide lives. Everywhere sounds so idyllic and I loved Beast the tearaway wild dog who's girlfriend is called Beauty! It was a read to give you a case of the warm fuzzies and it didn't disappoint in any way at all, a cute and love fuelled read!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

The Summer Of Us by Cecilia Vinesse

Eighteen year old's, Aubrey and Rae are best friends but both dealing with a lot. Leaving to travel on trains from London to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Amsterdam, Florence, Rome and Barcelona along with their friends, Gabe, Jonah and Clara.

However the travelling makes things hard on them all after
Jonah catches Aubrey and Gabe kissing and it's not the first time they've kissed either...

Meanwhile Rae fancies Clara but believes she is straight so when she shocks her with what she tells her a spark of hope just might get struck alight within her heart...

As all the friends wind up in two's after Aubrey and Gabe's kiss,
there's parties, arguments, new couple's forming and whilst Rae doesn't want to move to Australia and fears letting to of everything and everyone, she realises they're all going to feel the same no mate how much they don't want to separate, it's just how life goes.

The book was told from a split perspective between Aubrey and Rae as it also features the girls romantic relationships predominantly as Aubrey has a heterosexual relationship whilst Rae has a lesbian relationship.

The descriptive writing of the girls describing things was really great and some nice metaphors were used throughout, the places they travel to felt real and the characters falling for each other was totally believable.

Over all it was a great travel book and is perfect for anyone heading off to university themselves and it could be reassuring for them in how they feel about moving being totally valid.

Get ready for adventure and self discovery!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

What's A Girl Gotta Do? By Holly Bourne

Lottie is having a hard time, her hippie parents are pushing her to attend Cambridge or Oxford so she can follow her dream of being prime minister which is great until they want her to stop the spinster club!

Whilst the spinster club is thriving and helping her immensely after she faces sexual harassment every morning walking by some pervy builders who feel it's okay to catcall her and make comments I'm glad to say she sticks it to them well and stuffs them good and proper.

As Lottie and Will get closer, hanging out more and teasing each other tons soon they find themselves facing facts that they like each other more than friends when an argument fires their passion...

It was great to read the next spinster club installment but I do think it could have been shorter as there was more on feminism issues as is Lottie and the girl's passion which obviously isn't a bad thing, however the book did feel like a bit of a trawl through and not as great as the two before it unfortunately.

Jessica Darling's It List 3: Totally Not Guaranteed Guide by Megan McCafferty

After taking her sisters crushability test, an accident sees it wind up in the hands of her crush, Marcus!

Sets on finding out if he knows how she feels she drops hints he doesn't seemingly pick up on...

At school there's also petitions set up by Sara and Manda as they both fight to get the school dance back by trying to outdo each other on the amounts of signatures they can get. Leaving Jess and Hope to sign one friends each to make it fair.

Then comes a the announcement by the school that they'll be having... a square dance and not the disco/prom/sophisticated dance anyone dreams of having. The school makes them parted up boy and girl landing Jess in another situation with Scott yet again!

As Jess faces dancing with Scott and facing the consequences later, she is suddenly saved. By being kicked out of their square dance group! Will she be able to attend and fins out how Marcus truly feels about her?

A fun read full of the joy's of teenage life in school.

Kiss Cam by Kiara London

Jasper, June and Lenny run a successfully partnered channel with a YouTube style company called Vlog It. They do dares and q and a's whilst fans love Jasiper and shipping a couple out of the three.

Lenny becomes a back part member as fans challenge Jasiper to do a kiss cam challenge meaning that they kiss in a q and a but then fans want more.

A whole series over Christmas in fact, which once complete after they started with a shared promise of no feelings threatens to tear their friendship and channel apart.

Then when Jasper starts to get close to Elaina, we see their friendship sort of resolve until Alison listens to her friends woes about it all and points out what June hasn't realised yet.

Maybe June and Jasper are meant to be more than friends and just kissing buddies after all?

For me it wasn't the best book around YouTubers and navigating those friendship to romance relationships, yet it was fun with the challenges set by fan's and it did flow better than some books by more established authors.

A cute contemporary for teens and tweens who love relationships around YouTube and online personality's.

The Haters by Jesse Andrews

At a jazz camp, two friends, Wes and Corey meet Ash, a different girl who's billionaire father funds the trio via credit card usage to go on their 'The Haters Summer Of Hate' tour in Ash's van.

They believe touring around will get them heard and sounding better than any summer camp would ever achieve for them all.

The name being The Haters for the band is simply caused by them enjoying music types to a certain degree because they hate it so much. It's so awful, it's good kind of feelings.

Through their touring they make many friends, perform in restaurants and other small areas to get heard before finally their parents track them down which we only hear from them at the end which I thought as they'd be missing from camp and not home, police would have found them sooner surely?

Overall it didn't thrill me, many jokes fell flat for me, I don't like boys typical humour though that's alike many girls and I found the story to have a lagging beginning that I ended up skipping through to get to the more adventurous parts of the book and despite it picking up in certain areas with some drama, it failed to make me love it.

Jelly Baby by Jean Ure

When their aunt Cass moves out and new step mum in, everything changes for these two sisters.

Flora and Emily begin to feel unhappy and uncomfortable with to situation as pokes about their weight, diet, clothes, cleaning of the house routine and their beloved cat get too much.

Em runs away back to her aunt Cass who now lives in Brighton were she runs her business, leaving Flora distraught and resulting in her and their dad coming clean about the step mum situation.

This book is a quick read but quite a necessary one, many children grow up in homes where they're not listened to and so suffer. In this book, their father may not listen at first but proves persistence pays off as he puts his family first over any love attempts and shows what parenting should be like when it restsbon one set of shoulders, he wanted the best and kept it that way eventually.