FRANKIE BY SHIVAUN PLOZZA

Rating: 5 stars

Goodreads Book Description: Frankie Vega is angry. Just ask the guy whose nose she broke. Or the cop investigating the burglary she witnessed, or her cheating ex-boyfriend or her aunt who's tired of giving second chances...When a kid shows up claiming to be Frankie's half brother, it opens the door to a past she doesn't want to remember. And when that kid goes missing, the only person willing to help is a boy with stupidly blue eyes … and secrets of his own. Frankie's search for the truth might change her life, or cost her everything.

My Review: Frankie follows the story of a difficult, troubled character that quite often doesn’t make the best decisions but she’s easy to relate to. Frankie’s troubles start with her past which leas to her using one of Shakespeare’s books to rearrange someone’s face. Her aunt, Vinnie, has looked after Frankie for almost all of her life and is very protective when Xavier appears. Xavier claims to be her half-brother who also hasn’t had the best experience in life and just as she’s getting to know him, he disappears.

I absolutely loved Frankie, how eccentric and quirky she is. The adventure she goes on throughout this book to find Xavier, befriending Nate, sneaking out at night, discovering more about her past, etc. It was all so thrilling and kept me on the edge of my seat!

I would recommend this to those looking for a new YA Author (not to mention, Shivaun Plozza is Australian) and an adventure like no other.

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YELLOW BY MEGAN JACOBSON

Rating: 5 stars

Goodreads Book Description:

If fourteen-year-old Kirra is having a mid-life crisis now, then it doesn't bode well for her life expectancy. Her so-called friends bully her, whatever semblance of a mother she had has been drowned at the bottom of a gin bottle ever since her dad left them for another woman, and now a teenage ghost is speaking to her through a broken phone booth. Kirra and the ghost make a pact. She'll prove who murdered him almost twenty years ago if he does three things for her. He makes her popular, he gets her parents back together, and he doesn't haunt her. Things aren't so simple however, and Kirra realises that people can be haunted in more ways than one.

My Review:

I was in Brisbane on holiday recently and this was one of my holiday reads as Yellow is released Feb 1^st, therefore I wanted to read it and review it before it was released. I am so happy I made that decision!

Kirra’s story was one that I’ve never read anything like before, full of issues that many teenagers go through but are never revealed to those around them.

Megan Jacobson has written Yellow in a way to truly captures the reader and draws them in. “It’s like the space between the words in the kind of book that makes you stop and just rest the pages on your chest…” and that is quite literally what went down when reading Yellow.

A huge thank you to Penguin Teen Australia for giving me this at their event PTA Live and also to Megan Jacobson for writing such a unique and beautiful story, all the best with the release of Yellow!

Release Date: February 1^st 2016

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