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Blog Tour – Things to Do Before the End of the World by Emily Barr

Welcome to my stop on the Things to Do Before the End of the World blog tour! Huge thanks to The Write Reads for giving me the opportunity to take part in this! I was provided a copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 06/05/2021
Length: 320 pages
Genre: Young Adult | Dystopian

CW: n/a

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Olivia struggles to live her real life as fully as she wants to. She plans out conversations and events in her head but actually doing them and interacting with other people is hard. When the news breaks that humans have done such damage to the earth that there’s only nine months of safe air left everybody makes bucket lists and starts living their best lives – everyone, that is, but Olivia who is still struggling to figure out who she wants to be.


Then out of the blue comes contact from a long-lost cousin Olivia didn’t even know existed. Natasha is everything Olivia wants to be and more. And as the girls meet up for their last summer on earth Olivia finds Natasha’s ease and self-confidence having a effect on her. But what if Natasha isn’t everything she first appears to be…? 

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Blog Tour – What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson

Welcome to my stop on the What Beauty There Is blog tour! Huge thanks to The Write Reads for giving me the opportunity to take part in this! I was provided a copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 08/04/2021
Length: 368 pages
Genre: Young Adult | Mystery | Thriller

CW: suicide, child abuse, murder, drug use

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Winter. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.

Jack Morton has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he’d do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money.

Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Trust no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up Jack’s trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or help the brothers survive.

Choices. They come at a price.

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The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea

Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 14/11/2019
Length: 392 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction | Gothic

CW: n/a

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When Rósa is betrothed to Jón Eiríksson, she is sent to a remote village. There she finds a man who refuses to speak of his recently deceased first wife, and villagers who view her with suspicion. Isolated and disturbed by her husband’s strange behaviour, her fears deepen.

What is making the strange sounds in the attic?
Who does the mysterious glass figure she is given represent?
And why do the villagers talk of the coming winter darkness in hushed tones?

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 01/09/2020
Length: 246 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction

CW: homophobia

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 02/05/2019
Length: 325 pages
Genre: Greek Mythology | Fantasy | Historical Fiction

CW: slavery

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Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis’s fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.

No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of The Iliad: the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male ego, male violence. But what of the women? The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers’ camp – in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number – and she will be our witness to history.

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