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Author: Robin Holthuizen

UNpregnant

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 30 October 20195 April 2020 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

Victoria, your typical valedictorian high-school girl has it all: nice friends, a good-looking and popular boyfriend and a scholarship in the pocket. But finding out she’s pregnant has messed everything up …

Fangirl

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 23 October 201922 October 2019 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

When Cath and her twinsister Wren go to the University of Nebraska to study, Cath has a lot of things to process. Because they used to do everything together, it comes as a big surprise to hear that Gwen doesn’t want Cath to be her roommate …

Carve the mark

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 16 October 20195 April 2020 in Reviews, Sci-Fi

In a solar system where something called ‘the current’ develops into a different gift in each of it’s inhabitants, every planet is another polity. On one of those planets – Thuvhe – there are two nations fighting to reign the planet. Cyra, a Shotet, has been used as a weapon by her brother since she first found out her gift…

What red was

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 9 October 20197 October 2019 in Realistic, Reviews

This story begins with an interaction between Kate, a silent girl with a single mother, and Max, a popular and social boy with connections to a well-known person. A patonic, somewhat weird friendship is born. Years go by, not affecting the friendship between Kate and Max. But at a graduationparty at Max’ place …

They both die at the end

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 2 October 20192 October 2019 in Fiction, LGBTQ+, Reviews

In the world as main-characters Mateo and Rufus know it, there’s an organisation that knows when people are about to die. Mateo gets his Death-Cast in the middle of the night. From that moment, he knows he will only have 24 hours to live, maybe even less…

Five feet apart

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 September 201916 October 2019 in Fiction, Reviews

In Saint Grace’s hospital, that she has been calling her second home since she was six, Stella suddenly meets Will. They both suffer from CF – short for Cystic Fibrosis – which means that their lungs make it more and more difficult to breath every day. At first sight, Stella doesn’t like the rebellious Will at all …

Body Positive Power

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 September 201925 September 2019 in Non-fiction, Reviews

In this book about Body Positivity, Megan Jayne Crabbe slowly breaks down the toxic world of diets to show her readers what they have missed all along: a world in which your size doesn’t determine your worth.

The Grace Year

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 September 201925 September 2019 in Dystopian, Fiction, Reviews

Everything they say about this book is true. A real recommendation for fans of The Hungergames, The Handmaids Tale or Lord of the Flies. Or for people who just want to read an awesome book.

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