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Category: Fiction

Wink, Poppy, Midnight

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 27 November 201918 November 2019 in Fiction, Reviews

According to Wink, every story contains the same characters. You have a hero, a villain and a liar. These rules also apply to the real world. Wink sees her recently moved boy-next-door as the hero of the story. His ex Poppy …

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 …

A very large expanse of the sea

Posted by Daniƫlle de Boer on 12 October 201916 November 2019 in Fiction, Reviews, Romance

Shirin is used to moving and having to start a new life at school. The 9/11 attacks had a major impact on her life. Nasty words and slurs are constantly being fired at her. Nobody wants to have anything to do with her, just because of her reliion, origins and the hijab she wears. At school, she meets Ocean James, a handsome boy who is genuinely interested in her.

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 …

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.

Far from the tree

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 September 20193 November 2019 in Fiction, LGBTQ+, Reviews

In this book we first meet Grace, a girl that doesn’t really seem to know how to pick up her normal life again after a teen-pregnancy. Being adopted herself, it is hard for her to let her own daughter go. This is why she decides it is time for her to meet her biological family …

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