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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 …

Clownsnacht

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 19 October 201927 October 2019 in Reviews, Thriller

Fara, a fifteen-year-old girl, is going to watch Marnix and Suzie on clown night. Clown night is a tradition in Westerdam of which nobody really knows it’s origin. Fara gets the children to bed and sits herself comfortably on the couch. Suzie starts to cry and tells Fara that a clown was standing next to her bed.

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…

A very large expanse of the sea

Posted by Daniëlle 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.

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 …

Obsidian

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 5 October 20197 October 2019 in Fantasy, Reviews

After the death of Katy’s father, she moves to West Virginia with her mother. Katy is not thrilled about this, but she decides to make the best of it. She calls on the neighbours and meets Daemon and Dee.

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…

Dance or Die

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 28 September 201929 September 2019 in Realistic, Reviews, Thriller

In the last book of the Truth or Dance series, India is in her final year at the dance academy. India and her friends Lisa, Zoë and Nikki are still being ‘harassed’ by their anonymous stalker who sends them nasty messages and forces the girls to do terrible things. This year the girls have a strong feeling that their stalker is more dangerous than ever.

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