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The Betrothed

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 30 May 20205 June 2020 in Fiction, Reviews, Romance

Meet Hollis Brite, a girl that grew up in Keresken Castle like all the other daughters of the noblemen in Coroa, forever trying to catch the attention of King Jameson. His Highness was never really looking for a queen, until Hollis came around. He confesses his love for her through gifts and silly remarks, hinting at a possible engagement …

Odd one out

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 23 May 202023 May 2020 in LGBTQ+, Reviews, Romance

Jupiter and Courtney are best friends. They are always together and tell each other almost everything. Courtney has been in love with Jupiter for years, which is inaccessible because she likes girls. When a girl named Rae steps into their two best friends life, Courtney is attracted to her. Jupiter is also into Rae. Meanwhile, Rae doesn’t know if she likes Courtney or Rae. When Jupiter threatens to lose her best friend to the girl she likes, she takes a very drastic decision that will change everything…

An Enchantment of Ravens

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 16 May 202016 May 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

In this standalone high-fantasy novel, we’re thrown into a world that consists of four regions, each one named after the season every region has always lived in. Isobel, a painter living in the endless summers of Whimsy, has to be very cautious when it comes to her clients. The fair folk cannot create Craft themselves, so they turn to humans to create it for them. And Isobel was doing great: her beautiful portaits have become a phenomenon among the fair folk …

Legendary

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 9 May 20209 May 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

Legendary is the second part of the Caraval series. The book begins where the first part ended with Donatella waking up after Caraval’s closing party. In this part, you follow Donatella and find out that Donatella has made a deal with someone she doesn’t know to be able to participate in Caraval. Now she has to pay for this with information that Donatella can only get if she wins Caraval. The thing Donatella really wants is to find her mother, who disappeared many years ago. In order to achieve this, she must find out the identity of Legend.

Tweet Cute

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 2 May 202016 May 2020 in Reviews, Romance

This story revolves around Jack and Pepper, two teens assigned to run their family’s businesses Twitteraccounts. Pepper’s family owns the large chain restaurant Big League Burger and Jack’s family is known for their small deli in New York: Girl Cheesing. After BLB introduces a new burger on their menu, Jack is certain it’s a ripoff from their own specialty. He tweets something snarky about it on Twitter, not knowing that BLB was going to fire back …

Tiny Pretty Things

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 25 April 202025 April 2020 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

In this book, we follow three students at a ballet school in Manhattan. The three girls Gigi, June and Bette are completely different from each other. In the ballet world, there is only one way to distinguish yourself from other ballerinas and that is to be the best of the best. The three girls do everything they can to reach the top and they’re also prepared to play nasty tricks.

Daisy

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 18 April 202016 May 2020 in Reviews, Thriller

Disclaimer: This book is only available in Dutch! ‘You’ll finish this one in no-time!’ Summary Meet Daisy, a woman who seems to have it all: a nice job, two loving parents, a home for herself and an amazing husband called…

The surface breaks

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 11 April 202011 April 2020 in Fantasy, Reviews

Deep in the sea, on the cold Irish coast, mermaid Gaia dreams of a life without her tyrannical father. Gaia is the youngest of six sisters and is praised for this by her father. Gaia’s mother died on her first birthday and Gaia would like to find out what the human world had to do with her moms passing. When she finally gets to swim to the surface on her fifteenth birthday, she falls in love with a human boy. She longs for a life above water. But how high is the price she has to pay for this?

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