The Overflowing Library

Summer Holidays are now here. Insane amounts of reading have commenced ...

Books read in July

112) Witch Hunt by Ruth Warburton (British Books Challenge)
113) Winger by Andrew Smith
114) Zero Hour by Will Hill (British Books Challenge)
115) A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
116) Come back to me by Mila Gray (British Books Challenge)
117) The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
118) Pink by Lili Wilkinson
119) Derby Girl by Shauna Cross
120) Threads by Sophia Bennett (British Books Challenge)
121) Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (British Books Challenge)
122) Lies like Love by Louisa Reid (British Books Challenge)
123) Pea's book of best friends by Susie Day (British Books Challenge)
124) Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor
125) Buffy the Vampre Slayer Omnibus #4
126) Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton (British Books Challenge)
127) Sorry about me by Laura Dockrill (British Books Challenge)
128) Dawn by Eve Edwards (British Books Challenge)
129) Waterborn by Rachel Ward…

Rosie has managed to wangle spending the summer before uni in the same house as her boyfriend Cal – but who else should also be staying except for the infamous man-eater, Cleo.

Things between Cal and Rosie could never have been described as easy, but her growing jealousy seems like an unstoppable force. Can their love weather the storm?

My thoughts
I have been waiting for this book for ages and couldn't read it quick enough. I loved it because it was Funny, heartfelt and really sweet. It felt me to like a Sarra Manning novel comparable to the Diary of a Crush series.


I particularly loved Rosie and all her worrying as she was definitely a character I could relate to with my crazed worrying and OCD list making.

My very geeky side adored the pop culture references particularly those that referenced His Dark Materials,

A book I adored and a series I would thoroughly recommend

Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.

With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart.

Filled with hand-drawn info-graphics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teen’s experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking

My thoughts

Winger is one of those books that you pick up and happily read and laugh along to before it unexpectedly smashes you in the chest and leaves you an emotional wreck.

I…

When Summer's mom died, her life is turned upside down

Summer's mother's will states that Summer's legal guardian is her uncle Tristan: a man Summer has never even heard of before. Forced to leave her life in London, Summer moves to Tristan's creepy, ancient house in Cornwall. There she is met with indifference from him, open hostility from her cousin, and an aunt who has chosen to leave rather than to tolerate her presence. Soon Summer comes to believe that the house may be haunted. But is it haunted by ghosts, or by the shadows of her family's past? Scared and lonely, Summer begins to spend more and more time in the beautiful sheltered cove she discovers nearby. But she's not alone. A local boy frequents it too. Can Summer find first love and the answers to the mysteries of her new home with this good-looking boy who appears to be too perfect to be true?

My thoughts
This was an OK read. I happily read it and enjoyed it well enough. I loved the se…