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Blog Tour Review - Looking for Lucie by Amanda Addison

 Blog Tour Review - Looking for Lucie by Amanda Addison "Where are you really from?" It's a question every brown girl in a white-washed town is familiar with, and one that Lucie has never been able to answer. All she knows is that her mother is white, she's never met her father, and she looks nothing like the rest of her family. She can't even talk about it because everyone says it shouldn't matter! Well, it matters to Lucie and-with her new friend Nav, who knows exactly who he is-she's determined to find some answers. What do you do when your entire existence is a question with no answer? You do a DNA test. Looking for Lucie is a fascinating look at what it is like growing up mixed race in contemporary Britain. It's a story about family and culture, and what they can mean for different people, as Lucie tries to figure out where she fits into the world. She doesn't look like any of the rest of her family, and her ethnicity is impossible to figure o
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Review - The Revelry by Katherine Webber

 Review - The Revelry by Katherine Webber

Growing up in Ember Grove, Bitsy Clark knows better than to break the rules around the Revelry, the mysterious end-of-year party in the woods. So when her best friend, Amy, persuades her to sneak in, Bitsy is full of misgivings.
Misgivings that she should have listened to, because it’s after the Revelry that Bitsy’s luck turns and her life starts to unravel. For Amy it’s the opposite, as if she’s been blessed with good fortune.
Soon Bitsy is convinced that the Revelry has tied the two friends together in a curse that only she can break…


What a stunning book! 

The Revelry was one of those books where I had no idea what to expect when I started reading it, and was just blown away by it. A town built on secrets, with hidden and mysterious parties in the woods. Two close friends who just have to sneak in and find out more about it. I was so excited to find out what happened at these revelries. And then, like Bitsy, our main protagonist, I was just told "Nope. You don't get to see that." Honestly it was frustrating and infuriating and just made me want to keep reading and delve deeper into this mystery. 

What comes next was done so masterfully! The drip feeding of flashbacks, as Bitsy, and the reader, slowly see bits of what happened that night in the woods. Meeting new and intriguing characters with their own mystery about them. And the things that start to go wrong, subtle enough to leave us questioning is it a curse or is it all just coincidental? Is there dark magics afoot or is Bitsy losing it? 

The woods are a character all of their own, and this was something else I absolutely loved. They just have so much presence, so much personality, power and mystery. Every time someone went into the woods, the tension was immediately raised.

Dark, mysterious and beautiful, The Revelry is a gorgeous book!

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The Revelry by Katherine Webber is out now and published by Walker Books.
I was given a review copy via Netgalley in return for an honest review.
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