Selina Ann's Shelf

The Cruel Prince By Holly Black Book one of The Folk of the Air trilogy My Rating: ★★★★★ Genres: YA Fiction, Fantasy, Romance When Jude was seven, her parents were brutally murdered by her human mother's ex-husband, Madoc, who also turns out to be the father of her eldest sister, from a land of faeries named 'Elfhame'.  He steals away Jude, her twin sister Taryn and his daughter Vivienne, and brings them to a new home in the High Court.  Now aged seventeen, Jude still lives in Faerie, but she has never felt like she has truly 'fitted in' as one of the only human inhabitants. She is desperate to belong and escape the clutch of the bullying, vicious, human-despising Prince Cardan, who makes it a challenge to torment her and Taryn daily for no apparent reason other than that they are humans. Jude is aware that she doesn't particularly have any talents other than fighting and so, with that in mind, she decides that the way for her to win her posi...

Radio Silence  By Alice Oseman My Rating: ★★★★★ Genres: YA fiction, LGBTQ+, Coming-of-age Radio Silence follows a year twelve, seemingly perfect student named Frances Janvier. Since Frances was a young child, she has had only one dream: going to a top university. She will do anything to achieve this dream, including shoving her real self so deep down inside of her that it is as if the girl she truly is is a whole different person. Yet when Frances befriends her neighbour, Aled Last, the walls she has placed in front of her true personality begin to break down. Soon Frances is pulled into almost a new world for her, a world where she does not have to hide who she is. But when Aled's secret online identity is revealed, the growing trust between them is shattered and Aled leaves for university soon after.  Frances no longer knows if the dream future she created for herself is the future she really wants and Aled faces far darker forces whilst studying at uni....