==Teens==
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{{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Torment|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Right, first things first. If you haven't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]], go read it - or at least read a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|review]] to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers for the earlier Lauren Kate novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
|summary=Those of you who read my review of the [[Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark Secrets]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that book. This is a similar proposition – two average-sized teen novels packaged together in a very good value volume. Both are set in Wisteria, Maryland. Both feature teenage girls looking for closure on past events, with dark secrets buried in their past – and both are guaranteed to capture the imagination of their target audience of teen girls, and of a fair few other readers besides.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416994629</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=L J Smith
|title=Forbidden Game
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=While looking for a game to play for her boyfriend's birthday, Jenny Thorn comes across a strange shop she's never seen before. Going in, she talks to a handsome boy who sells her a mysterious game in a plain box. But when she and her friends open the game to play it, they're transported to a world where the boy is the Shadow Man, and the consequence of losing the game can be deadly. The group of teens are left fighting against their worst nightmares as they try to defeat the sinister Shadow Man and escape – but when some of them finally do get out, they realise that it's just the beginning of the nightmare for them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387381</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tabitha Suzuma
|title=Forbidden
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Maya is sixteen, pretty, sociable and wise beyond her years. But she's never been kissed. Lochan is seventeen, drop-dead gorgeous and most of the girls at his school have crushes on him. He's also highly intelligent, at the top of his class and heading off to a good London university and on the cusp of a bright future. But he's never kissed a girl. You'd think then, that when these two teenagers kiss for the first time, it would be the beginning of a gorgeous first love affair, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong. Because Maya and Lochan are brother and sister...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862308160</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Linda Strachan
|title=Dead Boy Talking
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''They say it takes about 25 minutes to bleed to death. I want to scream and yell but there's no one here to hear me and I... I can't breath enough to yell anyway. I'm going to die here, all on my own.''
Josh is lying in the snow in an alleyway in a pool of his own blood. He stabbed one of his best mates yesterday, and now it's happened to him. He knows he's dying and his thoughts turn to how this could possibly have happened. He wonders where Skye is and what she's doing. He hopes Danny is ok. And, as he goes over the events of the day before, which culminated in his stabbing Ranj, his missing brother Gary keeps intruding into the picture. Why did he go? And did his parents' obsession with Gary's disappearance play a part in what's happened?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537204</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Samantha Mackintosh
|title=Kisses for Lula
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Girls do worry, about all sorts of things. And one of the things they enjoy worrying about most is whether or not they are passing the milestones on life's journey at the same time as everyone else. The fact that they combine this with loud demands to be treated to be an individual is a major reason for stress-related hair-loss and gibbering in parents. Lula is no exception here. Her sixteenth birthday is approaching fast, and unless she gets kissed before then (by pretty well anyone: she's desperate) she is convinced she will be jinxed for life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249625</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin Brooks
|title=iBoy
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Tom Harvey is wandering along after school on his way to meet up with his friend Lucy when he hears his name called from up high in one of the tower blocks on his estate. He doesn't have time to look up before everything goes up. Waking up in hospital days later, Tom discovers he has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded in his brain. And still worse, his friend Lucy has been gang-raped in a brutal attack that Tom had been so closed to walking in on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Waters
|title=Passing Strange (Generation Dead)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Karen DeSonne, the sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers in Oakvale, gets a turn at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Waters's ''Generation Dead'' series.
Karen has always worn a disguise. When she was alive, her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so often and eventually led to her suicide. Now she's dead, make up, hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as a living girl. She talks fluently and her movements are fluid, unlike most of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters and jerky movements mark them out for all to see.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keith Gray
|title=Losing It
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Doing it for the first time... you know, ''Losing'' It. It.
Sex. They talk about it a lot, teenagers. And eventually, they do it. But when is the right time? Where is the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing it already? Will they be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind on the peripheries of all that's important in life? And there's so much eagerness in teenagers - not just for sex, but for everything. They sure do hate to wait. But sometimes, it's better to wait. The trick for the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?!
Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy Hopkins
|title=Million Dollar Mates
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's nine months since Jess Hall's mother died and she's still finding it difficult to come to terms with what's happened. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran but all that's about to change. Jess' Dad has got the job of general manager at Number 1, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just up-market they're where the A-listers live and after some initial reluctance about leaving Gran Jess is excited. There's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim and both she and Charlie will be able to have their own rooms in the house that goes with the job. Everyone at school envies here and it looks as though she's living the dream.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon
|title=Infinity
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Rees Brennan
|title=The Demon's Covenant
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=A few weeks after the events of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demon's Lexicon]] and Mae is finally ungrounded. Determined to get on with 'normal' life and forget the magic she's lost since brothers Nick and Alan Ryves left, Mae is only interested in hitting the town and meeting up with Seb. Nice, normal Seb.
Then Mae learns her brother Jamie has been secretly meeting up with Gerald, the new leader of the Obsidian Circle. Afraid that Jamie is getting involved in dangerous things, Mae does the only thing she can and calls Alan.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Smiley
|title=Nobody's Horse
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Abby lives on her family's farm in California. They specialise in taking horses and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horses, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably go, but two are going to make an impact on her that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old and he takes Abby's heart. The second has the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined to buck her off. She's frightened of him and it's a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>
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