REVIEW: ‘A New Order’ by Jack Palmer

‘Jack Palmer had seen the movies: when aliens invade, humans will come together to save the world.’ Unfortunately for Jack, when a superior alien race decide to invade earth, it seems the films are wrong: cowed by their brutally dispassionate taskmasters, whose punishment for every infarction, however minor, is instant death, most humans rapidly learn […]

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REVIEW: ‘How to Survive a Horror Movie’ by Scarlett Dunmore

Think ‘Scream’ but for a YA audience and with added ghosts. Charley’s whole identity is “horror movie enthusiast”, so when someone starts murdering her classmates in brutal ways, she knows The Rules and feels well placed to survive the carnage. But when she starts seeing the ghosts of her former classmates, can they help her […]

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