WHSmith Zoella Book Club: Review (Books 5-8)

I have loved taking part in the Zoella Book Club with WHSmith. I posted about it back in June here and the first part of my book club review (for books 1-4) can be found here. I've loved sharing opinions and thoughts on these books with others on WHSmith's Twitter. The book club nights have all been brilliant and I'm sad that it's all over, but it's been great!

Here are the last four books of the Zoella Book Club:

• The Potion Diaries
• Everything Everything
• The Sky Is Everywhere
• Billy and Me

So let's get on with the reviews and Twitter chat! Before continuing please be aware that there are some spoilers ahead.

WHSmith Zoella Book Club: Review (Books 1-4)

I have been loving the Zoella Book Club with WHSmith. I posted about it back in June here, and now we are at the halfway mark. I decided when I started this book club that I would review all of the books and give you my views on them all, as well as sharing my input to the book club nights on WHSmith's Twitter. The book club nights on Twitter were brilliant, although I was gutted to miss the third one, discussing We Were Liars, as I had to be at work late.

I read the first four books in the order of the book club:

• All The Bright Places
• Beautiful Broken Things
• We Were Liars
• Fangirl

(You can buy the complete eight-book bundle here)

So let's get started with the reviews and Twitter chat! Before continuing please be aware that there are some spoilers ahead.

Recipe Box: Tanya Burr's Rocky Road

I was so excited when Tanya Burr's baking book, Tanya Bakes, was finally released as I've been waiting for it for so long. I was even happier when I received my signed copy!

A video posted by Janay Brazier (@janaybrazier) on Jun 30, 2016 at 9:20am PDT

I've made rocky road before with my mum's recipe, which has always been one of my favourite treats. But when I saw this recipe in Tanya's book, I knew straight away that I had to try it.

It's not too different at all when looking at the ingredients. It's butter, chocolate, syrup, biscuits and marshmallows. But there is one main difference when it comes to the biscuits - this uses cookies!

I've always used digestives before, just like my mum, and while I absolutely love that rocky road, I'm not a huge fan of digestive biscuits. I find them dry and bland, plus I associate them with being ill when my mum used to give them to me when I'd been sick and wanted to try eating again as they were plain.

But back to the cookies. What a great idea! So this was the first recipe that I tried out from Tanya's new baking book and here's how to make it:

I'm Reading: The Zoella Book Club 2016

I was so excited when I heard that Zoella was starting a book club for the summer and I was even more excited when I saw the video she put up on her channel, showing the eight books in the 2016 book club. You can see the video she posted below where she tells you the eight titles in the club and a little bit of the back story, as well as a quite note on why she chose to share these books.

So, here are the eight books in the book club! I was happy to see Fangirl and Billy and Me, because I've been wanting to read these two for a while now and this is now the perfect opportunity for me to read them.

I've also heard amazing things about All The Bright Places and Everything Everything, so I was glad to purchase them and add them to my bookcase. I've actually just finished reading the first book in the club, which was All The Bright Places, and I thoroughly enjoyed it but I won't give anything away as the club has only just begun and I don't want to ruin it for anyone.

I'd never heard of Beautiful Broken Things, We Were Liars, The Potion Diaries or The Sky is Everywhere, but they also all sound like great stories from what Zoe mentioned in her video.

I'm so glad that I can spend the summer reading some brilliant books and sharing my views and thoughts with others on the same reading journey. I've spent the last eight months only reading books that were on my set list from university, some of which were not interesting to me, so it's nice to finally have the chance to read something I want to read rather than something I have to read.

Are you part of the Zoella Book Club? Keep in touch on Twitter, Instagram and find me on Good Reads.