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Iris Carden Author Of Between Reality and Unreality

From Iris' 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Author Reader Retired minister Former journalist Mother Grandmother

Iris' 3 favorite reads in 2025

Iris Carden Why Iris loves this book

I read a lot of great books this year, which makes it hard to pick the best of the best.

I’m going with Abigail’s Curse because I love the way this book  tricks the reader into thinking it’s going to be one story, then becomes something else entirely.

As it starts out, Abigail’s an ordinary teenager, in an ordinary school, dealing with a problem that shouldn’t be ordinary: a predatory teacher is trying to take advantage of her. Realising she’s about to make a formal complaint, the teacher gets in first with made-up allegations against her.

As punishment, Abigail is expelled, and has to be sent to a boarding school, known as the last chance for troubled kids. 

When Abigail sets foot in Lament Academy, this moves from a sad story of the unfairness in the world, into a well-crafted, disturbing, gothic horror. 

The book’s aimed at teenagers, but as…

By June Calva ,

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1 author picked Abigail's Curse as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Lament Academy is a place for the forgotten, the troubled, the unwanted. Abby never wanted to be here, but she wasn't given a choice. The halls are cold, the whispers never stop, and something about this place feels wrong.Her roommate, Raven, listens to the floorboards like they might answer. The other students watch her like they know something she doesn't. And Ethan... Ethan looks at her like he's waiting for her to remember something she's long forgotten.But the longer Abby stays at Lament, the more the lines between dreams and reality blur. Shadows stretch where they shouldn't. Time slips through…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Fame & Other Disasters

Iris Carden Author Of Between Reality and Unreality

From Iris' 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Reader Retired minister Former journalist Mother Grandmother

Iris' 3 favorite reads in 2025

Iris Carden Why Iris loves this book

Emma and Molly are best friends who both successful television presenters in Sydney. 

Emma is balancing a husband and sheep farm at Bowral, and a weekday home, and weekday boyfriend, in Sydney. 

Molly’s life is no less complicated. She only has one partner, who she shares her Sydney home with, but she’s also founder of Tulip Treasures, an orphanage in India, which she still keeps close links with.

They’ve been best friends for their entire adult lives, through any challenge, but a number of extreme crises are about to test their friendship in unprecedented ways.

This book has complex relationships, an interesting story line, and believable characters.

By Maria P. Frino ,

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1 author picked Fame & Other Disasters as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Fame is a double-edged sword, and nowhere is this more precarious than in the cutthroat world of television hosting.

Molly Edwards and Emma Bears Jones are inseparable—two powerhouses of television, hosting rival shows on Shine Ch33 and BBS12. But years of friendship crumble in a single night, a scandal sparked by a reckless decision at an industry party that sends their lives spiralling out of control.

In a haze of drugs and poor judgment, both women end up in bed with Richard—Emma's lover. Molly wakes first, horrified to find herself naked between her best friend and Richard.

Desperate to forget…


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