Thursday, August 31, 2017

Alone

"When her mom inherits an old, crumbling mansion, Seda’s almost excited to spend the summer there. The grounds are beautiful and it’s fun to explore the sprawling house with its creepy rooms and secret passages. Except now her mom wants to renovate, rather than sell the estate—which means they're not going back to the city…or Seda's friends and school. 
As the days grow shorter, Seda is filled with dread. They’re about to be cut off from the outside world, and she’s not sure she can handle the solitude or the darkness it brings out in her.
Then a group of teens get stranded near the mansion during a blizzard. Seda has no choice but to offer them shelter, even though she knows danger lurks in the dilapidated mansion—and in herself. And as the snow continues to fall, what Seda fears most is about to become her reality…: (netgalley)


Scary, heart pounding, bloody, a crazy train that holds on until the very end... 
We follow Seda in this story since the story is told from her point of view. This creepy old house which she has deemed the "BUG HOUSE" out in the middle of nowhere, her aunt and uncle use to own it and run a murder mystery out of it. Seda just wants to go home to Boston, go back to a normal life, but that dream gets further and further away. 
She has 4 younger brother and sisters, who are each a set of twins. Seda was supposedly a twin too, but she absorbed her twin in the room, his name was suppose to be Sawyer. Except Seda can feel sawyer inside her, hear his voice. When she was younger her mother said it was just an imaginary friend, but as Seda grew older she knew Sawyer was real, and was the voice inside her. 
A huge snowstorm has just hit, and a group of teens have become stranded on their property. Seda knows she can't let them in the house, because then bad things will happen, so they spend the night out in the cold shed that is far enough away from the house. Except the next day when Seda goes out to get firewood, the young boy she likes is there and sure as shit, her mother comes out and sees the young man, now the group of kids are in the house and Seda is trying hard to stop anything from happening. 
Seda's mother decides they need to do something fun, since they missed Halloween, and it's Seda's birthday- so they are going to do a scavenger hunt- except it's going to be gory, and scary as hell... 
They are broken up into teams, and dressed in different costumes, everything begins all fun and games until a dark turns begins. The costumes each person picked, well it seems the game just turned real,and how ever they were dressed is how they die. 

In the BUG HOUSE, each room has a name and a plaque, of someone who stayed there and died, in the most gruesome way. Seda never thought anything of it until tonight when each person dies in the room, the same way the plaque describes... 
Suddenly everyone is dead, except Seda and Heath, the young boy she liked. Her mom, and brothers and sisters are all missing. Seda knows she can't leave without at least knowing if they are dead. So her and Heath begin looking, except suddenly Heath is hurt, and their is someone in the house.... Could Sawyer be real? While looking for bandages for Heath, Seda comes across a note in her mothers handwriting to her aunt. It says thank you for taking care of Sawyer, when he is behaving you can take him out of his restraints, I'm so sorry for doing this but he cannot be allowed to hurt anyone else.... 
So Sawyer is real?! And now he is loose in the house, and coming for Seda, because she was allowed to live and have a great life... 
This book has you on the edge of your seat, and the ending is a total twist, one you never see coming.. 



Wicked Fallout

Pretty wicked book #2

"Convicted of six murders when she was just fifteen, the notorious Ryann Wilkanson hasn’t been able to act on her darkest, deadliest urges for twelve years. She’s exhausted her appeals and has little hope of ever getting out of prison and back to hunting.

Until a media-hungry legal team mounts a campaign to do the impossible—get her immediately released with a commuted sentence.  

Forensic psychiatrist Nancy Clafin has mere weeks to evaluate Ryann’s current mental state against her grisly past to determine if she’s changed. But under the shadow of her own questionable history, it’s not easy to separate her personal life from her professional duty.

At least that’s what Ryann is counting on.

Behind the cold steel doors of a Colorado maximum-security prison, will Nancy find a cold-blooded killer or a newly redeemed woman determined to right her past wrongs?" (netgalley)


I didn't get to read the first series in this book, but you can read this novel as a stand alone. 

We follow the now incarnated Ryann, who when she was just 15 years old killed 6 people in cold blood. We find out her father was a cop, one of the police officers searching for this crazed serial killer.

Ryann's lawyers are trying to get her case over turned since she was a minor when this all went down, and her first legal team botched everything up. 
She has to meet with a doctor who is doing an evaluation on her to see if she has changed her ways since she was younger.  Except Ryann is a master at this game, she can trick anyone in believing she has changed her ways and she is not that person anymore... 


Fast Forward: Ryann gets released and once again at her old ways- she is out for blood- and the first person she comes to see is her doctor's daughter at her own house. 

This story had it all, murder, mystery, thrill, and heart pounding page after page. You will be dying for the next series in this book because you can't believe everything that goes down and the ending ahh!!!


Girl without a Face

This story begins with a 17 year old girl named Destiny, who wakes from a car accident with amnesia, she had been driving late at night on a wet road, when all of a sudden she lost control of her car...
She wakes in the hospital with no memory of anything before now- a woman is sitting on the end of her bed, saying she's Mom, but Dez cant remember her, a few days in the hospital, and she is released. She is sent home with mom, but when she gets there nothing feels right, like a stranger in her own home.
Her mother is extremely over protective, she's homeschooled, and not allowed to leave the house or speak to any of the neighbors.
Dez wants her memories back, so while her mother is at work she breaks the rules and goes out. While walking down the road she comes across an alligator (they live extremely close to the everglades in Florida.) Scared frozen, she has to think quickly and makes a run for home, even though her body is still recovering from the car accident. A young man pulls up and says hi, but Dez is too scared and keeps running home.
A few days later she is determined not to stay locked away forever, and decides to go out again, except this time she's more careful, and once again the young man she saw the other day pulls over and says hi to her, since its late at night she cant really see him, and he offers her a ride home since she is now far away.
Over the next few weeks, Dez keeps breaking the rules and sneaking out late at night to meet up with Gabriel, the next door neighbor, she is determined to get her memories back, Gabriel had taken her picture and posted it online, people begin to comment, saying she looks familiar and horrible things such as good riddance.
Her mother is not only over protective but very abusive, Dez was having trouble doing the math homework, and when her mother screamed at her that she knows this and why is she not doing it correctly, dez fought back and her mother smacked her across her face, and ear which had damage from the accident.
Now fearful of her mother she is trying everything to keep her happy, until one night she is washing dishes and drops a glass that breaks, she knows her mother is going to hit her again, but this time she is ready and fights back. She manages to get away from her just in time to see her mother grab a meat tenderizer, and come after her. Dez locks her self away in her room, determined to stay away from her. While the mother is on the other side of the door now crying and begging for her forgiveness.

Since it is now a weekend, her mother is home and Dez is stuck inside all weekend doing things with her, like watching VHS, and knitting.

Things continue this way for a little while, until suddenly Dez remembers the passcode to the phone she has been hiding from her mother, she unlocks it and is amazed by the pictures of this girl, straight her, heavy makeup, it cant be her right? But then she thinks back to all the dreams she has been having since she's awoken, and things start to come back to her.

"Dez" has gotten her memories back, and things are way off in this picture, her mother is not who she says she is, Dez is not who she is told she is, and the craziness and heart pounding adventure begins.
I could not put this book down!


Sunday, August 20, 2017

The Adjustment

Program #5

The Program has been shut down, the handlers are gone, no more pills to stop memories.. Sounds perfect right? But what happens to those that went to the program? Or those who only went partially through it...

We follow Tatum, and her boyfriend Weston as they go on this journey together.
Weston was taken through the program, and completed before they shut down. Now he just returned to their school- since everything run under the program even the school was shut down. Now everyone is back in public school together, except Weston doesn't remember the love of his life Tatum.
Tatum decides she is not going to give up on him and will do everything in her power to get him to remember her and their love, a new therapy is being rumored to work,, The Adjustment.

Tatum and Weston decide to try the Adjustment, when they go to meet the doctor, a Dr. Mckee and his assistant Marie, they feel the pros outweigh the cons, and begin the adjustment.

Tatum will donate her memories through a series of truth serum, and electrodes attached to her, then once the memory is captured it is configured and transferred to Weston. The two of them go through 3 our of 4 Adjustments before Weston starts telling Tatum things don't feel right, his head and heart are at war, emotions dont make sense with the memory...

Could Tatum be lying about the memories of them and the emotions that went with them, or was something else going on entirely?

Random people begin showing up throughout Weston and Tatum's life, people they never spoke to before, and ever since the first Adjustment Tatum is experiencing headaches and nose bleeds, memory crash backs... How can this be for someone who never went through the Program?

A sinister plot twist takes place that leaves you in awe.. There is one more book in the series and sadly won't be released until 2018!!! There are so many twist and turns throughout this series, each page leaves you wanting more!


Friday, August 18, 2017

The Epidemic

The Program #4

In a world before the Program, Quinn helps people close out their grief. She can mimic anyones actions, speech, smell, everything about that person. Someone close to you died young? Then call the grief department and they will send in a closer to help you say goodbye and get past that part of the grief process so you can begin to heal and move on with your life...

In this last book we were left with Quinn hunting down Arthur to find her identity, In this book Quinn continues her search and finds Arthur's daughter Virginia is in connection with this. Every person Virginia comes into contact with dies, why? Is she the reason the program began or did it begin even before that?

Quinn learns why she can't remember her mom, or anything about her life before she became Quinn. She was sent in to help Tom (her dad) close out Quinns life, but Tom and Marie had different plans, and instead of using this child to help close that gap they turned her into Quinn. Now she is on the run from the grief department because she violated her contract, and they are taking all closers and transitioning them into Handlers.

We follow Quinn and Deacon on their journey to find Virginia, and Arthur the reason all this is happening. Along the journey we find more about what happened to Quinn, how Arthur has used memory manipulation on her, and she is his patient zero. Now he thinks that memory manipulation worked great and begins experimenting on his daughter Virginia. Except his daughter is stronger than he thought and she's remembering things he made her forget. She feels empty, a shell without a soul. One night Quinn is acting as her "friend" they go to a high school party where Virginia goes off and talks to a friend, Micah. While Quinn is standing  by watching everyone she notices a young boy Roderick standing alone in the corner acting off. He's the host of the party yet he isn't enjoying one second of it, just the previous week his girlfriend was sent into the mental institution and they dont think she will be let out. Quinn watches in horror and unable to act quick enough as Roderick walks to the balcony and jumps. Quinn and Virginia race out of there, before Virginia leaves she tells Quinn to remind  her of tonight if she forgets.

Virginia forgets Quinn, forgets Roderick and soon Micah as well, sadly it seems every one that is friends with Virginia is dying. Why? Is it a virus or is she saying something to them. Meanwhile Arthur is setting his plans in motion to begin the Program, every one under 18 is mandated to attend and be cleansed. Arthur has no idea how badly he is messing his daughter up, he doesn't want to see that every time he is taking a little more of her away.

One night they are hiding out, waiting for Virginia after a meltdown at a Volleyball game, she screamed that she remembered everything and was taken away by her father. Quinn knows she can't leave Virginia behind- so they see her and take her away to talk. Arthur knows who took his daughter, and tells Marie (their advisor) if they dont return his daughter he will issue an Amber Alert.

Deacon has left the motel where they are hiding to get the truth from Marie, but it has been hours, and now Marie called and never mentioned Deacon being there, just that she needs her best closers to come over ASAP.
Quinn, Aaron, Reed, Shep and Tabitha are suppose to be there..Except only Quinn, Read, Aaron and Shep are there. Shep is quickly dismissed by a envelope full of money, we find out that he was comprimsed and is a handler. Tabitha "tabby" is missing, deacon is missing. Arthur? We dont know yet but think so. Quinn and Aaron listen to Marie when she tells them to hide, Arthur is coming and so is the Program. They leave and watch in horror as Reed has been different ever since dropping off Virginia.

Reed can't take what Virginia told him, how she knows what her father has been doing to her, how he's taking away her memories and making her into a new person. He will be doing this to everyone. Reed only has one person he ever cared for and it was his late Girlfriend Katy. (she passed sometime before the book.) He couldn't take not remembering her ever, so before Arthur came with the Program Reed takes his life in the bathroom of the motel while Quinn slams and screams at him from the other side of the door.
Quinn and Aaron are the only ones left, and they are going to do one dumbass plan, go straight to Arthur.

What will happen? Will they escape with Deacon or will the Program take them?

**Remember Tabby and Shep from the first book? This is where it all began for them..."



Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The Remedy

The Program # 3
"The Only Cure for a Broken Heart is the... Remedy."

"In a world before The Program…

Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill—she can “become” anyone.

Recommended by grief counselors, Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen and twenty. She’s not an exact copy, of course, but she wears their clothes and changes her hair, studies them through pictures and videos, and soon, Quinn can act like them, smell like them, and be them for all intents and purposes. But to do her job successfully, she can’t get attached.

Now seventeen, Quinn is deft at recreating herself, sometimes confusing her own past with those of the people she’s portrayed. When she’s given her longest assignment, playing the role of Catalina Barnes, Quinn begins to bond with the deceased girl’s boyfriend. But that’s only the beginning of the complications, especially when Quinn finds out the truth about Catalina’s death. And the epidemic it could start."

Your sucked into this book the moment you begin reading, imagine a world where we could be replaced. A world where someone like Quinn comes in and mimic's everything about us, just so our loved ones can say their good byes or how sorry they are for our death. How would you know who you or anymore? Or even what's real? 

We follow Quinn on this journey through every twist and turn, the last assignment she nearly loses herself, but she is brought back, just to question every thing again! The shocking end will have you running to the store for the next book in the series! 


Tuesday, August 15, 2017

The Treatment

The Program #2:
"The only cure for the Program is... THE TREATMENT..."

Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the Program, but they are not out of the woods yet! They are in more danger now than they were before. They are on the run and their has been an Amber alert sent out for them, news coverage is going crazy for their "Bonnie and Clyde" runaway story. They are trying to make it everyday just the two of them until one day they are in a rest stop and a white van blocks them in, panicking they are thinking its the program and the handlers have come to take them back, but instead they find friends of Realm, and are told to go with them. We find out these friends are the rebels against the program, but can you really trust these people? Or are there a few who are embedded handlers? We follow James and Sloane though out their journey with the rebels always staying on step ahead of the program, but the shocking end to this sequel will have you shocked! Who turns on who? And is there a way to stop the program from erasing everything?

Shocking and suspenseful! You will be on the edge of your seat with fear and gaping when the truth comes out!


Monday, August 14, 2017

The Program

Teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.

Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone, especially her parents or at school... If they think she's depressed for any reason shell be sent to the Program and be wiped clean. 
They call them the "returners" they dont remember anyone or anything from their past, they are new people, they dont even dress like themselves anymore... 

What is really going on in there? Sloane and her boyfriend James can't help but wonder as they have heard their friend Lacey who was taken to the Program 6 weeks ago is now back-- does she remember them? does she remember her boyfriend Miller? 

The 3 of them, Sloane, James, and Miller decide to go to the school where "the returners" have to attend, seeing as too much stimulus on their brains could cause total malfunction. They want to see if Lacey remembers them, sadly she does not... For Miller it becomes to much to take and ends his life....

Now Sloane and James have to not only carry on living like nothing is wrong, but have to hide the grief setting in from losing their friend. 
James can't take it and cant hide it anymore, the school notices, and his dad notices... They call the program and he's sent away. 
Now Sloane is left all alone-- she tries to carry on like nothing is wrong while inside she is dying.. She goes to the wellness center, which is a place for returners and non returners to "hang-out" in a safe place for them and everyone else. Except Sloane is there hoping to see James. One day he walks in and looks at her like she is a stranger.. To him she is nobody, they never had a past, and never loved her.
Sloane is unable to accept that and begins to fall apart, that night she screams at her parents and takes off- she is going to end her life but she can't go through with it... 

Fast forward: her mother calls the Program on her, sloane is sent to the Program, and she is wiped clean. The things that go on are unthinkable- you must voluntarily take the meds they give you or your forcefully injected- you talk about things you dont want to talk about- then after your given another med and stumble down the hallway to your bedroom. Where the handler that gives you the creeps is standing there with that creepy smile. Blackout... Wake up in your bed straped down, being told your a danger to yourself...Blackout... Wake up to the nurse telling you its time to eat. What happened to the creepy handler ? Did he rape you? 

I WONT GIVE AWAY TOO MUCH! But this is a must read for any suspense, sic-fi, young adult fan! A series and I'm currently reading the second book! Just as good!! 



Thursday, August 3, 2017

Crowns of Croswald

"In Croswald, the only thing more powerful than dark magic is one secret...
For sixteen years Ivy Lovely has been hidden behind an enchanted boundary that separates the mundane from the magical. When Ivy crosses the border, her powers awaken. Curiosity leads her crashing through a series of adventures at the Halls of Ivy, a school where students learn to master their magical blood and the power of Croswald's mysterious gems. When Ivy s magic and her life is threatened by the Dark Queen, she scrambles to unearth her history and save Croswald before the truth is swept away forever." (Netgalley) 

From the moment you begin to the very end you will feel transported into another magical world. The author gives such detail that you picture your right there in the Halls of Ivy, seeing the Dark Queen, and even fighting along side Ivy Lovely. 

Throughout the book from the moment Ivy is taken to the Halls of Ivy strange things keep happening, why all of a sudden are these things happening? And how is it possible that Ivy can do things no first year student has ever been able to do. 

Follow Ivy along her path of becoming a maid, to learning she has magical powers, and maybe more... 
The twist and turns in this book will have you on the edge of your seat! The cliff hanger ending will leave you dying for more! This is a series and only book 1 is currently available but don't worry loves as soon as book 2 is out i will be getting my hands on it!! 

A favorite for anyone, of any age! If you love fantasy, sic-fi, romance, magic and all things mysterious then this will be your new summer read! 


Best Friends Forever

‘ Best Friends Forever  is a page turner… You may think you know how this story is going to end. But trust me, you don't.’ Amy Engel, a...