Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Six Little Secrets

Six hidden pasts.
One deadly outcome.
Some secrets never stay hidden for long…
Six teenagers meet in Saturday detention: a brain, a beauty, a cheerleader, a rebel, a recluse and the new girl.
But someone is watching. Someone has made sure that they are all in the same room at the same time. Someone knows that each of them is hiding a terrible secret…
…and by the end of detention, everyone will know the truth.

Modern day Breakfast Club... Six students all in Saturday detention, and all have something to hide. You have the beauty queen, the nerd, the rebel, the kleptomaniac, the student who spends her Saturday's there to study, and the new girl. The teacher watching them has to step away for a moment, and while he's away a message comes over the intercom, "Were going to play a game, find the red slip with your name on it and complete the task... if you dont or tell anyone out of this room, you will face the consequences..." So they all think this is some joke until they find the first red slip with the nerd Teddy's name on it. His task his to find his favorite book, he only has 15 minutes. So they are like okay what is going on, they decide to play along... So teddy goes to find his favorite book and inside is ten $100 bills. He has to burn them... Time runs out and he doesn't do the task, suddenly he hears the alert on his phone, which BTW is locked away in the file cabinet. The alert he heard was set for either a withdrawal or deposit into his bank account. Did he lose everything just now by not burning that money? 
While he was inspecting the money to see if it was real he realized only nine of them were, the last one is red with another name on it... What will be the next task and how deadly do the games get?
I managed to finish this book in half a day, and found it fun to read. You didn't know what or who would be next and the task they had to do or else... The twist at the ending was fun when you finally find out who the voice was on the intercom, and also find out who was working with who. Finally when you finally find out everyone's secret you will be surprised to see the facade people put on... 

What are you hiding? And what could it cost you? 


Monday, October 16, 2017

Cherringham- Scared to Death

When classic horror movie star Basil Coates becomes the victim of a series of scary pranks, the local police put it down to a crazed fan. Just pranks, after all ...
But with Halloween only days away, the spectre of murder suddenly visits the ghostly Coates mansion on the hill outside Cherringham - and Jack and Sarah find themselves caught in a mystery worthy of Basil’s spookiest roles ...
Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.

This description sounded interesting but once i began to read i found it very difficult and boring to read. While it had an interesting plot, the writing itself was bare. Typical hollywood horror, took place in this actors house (Basil Coates),with things such as snakes, noose hanging, cryptic messages, etc.. all portrayed as just some prank at Basil's expense. Two detectives are called in to investigate, and the book seems to move pretty quickly from here on out, since another message along with a seemingly dangerous snake appears, saying death will arrive tonight. So when that night comes, so does another prank. This one with a wicker man set on fire. BTW all these pranks are from Basil's movie's back in the day when they were popular. Once the wicker man was put out and everyone was sure the house would be safe, they all went inside to find surprise surprise Basil dead on the floor. So the two detectives decide to look into crew members who made the props for his movies, and they find one still alive, who just happens to have a son who  guess what? Is also in the FX special effects business. After speaking with the both of them the two detectives have decided they know what really happened, and the one detective (woman) decides to go and confront him alone, and wait for her son (who's waiting for a ride from a friend) to go to the halloween party she was suppose to meet her fellow detective friend, to go there and pick him up and tell him to go to the Coates mansion. Once she is inside the mansion, everything is deathly quiet, and she is finding her way downstairs to face the killer. I'm making this sound so much more suspenseful than it actually was! I felt this part of the book should have been edge of your seat thriller,  but instead it was like watching a bad horror movie that instead of being scared you literally are laughing at the stupidly of it all! SO i do not recommend this book- but if someone has read it and you feel different tell me why? 



Turtles all the way down

Sixteen year old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but theres a hundred thousand dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy is eager to investigate. So together they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them Russell Picketts son Davis.
      Aza is trying. Trying  to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student,  and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the veer tightening spiral of her own thoughts.


I received this book from GMA the other day when John Green was there, i wasn't sure if i was going to enjoy this book since he has a young following. As i began to read though i found myself unable to stop reading.
While the back story intertwined with Aza's personal struggles, is finding the missing billionaire. Most of  the story is about Aza and the mental issues she is facing. I found this part to be the best, because it is something a lot of young adults, and adults are facing. Thoughts that are not your own, you can't control your mind, and your sucked into this ever tightening spiral of thoughts that take over and control your life. I know from personal experience someone who suffers from something similar, not to the extent Aza does in the book, but thoughts that never stop, a mind that cannot be controlled by our selves. Where as Aza not only feels that she is unable to control what is going on, but she feels as though she is not real, a fictional character being narrated by someone else. That her life does not matter, because everything that is going to happen to her has already been decided by someone else. The extremes she goes to will blow your mind and help you to better understand mental illness.
The title Turtles all the way down is a metaphor that i had to research because i wasn't sure until further into the book, but it pretty much means ""Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the "unmoved mover" paradox. The metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of the model that Earth is actually flat and is supported on the back of a World Turtle, which itself is propped up by a column of turtles.[1]Questioning what the final turtle might be standing on, the anecdote humorously concludes that it is "turtles all the way down". (taken from Wikipedia). 
I loved this metaphor because within itself it deals with the mental illness that Aza deals with, that she cannot find her self within her own body. She is just turtles all the way down. 





Monday, October 9, 2017

Her Last Secret

There are some secrets you can never tell.

The last thing to go through Dominique Thomas’s head was the image of her teenage daughter’s face and her heart lifted. Then the shot rang out.

They were the perfect family. Successful businessman Ben Thomas and his wife Dominique live an enviable life, along with their beautiful children; teenager Ruby and quirky younger daughter, Mouse. 

But on Christmas Day the police are called to their London home, only to discover a horrific scene; the entire family lying lifeless, victims of an unknown assailant. 

But when Ruby’s diary is discovered, revealing her rage at the world around her, police are forced to look closer to home for the key to this tragedy.

Each family member harboured their own dark truths – but has keeping their secrets pushed Ruby to the edge of sanity? Or are there darker forces at work?

This dark, gripping psychological thriller will have you holding your breath until the very last page. Fans of Behind Closed Doors, Sometimes I Lie, and The Girl on the Train will be captivated. 

Like the description says if your a fan of behind closed doors then you will love this book! It follows the same format where it jumps between time, the past and present but it flows very nicely and you are able to follow it. It begins christmas morning with shots being fired, the police show up at this house, they are preparing to break down the door and face whatever or whoever is inside...
Cut to past- Dominique and her family are weeks away from christmas and each member of the family is hiding something, the teenage daughter is going through typical teen struggles, boyfriend, friends, bullying. Dominique is trying to hold everything together, but she has a wicked past which includes blood on her hands, her husband is cheating, and her youngest daughter is just trying to make everyone happy again. What will tear this family apart? The mistress decides she has had enough of being the second woman, tired of spending holidays alone, she decides to confront his wife and tell her about his affair. Dominique now facing a dilemma, does she confront her cheating husband right before christmas and ruin it  for the kids, or does she keep quiet until after. But with the stress of this she begins to sleepwalk again, and it may have deadly consequences. Their teenage daughter Ruby is struggling in school, her boyfriend and her only have each other, she is being bullied, and it doesn't stop in school, no random numbers are texting her horrible things, nasty images of her are being passed around online, how much can a girl take before she snaps? Dominique's husband is cheating and stealing money from his company, but shit is about to hit the fan, the government has finally figured out he is stealing money and he owes a whole shit ton of money back, and if he doesn't pay- well they will be taking action against him. And the mistress well he just keeps her around to feel young, he doesn't really care about her. But does she know that ? And what happens when she finally realizes that? There are so many suspects in this christmas morning bloody scene, and what happened ? Is everyone dead? Who finally snapped and took everyone with them? 

A must read for any fan of murder, mystery, thriller, exciting twist and turns lay ahead! 


First Grave on the Right Series

This whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual.
Or a diagram of some kind.
A flow chart would have been nice.

Charley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper. Meaning, she sees dead people. Really. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (like murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely. But what does he want with Charley? And why can't she seem to resist him? And what does she have to lose by giving in?
With scorching-hot tension and high-octane humor, First Grave on the Right is your signpost to paranormal suspense of the highest order.


Right away this book captures your attention, i found myself unable to stop reading! I mean how cool that this bad ass chick is a grim reaper? So not only does she help solve murder cases, help the dead move on, but now she is having some sexy dream guy come to her at night and give her amazing sex, mind blowing orgasms ! But he may not be dead... so how is he appearing to her the grim reaper? This story of who he is will blow your mind! You will be dying to continue the series, there are 11 books in total, i received this one for free for my review. But i can promise you i will be completing the series. Honestly if your into ghost, murder, sex, comedy this book has it all and I'm sure the rest of the series will be just as mind blowing as this one was! PLUS how cute are those shoes?!!



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...