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. 

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?!!

What we Kill

Four lifelong friends wake up in the woods with no memory of how they got there, and no memory of the night before. One has a triangle burn in his arm, another is covered in blood, another is missing his glass eye, and finally another has no pants on. The images of big black eyes and sheep crying keep playing in their heads, but what does that mean? Not to mention their was a serial killer in the town that was just caught, and now they are pulling body after body out of his house. Were they involved in that somehow? Why cant they remember anything they did? What happened??

So this book was an ARC without page proofs, but i found it to be amazing ! You will be dying to get your hands on this book when it is released! I found myself captured from the very first page!
Like how can you wake up and not remember anything? Good kids who dont do drugs or drink, should have no problem remembering where they were the night before, and what they were doing.

As you follow each of the four friends piece together bit by bit of the events they forgot, follow them along a rollercoaster of emotions, and twist and turns to find out this crazy story! You won't believe the twist, and you won't believe what happened to this group of friends! I was gasping out loud and in utter shock when the puzzle pieces finally all come together !

Also the ending is great! I really hope it doesn't change because i loved the question ending; What would you do?
It makes you think of yourself in that situation how would you handle it? Go check this book out ASAP !!

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Currently I'm reading What we Kill... Tell me what are you reading ? Any fav's you guys want me to review before spending money on something you may hate? I know I've done it before and honestly it sucks LOL let me know what your reading !

The Bar Code Tattoo

Individuality vs. Conformity

Identity vs. Access

Freedom vs. Control

The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.

But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run...for her life.

This book begins very quickly and captures you till the very end. 
I found that you are able to understand how this book goes, if you think about it how far off are we from the bar code tattoo that not only tracks everything you do, but tells you things about your DNA and medical records that you dont even know yet? 
This book shows how we evolved from SSN, Drivers License, Credit cards- to future 2020-2025 where the have e-cards, which stored all their money- paper money no longer existed. Cell phones became a thing of the past since everything became electronic. The bar code tattoo became something that anyone who turned 17 would get, at first it wasn't mandatory, but that soon changed. The government was over taken by a company called Global-1 who ran everything from the food you put on your table to your money and even your health. The bar code tattoo was just suppose to store your banking, and ID you except it stored much more than anyone realized. 

Follow Kayla along her journey to resist the bar code tattoo and the group she joins called the decoders, watch as people she trust turn their back on her, stab her in the back, and even traitors among them. This story will stay with you and you will be rushing to read the next 2 books in the series, I am currently waiting for the other 2 books from the library. But i will be posting again soon !

After the Ending

Book Series #1

"The Virus spread. Billions died. The Ending began. We may have survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed us.

When people started getting sick, "they" thought it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family...they're all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them--with the rest of the world--but I didn't. I thought witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the craziest thing I'd ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani O'Connor, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending.

The Virus changed everything. The world I knew is gone, and life is backwards. We've all had to start over. I've been stripped of my home, my dreams...all that is me. I'm someone else now--broken and changed. Other survivors' memories and emotions haunt me. They invade my mind until I can no longer separate them from my own. I won't let them consume me. I can't. My name is Zoe Cartwright, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending.

We've been inseparable for most of our lives, and now our friendship is all we have left. The aftermath of the Virus has stranded us on opposite sides of the United States. Trusting strangers, making sacrifices, killing--we'll do anything to reach one another. Fear and pain may be unavoidable, but we're strong...we're survivors. But to continue surviving in this unfamiliar world plagued by Crazies and strange new abilities, we have to adapt. We have to evolve.

And more than anything, we have to find each other." 

First off this book captures you and keeps you until the very end- i wasn't sure i was going to enjoy this book but i ended up loving it, and buying the rest of the series to read!

Follow Dani as she watches the world around her end due to a "flu" virus that wipes out nearly everyone. The ones who survive the virus are changed- they have new abilities, some can feel each persons emotions, others can talk to animals, others can see peoples memories. They will each have to use their new abilities to survive what is left of the world. 

The other's who survived the virus and cant handle their abilities are losing their minds- there the crazies. And they will attack anyone they see. 

But how did the virus begin? Where did it suddenly come from that it is killing millions of people? Did someone start it or was it created by the government for something bigger? 

This is a crazy ride that you won't be able to put down or forget!

House of Ivy and Sorrow

They say a witch lives in the old house under the bridge...

If you love witches, magic, romance, and fighting for your life then this is the book for you!

What the residents of Willow's end don't know is that there are two witches living in the crumbling old house draped in ivy. Josephine and her grandmother Dorothea. Jo has always had magic and has managed to keep her magician life and her normal life separate, but now the curse that killed her mother is coming for her and her friends...

Follow Jo and her witching family fight every tradition known to witches to protect those they care about. You'll be unable to stop reading because this book leaves you dying to find out what is going to happen! With so many twist and turns you don't know who to trust and who to hate.
And since all magic comes at a price, it makes you think for yourself what would you be willing to pay to protect those you call family?

This is suspenseful in every page, you will question every character because who you may login the beginning, well you may hate by the end and vice versa.
Nothing is what it seems in this book!

A midsummer night's scream

R.L. Steins remake on Shakespeare's a midnight summers dream in this funny, horrifying novel.
Follow Claire and her friends, Jake, Annalee, Delia and a few other boys as they remake a sixty year old movie that had a tragic ending causing the production to stop midway and never start again... until now!
The story begins in 1960 your watching Mayham Manor the original, a group of teens get stranded in the forest, decided they need to find a phone, they walk until they come upon a mansion, once inside though things start taking a very dark turn. First the girl Claire is sitting at the massive dining table when she notices the giant swords hanging above, suddenly one drops and takes her hand clean off! Within minutes she is dead, now the teens are freaking out, but they are starving and apparently can't think without food, so the next boy tony finds bread and is going to make toast.. just as he pushes the lever down on the toaster he is electrocuted and dies.. now everyone is scared shitless, they decided they will try to get out through an upstairs window, yeah the front door locked and won't open... suddenly the next teen decides to take the lead and begins rushing up the stairs,only to meet her untimely death, she falls through a hole and breaks her neck, killing her instantly...

Production is put to a stop after since the deaths weren't suppose to really happen, and now 3 kids are dead.
Fast toward 60 years,Clair's dad and Jakes dad are in the movie business in Los Angeles, they decide to remake Mayham Manor with more horror than ever, nothing will go wrong this time right?
I mean it was just all an accident, well with R.L. Stein, nothing is ever what it seems, and adding Shakespeare into the mix you are in for a twisted adventure!

A fun, scary read that will keep you reading all day !
I loved all the twist and turns, and how easy it was to add humor into this horror novel!

P.S. I will post pictures of the book later for you !