Five teens, who couldn’t be more different from one another, wind up together in detention: Nate, the drug dealer who’s on probation; Bronwyn, the future valedictorian; Cooper, Bayview High’s star baseball pitcher; Addie, the popular girl with the popular boyfriend; and Simon, the creator of Bayview’s notorious gossip app, where he spills the secrets of all his classmates, sometimes . . .
Tag: suspense
Recursion | book review
In 2018, a New York cop named Barry fails to stop the suicide of a woman claiming to have FMS (False Memory Syndrome). The disease causes people to experience memories of a life they never lived, even though it feels more real than their current life. No one knows how it’s contracted or spread, but when Barry experiences his first . . .
You | book review
When a beautiful woman wanders into the bookstore where Joe works, he is immediately obsessed with her. He must know her name. He Googles the name on her credit card, and he's in luck: only 1 Guinevere Beck shows up in NYC. Even better, Beck (as her friends call her) has a public Facebook page and a ridiculously active Twitter . . .
Final Girls | book review
Everyone knows about Pine Cottage and the horrors that occurred there over ten years ago. But Quincy Carpenter is the only person alive who was actually there. She is the sole survivor of the Pine Cottage Murders---a final girl, as the media calls her, along with Lisa and Sam, two other sole survivors of their own tragedies. Quincy has tried to . . .
The Wife Between Us | book review
Vanessa is obsessed with her replacement---the beautiful, blonde bombshell her ex-husband is set to marry just months after their own divorce. Vanessa follows her replacement. She keeps tabs on her, all the while in a downward spiral in her own life. She's lost all her friends, all her family except her aunt, all her money---but she hasn't lost . . .
I Am Princess X | book review
May and Libby were best friends from the start. They didn't need anyone else---they had each other. And one fateful day, May and Libby created Princess X using rainbow chalk. From there, they created an entire comic series for themselves: Libby drawing the illustrations, May writing the stories. But that was before the accident. Now, Libby is . . .
There’s Someone Inside Your House | book review
Makani Young was forced to leave her life behind in Hawaii after a terrible accident. She now lives with her grandmother in Osborne, Nebraska---basically, a giant corn field, the most boring place on the planet. That is, until Makani's classmates start turning up dead. And not just dead---horribly, disgustingly mutilated. Makani and ...
A Line of Blood | book review
On a seemingly normal evening, Alex and his son Max chase their cat into the neighbor's back yard, then through his open back door. What they find changes everything: their neighbor, dead, in the bathtub. What first looks like suicide begins to seem like murder as new information is ...
TV Tuesdays | Dark
I'm here with (you guessed it!) another binge-worthy Netflix series recommendation. What more could you ask for? You're welcome. The show I want you all to go out and watch rightnow is Dark. This series isn't brand new. It debuted on Netflix back in December and was immediately hailed as the "adult" Stranger Things. Well, I'm certifiably…
Truly Devious | book review
Albert Ellingham ran a free school for the gifted, a magical place for high school juniors and seniors who just weren't getting the attention they needed in the public school system. But not just anybody could get in---you had to appeal and be selected. Flash forward to present-day, when Stevie Bell finds herself accepted into Ellingham . . .