#Young Adult Thriller

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Check out my Book Review: You're Not Supposed To Die Tonight

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The Importance of Using Your Brain in "Don’t Look Behind You"

Remember the use your head and check out my review of "Don't Look Behind You."

Content Warning: Don’t Look Behind You contains mentions of violence and murder, tense situations, manipulative behavior, references to alcoholism, and selfish teenagers. Reader discretion is advised. Spoilers for Don’t Look Behind You ahead! My earliest memory of Lois Duncan is from middle school. One of my classes offered A Gift of Magic as an option for that year’s summer reading assignment.…

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Utterly thrilled with this review of #SomethingTerribleHappenedLastNight by @reads_eats_explores on IG who 'inhaled it' Yay!!

It's getting amazing reviews, I'm so delighted readers are loving it!

🔪Something Terrible Happened Last Night by Sam Blake🔪

Sam Blake is an auto-buy author for me; her murder mystery and crime thrillers are some of the best on the market.

It's Katie’s 17th birthday, and with her parents away, she has a ‘free gaff’, and her house becomes party central. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, obviously, these teenagers have plenty of secrets, and there's plenty of double crossing going on, but no one would envisage the party becoming a crime scene.

After a huge fight breaks out, most of the kids scaper hastily, but Frankie returns to help with the clearing up along with new friend Jess and her cousin Sorcha. They soon find the body...

The local Gardai soon leap to the obvious conclusion when they learn that Rob Doyle, a small-time drug dealer with a stabbing conviction on his youthful record, was at the party. But horrified by the chance of a wrongful conviction and the real killer let go free, wannabe future lawyer Jess suggests that these best pals get on the amateur sleuthing and crack the case.

This being the digital age of the 2020s, much of this involves trawling the school’s anonymous “confessions” website, Rave-fess, and piecing together video and pictorial footage from the party where getting a good selfie or reel was a top priority, plus they're racing against time to capture those time-sensitive stories shared in real time via Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and whatever else the youth are using these days.

This foray into Young Adult fiction doesn't disappoint. Think an Irish ‘Nancy Drew’ style read packed with some very relatable teens, loads of twisty page-turning suspense, and betrayal galore, all played out under the omnipresent and unforgiving glare of social media. This is a book easy to devour in one sitting, and I certainly want to read more books featuring these budding supersleuths! 4⭐

Order your copy here - it's in audio, kindle and there are links here to bookshops worldwide

https://www.samblakebooks.com/books/something-terrible-happened-last-night/

You'll also find more info about the characters and shots of Katie's house that we've created in the SIMS4 at my website :)

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Have you read any of Natasha Preston's books?

To be read Tuesday!! This book is definitely on my tbr list as I read the first book called The Cellar, and I really enjoyed it.

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ARC REVIEW: SUCH LOVELY SKIN BY TATIANA SCHLOTE-BONNE

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With the spooky season well underway, this book has been on my radar for a while. As a lover of horror movies and games alike, I was excited to see a book that combined my favorite aspects of both. 

Like some of my other reads recently, Such Lovely Skin is ultimately rooted in grief. Viv lets the burden of guilt over a tragic accident weigh on her, so much so that she ends up using a video game to get it off her chest. I particularly enjoyed the third act when Viv realizes just how to get release herself of those demons, both literally and figuratively, even if it is a bit of a frightening journey to get there. 

I enjoyed how the book played on the common fear of an evil twin. While my little sister and I grew up pretending to be twins on occasion, there’s something to be said about the voice in the back of your head, questioning whether or not you could have an evil look alike out in the world. In this case, the doppelganger puts its hand in so many aspects of Viv’s life, it’s overwhelming. But, it also uses her past posts and statements against her, causing her similar pain to what she’s inflicted on others. It’s clear the demon is very rooted in her life and this isn’t the first time it’s done this.

Thank you to TBR and Beyond Tours and Page Street YA for the physical ARC and chance to read!

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Break My Heart 1,000 Times by Daniel Waters

Living in the aftermath of the Event means that seeing the dead is now a part of life, but Veronica wishes that the ghosts would just move on. Instead, the ghosts aren’t disappearing—they’re gaining power. When Veronica and her friend, Kirk, decide to investigate why, they stumble upon a more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined. One of Veronica’s high school teachers is crippled by the fact that his dead daughter has never returned as a ghost, and he’s haunted by the possibility that she’s waiting to reappear within a fresh body. Veronica seems like the perfect host. And even if he’s wrong, what’s the harm in creating one more ghost?

I enjoyed this book, but when it reach chapter 44 it started to be a bit confusing: police would look at Mr. Bittner - the protagonists' math teacher - more seriously as suspect for Mary's murder - one of his student, to whom Mr. Bittner was giving private extra lessons to improve her grades and whose ghost is appareing every day in front of Brittner's door - than what happens in the book, Kirk & Ronnie - the Pov main characters - didn't seem to know that Mr. Bittner had a deceased daughter at all, even if her death seemed to be a big accident and she was just few years older than them, but after being attacked (by Bittner, but they didn't see him) they got berserker against Mr. Bittner and Kirk had an argument with Mr. Pescatelli - another teacher, who is focused on studying “ghost” behavior -, mentioning Bittner's deceased daughter, even if he never show to know about her before that moment. Also at chapter 48 Ronnie & Kirk had an argument for a stupid reason and Ronnie being angry at Kirk lead to a lot of nonsense in the following chapters. At chapter 49 Kirk broke the camera, but few pages later Kirk seems to have a new one... I don't understand when or who gave him a new camera. This book leaves a lot of questions opened, like: what is The Event? Why it happened? If Madeline Bittner - Mr. Bittner mentally unstable and deceased wife - isn't the one who suggested to her husband to kill the girls to have their daughter back from death, who did it? Was a supernatural entity impersonating Madeline Bittner that persuade her husband to kill? Or was his own madness? Why some ghosts like Brian and Madeline seems to be more indipendent than the others? I don't know if there is a sequel planned or if this is a self-standing novel, but it seems to open a lot of unsolved questions to the reader.

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Update: I saw the movie. And it was 100% better.

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Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones #NetGalley #ArcReview #Mystery #Podcast

Two teens decide to create a podcast about a girl who disappeared in their town back in 1999. There are some people in the small town who wish they would just leave it alone.#MissingClarissa #RipleyJones #NetGalley #ArcReview #March2023Books #NewBooks

In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her—who all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa’s beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. But with no leads and no body, the…

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Ashali and the Blue Horseman by Jordan Elizabeth

Ashali and the Blue Horseman by Jordan Elizabeth

Elizabeth riffs on classic superhero tropes, creating a story that is more than special effects and set-pieces but also more action tale than exploration of moral ambiguity. …

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little Madaisuki, one out of a graveyard.

what happened before Binks Sake was a butchering.

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What better way to spend a gloomy, foggy day than curling up in my car and starting a thriller from one of my favourite authors?

Book: Holly Jackson, Five Survive

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Supernatural Horror Novel: The Exodus Killer

Religious Trauma + Autistic Fascination with Numbers and Death = A Book about a Serial Killer playing God.

Warning! Content Includes:

Mysterious dead mom who is totally dead

Depressed, ADHD-ish Main Character

Plague of Blood and Hail and Darkness...oh my!

Mom is still dead, right?

Angsty brotherly relationship

Add a tablespoon more blood

Pfft mom's not dead, she's right over there

*Gestures to nothing*

"I'm fine...what voices?"

Detectives!

Dead mom...probably...I think

Available on Amazon as Paperback or Ebook

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"You're Not Supposed To Die Tonight": the Odessey of the Black Final Girl

Experiencing horror as a Black person is a fascinating experience. There’s an unspoken list of rules that need to be followed if you expect to survive, and even then you need to always be vigilant. . .

Content Warning: You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight contains graphic violence and mutilation, descriptions of crime scenes, child neglect, cult activities and propaganda, and teenagers dealing with evil, shady adults. Reader discretion is advised. Spoilers for You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight ahead! Particularly the ending, so if you want to read the book I highly suggest you do that first…

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as you are

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AARARRHRHRHRHGGRGRG kurt cobain why would you do this?

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