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The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring

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Thank you to Imprint and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Normally I would tell you about the book and what is going on, but as much as I loved the cover and the synopsis this didn't go for me like I wanted it too. The atmosphere was great, the setting was amazing, the background good. But even though the chapters told me who was telling the story at that point. The back and forth between present and past and different characters completely threw me off. By the time a twist was revealed I wasn't that invested in this story. For me this had a ton of potential but failed to follow through. I think a lot of readers will love this, but I didn't find this such a gothic mystery more like a futuristic sort of mystery that really didn't deliver all that well. I really couldn't follow the story and to be honest it held me in some chapters and I could barely remember what I read in others. I really hate to sound like I am tearing the book

T-Minus by Shannon Greenland

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Thank you to Entangled Teen for a providing a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. Sophie wakes up to her Dad calling her inside the house. She knows that today is going to be a bad day. Little does she know just how bad it will be. Her brother is gone, and her mother is about to be taken somewhere else and so is her dad. They all have be separated because a threat has been made against her mother. The first female POTUS. When her dad says goodbye he tells her to trust no one, that the threat is coming from inside their circle. Sophie wonders if she should trust her long time bodyguard, but when she gets a weird text from her brother, and then a phone call from his girlfriend saying that she should come alone and trust no one. Sophie knows that there is more to what is going on then what she realizes. Thankfully she her friends from Teen CIA program to rely on. She is going to need them and her skills to figure this out. This really wasn't on my radar when Entangl