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Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser

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Thank you to Netgalley and St.Martin's Press for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Izzy wakes up morning a few days after the girl's night at her neighbors house, to see the soon to be ex husband of Kristin pacing in their driveway. Feeling concerned Izzy makes her way over only to find out that Kristin and the twins are gone, and no one knows why. Clara is shocked when the police show up asking about Kristin the last time she saw her. Soon the women are overwhelmed with the realization that they are the last ones to see her and on top of it all they really didn't seem to know her. Soon Clara begins to suspect that all wasn't right in the household. Meanwhile Izzy is struggling with her feelings towards in her brother in law, her feelings of being an outsider in her own family. She doesn't realize that Paul is suddenly becoming more than the neighbor, which isn't necessarily a good thing because he is getting a divorce and his wife is mis

Risen by Cole Gibsen

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Thank you to Netgalley and Entangled Teen for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Charlie lives with her Aunt and everything is fine until one day when her dog Jax acts weird as they walk home, and when Charlie tells her Aunt about it all she starts to worry. Aunt Rachel says the monster are coming for her, and that Charlie should be fine as long as they think she is her niece. Before too long, they hear the sounds of a vehicle on their driveway and Charlie knows something is wrong. Soon their house is invaded by vampires and Aunt Rachel is taken. They leave Charlie with Sebastian. He is supposed to kill her, but he is more worried about finding some kind of proof about Aunt Rachel's dead son. He plans on taking Charlie to the Anima clan. But something about Charlie resonates within him and he starts remembering parts of his life before he was turned. Sebastian knows that he is signing his own death warrant by helping her, but he can't help himself. Aft

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

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Thank you to Berkley and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Fiona Sheridan has been wondering lately if Tim really did kill her sister 20 years ago, and she is determined to find out the truth. She learns that a mysterious woman named Margret Eden has bought the Idlewild School and intends to restore, she decides that she has to write that story as well. In the 1950s we see story unfolding in the eyes of the girls who were at Idlewild at the time. Roberta, Sonia, Katie and CeCe. We also learn the myth of Mary Hand, and why she scares the girls so much. We also learn that these girls aren't as bad as people think and many have been sent there to cover their own families secrets not their own. In the present Fiona gets Anthony Eden to give her a tour and talk about the restoration of Idlewild, but she knows that something more is going on at this school that scares everyone. When a body is found in the well, little does Fiona know that in trying t

Let Me Lie by Clare MacKintosh

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Thank you to Netgalley and Sphere for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Anna is still reeling from the grief, her father committed suicide and then seven months later her mother did as well. Anna met Mark, her husband at a grief counseling session. Now they are together and living in her parents old house. She has a baby and all is well except she just can't understand why her parents killed themselves. Then Anna recieves an odd postcard in the mail, it says Suicide? Think again! She knows something is going on and so she goes into the police station and talks to the desk sgt. Murray listens to what she asks, and decides to look into the case and find evidence of the murders Anna believes happened before he takes it to CID. Anna is consumed by finding the answers until the day she finds a brick thrown into the window of her daughter's room telling her no police leave it alone. She wonders what is really going on and if the people who killed her parents a

Lies That Bind by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

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Thanks to Netgalley and Entangled Teen for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. This is the second book, if you don't want spoilers please stop and read the first book. Anastasia is back. She is in London with her sister to help Marcus find his brother. Although unlike the search for sister it is easy to find Antonio. Anastasia finds that suspicious and wonders if he is working for Department D. Meanwhile, the life she left behind rears it's head when she finds out that her best friend Tyson has been murdered in Boston. Anastasia returns to go to his funeral and is shocked and horrified when her other best friend reveals he was murdered because of her. And that if she doesn't turn over her parents they are going to hunt down and kill everyone she cares about. Allan Cross helps Anastasia come up with a plan and she goes on a mission to find other Dresden kids and give them an opportunity to take down Department D. Will she succeed or will she find that