Review: Every Step She Takes - Kelley Armstrong - June 2020 For the past ten years, Genevieve has been living in France as she was part of a celebrity scandal in the States and though she was the innocent party, she was blamed for everything and her reputation was shredded - she needed to escape from the spotlight and keep a low profile. Here in France, she could be whoever she wanted and no-one was judging her for her past. Now ten years later she has arrived home and sat on her kitchen table as a parcel addressed to Lucy Callahan. A name that she has not used or spoken of since she left the states ten years ago. It turns out the parcel is from celebrity Isabella Morales and she wants to meet Lucy back in the States and talk about the scandal and apologize and hear Lucy's side finally. Lucy is reluctant but she goes as Isabella is persistent. She turns up and Lucy is transported back to the Summer of 2005 when she became a music tutor for Isabella Morales and Action star Colt Gord...

Review: Aftermath - Kelley Armstrong - May 2018 A theme of books that I have always been fascinated with is school shootings, I know that makes me sound creepy, but I'm not honest. I guess living in New Zealand, we only hear about the shootings. Kelley Armstrong's book was a different take on your usual school shooting novel which takes place leading up to the shootings. This one features the siblings of victims and shooters three years later. Skye and Jesse were the best of friends until one day changed their lives forever. There has been a school shooting at the high school, and both their siblings died - one was the shooter and the other a victim. Skye moves away for the next three years until her mum suffers a mental breakdown which lands her hospitalized and Skye must move back to live with her aunt in the hometown where the school shooting happened. Skye starts school and is instantly targeted as the girl whose brother shot up the school. T...

  Review: City of the Lost - Book #1 Casey Duncan Series - Kelley Armstrong - January 2016 What would you do if someone ruined your life and everything you have worked for because they were stupid and a coward ? For Casey Duncan, she ended up killing him and then for the next decade she lived with the guilt of her crime. The novel fast forwards to about 10-12 years in the future and Casey is now a Detective and working for the local police and her best friend Diana is being abused by her ex-husband. Casey will do anything for her friends and is about to prove exactly the lengths she will go for as her friend Diana's last beating leaves her near-death. Diana has heard about a place where people go to disappear and all traces of them are gone from existence. There is a whole town dedicated to those who want to stay off the grid. Some call it paradise, others the City of the Lost. Diana and Casey get in and it turns out they are in need of a Detective as some stran...

  Review: Deceptions - Book #3 Cainsville Series - Kelley Armstrong - August 2015 One of my favourite supernatural/paranormal authors is Kelley Armstrong and one of her series particular that I had been enjoying was the Cainsville series where we met Olivia Taylor-Jones who discovered that she was adopted and that her "real" parents were in fact sitting on death row and were serial killers. As Olivia got to know her past, she noticed that strange things were occuring and that something eerie was happening. We later discovered that Olivia's blood line was filled with paranormal qualities. In Book #3 Deceptions, Olivia is starting to have a life with Ricky and create a friendship with Gabriel and try and get her parents out of jail but what happens when her stalker ex-fiance James Morgan turns up dead and Gabriel is blamed for it - something that her "real" mum Pamela predicted. Things just got a whole lot more complicated for Olivia and it's ...

    Review: The Rising - Book #3 Darkness Rising Series - Kelley Armstrong - April 2013 Maya and her friends are still running for their lives after they discovered that everything they knew and had thought was true was a lie. Their whole upbringing a lie and that they were all part of an experiment to try and resurrect six extinct supernatural creatures. Now that most of their powers have come at full play, they are being hunted down to be experimented on. With most of their group being captured in Book #2 it just leaves Maya, Daniel and Corey to fend for themselves, so they run off to Vancouver to find some answers . However what they find though is something more interesting - they discover Maya's twin brother Ashton . Can Ashton help them or is he too running for his life ? Can Maya and her friends find help before it's too late or is there no hope for them of ever living a normal life again especially when circumstances change and Maya finds herself captured ...

  Review: The Calling - Book #2 Darkness Rising Series - April 2012 One of my favourite paranormal/Supernatural authors is Kelley Armstrong as no matter what her books are about , she does not get boring or disappoint her readers. After the bushfire that ravaged through their community , it seems that Maya and her friends are really in danger and that due to their special abilities , they are being hunted. As more deaths occur and their chances at surviving and escaping those hunting them become slim, they must join forces in order to survive but what happens when they learn that someone in their group of friends, someone they thought they could trust turns out to be an enemy and betraying them. Will Maya be able to put her survival skills to the test and help save her friends as it is determined she is the strongest of them all ? Also in The Calling, Maya's true family lines are revealed but who will she choose when it comes down to her trust issues - the father s...