Review: Tastes Like Candy: 2 - Sugarless by Ivy Tholen - April 2024 I had been eager to read this book as I loved the first one and it gave me 90s/ early 2000s slasher horror vibes and reminded me of the teen movies I watched. The first one was great, but unfortunately Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless didn't quite have the same feel. It's like when you watch the first movie and it's Oh so Awesome and then you see a sequel being released and you are so excited as the first one was like the greatest ever and then when you watch the second one, you were like that was a waste of time or it could have been better. That is how I felt about Book #2. This book starts in Part #1 with Dusty who seems like she wants revenge on her so-called friends and starts looking on the internet and comes across the real story of what happened five years ago and discovers the town covered it up.  With the help of her "internet friend" Dusty starts to plan revenge and where better to than t...

Review: I Heard You Scream - Emerald O'Brien - April 2022 This book is the perfect read for all those fans of the 90s/2000s slasher films like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. As I read this, I was transported back to the slasher era of my teens, reading a book about a final girl - 5 years on her friends all being massacred, and she left as the final girl. It has been five years since Chelsea and her friends were attacked and only Chelsea survived and it's only because she was angry and stormed out and arrived after the attack happened but of course, nobody knows that truth - they all think she is a hero. Chelsea is also hiding another truth which she believes is what led to this tragedy. Two months before, she and her friends covered up a crime. Then two months later they were dead and the prime suspect Steve died by police fire. Now with the anniversary, it looks like someone knows about the cover-up and is blackmailing Chelsea to do the right thing. She is ready t...