Review: These Deadly Games - Diana Urban - February 2022 After reading her debut novel All Your Twisted Secrets, I was excited to read her new book These Deadly Games. For fans like myself who love YA thrillers, then this is the book for you as we meet Crystal and her five friends who are all preparing for a gaming tournament. The tournament started with a team of six, but the rules changed and now only five of them can enter. The group decided that the first five to reach a 20K score can represent their team which means one will miss out. During the book, it really will become each man or woman for themselves and some are even willing to kill for it. Crystal Donovan who is our main female character - finds her sister kidnapped and now someone known as Anonymous1 is sending her on a set of dangerous games and if she doesn't follow Anonymous rules then her sister is dead. I have to admit about 100 pages towards the ending, I did guess who Anonymous 1 was, and then it all made sen...

Review: The Awakening - Book #2 Sapient Salvation - Jayne Faith and Christine Castle - January 2016. I first read Book #1 a few years back and was hooked as I was transported into a book that was like The Hunger Games meets Syfy meets Harem novels. Each year a group of males and females are chosen from Earth to go to the planet Calista, and there they fight in a tournament, sort of like The Hunger Games as they have challenges, deaths, and each participant has a guide. In the end, the winners will become part of the King's Harem. The Awakening has two storylines as it has the Tournament in which Maya is competing in but someone aka Akantha and possibly more want her dead as she is proving to be a threat as unlike any of the previous participants Maya has captured both Prince Toric and his brother Jeric's affections. The second storyline is that there is a prophecy which connects Earth and the planet Calista together and it seems that the prophecy ...