Review: South Hills Sidekicks - Uninvited - Leah Spiegel and Meg Summers - February 2012 Scrolling through my kindle and trying to clear my older books, I came across this older YA read. Opening it, I didn't know what it was going to be about but had an idea of a fun YA read. It ended up being more of a YA thriller series, similar to Pretty Little Liars but with a more light-hearted YA teen flick feel to it. This book starts with the new school year for best friends Alley, Val, Kirsten, Kayla, and Libby. This is going to be their year as Kirsten is planning a sweet 18-year-old birthday party and all is going well. There is even a new hottie at school who seems to have Alley's attention, no matter how hard she tries to fight it. I liked this book as Alley's best friend Val is clumsy AF and she makes me laugh. The book gets a bit more interesting when their friend Kirsten is discovered missing and the girls led by Val decide to investigate. While doing so, they find out the...

Review: Playing with Fire -#Book 0 - Prequel - Kiki Swinson - November 2021 Scrolling through my kindle often I end up going into books blind as I have so many on there and I can't remember what they are about, just that they must have sounded good at the time when I originally got them. Some have been misses, but others hit. Playing with Fire by Kiki Swinson is a prequel to a Duology that she released. I haven't read any books by this author before but I am now interested in checking out the duology as I would love to see this character in the present time and see what her life is like now and how her past and what she went through in this book impacted her. In Playing with Fire, our main character Yoshi Lomax is studying Political Science and knows her way around the law. She is a college student and has her fair share of drinking and partying and doing drugs with her roomies. That is until one year over break, a domino effect of incidents will change Yoshi's life for g...