Review: The Secrets We Buried - Becca Day - September 2023 Traveling back on the bus from Auckland after a busy weekend, I was in the mood for a bit of a thriller and hopped on my Libby App and clicked on The Secrets We Buried by Becca Day. I hadn't heard of this author, but the book sounded interesting and I enjoyed it, so will be checking out her other thrillers. The book starts with a funeral and Frankie has returned to Millionaire's Row. Five years ago, after her friend died Frankie and her family moved away for a fresh start. She knows she shouldn't have come back, but Zara was once her best friend and her mum was someone Frankie respected. Frankie's visit though coincides with someone else - Juniper Rose. She is a YouTuber and True Crime aficionado and aims to solve the murder of Geneva Lee. Geneva made up the foursome friend circle that included Frankie, Zara, and Nadine. That night, Geneva died - the friends made a pact to never talk about it and act like they...

Review: 14 Ways to Die - Vincent Ralph - December 2019 With everything going on in my life this past week and also with the news of friends and family and areas damaged by the floods, things have been rocky and crazy over the past couple of weeks, so much that I have found my reading not being as prolific as usual. This past week, I only managed to read two books and had a handful of DNFS. One of the books I managed to finish was Vincent Ralph's 14 Ways to Die. This book was an awesome YA thriller read and incorporated not only a decade long serial killer but also was able to show the differences between what it was like ten years ago when the characters Mum died in 2009 to the present time in 2019 and how far technology has come.  When Jess's mum first died, the police put articles in the newspaper but never came close to catching her killer. Now ten years later, Jess has the chance to expose and catch the killer known as the Magpie Man. Since Jess's mum died - 12 more h...

Coming to a Netflix screen near you is "The Grishna Series" by Leigh Bardugo. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart. Watch T...

  Review: The Awakening of Sunshine Girl - Book #2 The Haunting of Sunshine Girl Series - Paige McKenzie and Alyssa B. Sheinmel - March 2016 Based on the Youtube series, which I still have to watch is Book #2 in the series about Sunshine Griffiths. Sunshine was abandoned as a baby on the footsteps of the local hospital, and now she is sixteen she is experiencing new and weird things. She has now learned that she is part of a rare race called luseach and that she is the last one of the line. Her biological father has returned to collect Sunshine so that she can start learning how to fight and expand her skills. While doing so on the complex he owns, Sunshine will learn about the awful events that happened sixteen years ago and caused a massive rift in the luseach community and why she is now the most hunted one and why a lot of people including her biological mother want her dead. While training, though, it seems that someone in Sunshine's life has been ...