Title: Outcast Author: Denise Jaden Genre: YA Contemporary (with romantic suspense elements) Publication Date: April 20 th , 2018 Hosted by:  Lady Amber’s Reivews & PR Blurb: She’s  not  crazy. Kass Bateman may be a lot of things, but she swears she's not crazy—even when she wakes up strapped to a wheelchair in a psychiatric hospital and can't remember how she got there. When Kass's family members go missing one by one, she enlists the smartest guy she knows to help find them. Unfortunately for her, underneath his brains and indifference are some dark secrets and a whole lot of distracting sexy. Can Kass keep her head together long enough to rescue her family members from their captors—the truly dangerous and crazy ones? Gritty, steamy, and rife with secrecy, Outcast is the first book in a new upper YA/NA crossover series for fans of Gayle Forman and Rainbow Rowell. Denise Jaden’s novels have been shortlisted or received awards thr...

  Review: Abandoned - Elisa Dane - February 2016 Hiding behind a facade can be one of the easiest and hardest things in the world to do at the same time. Tierra Owens is one of those who has a facade of a girl who likes to kiss and sleep around with guys. The truth is though that she only kisses and it is her way of getting herself to be distracted from what her reality at home is like . Tierra's mother is a druggie and alcoholic and someone who likes to play around and go from man to man. Tierra's life at home is a living hell, and when her mom goes on her away binges, it's the only time she feels free and safe. However, Tierra is about to discover that life is going to get more difficult when her mother's latest trip turns out to be a lie and Tierra discovers that she has been abandoned and left with no money for power, food, etc. At only seventeen, Tierra has to keep up the image of a healthy home. Otherwise, she will be taken and put in ...

    Review: Faking Perfect - Rebecca Phillips - June 2015 It's interesting reading books where quite a few seem to follow a specific trend , one of the biggest ones I have seen are books where the main character comes from either a broken home or an abusive one. The character tends to go two ways, she either falls into the "stay away from me " as I am broken or damaged or she tries to fake her way through life acting cheery and what she thinks classifies as the "perfect" one. For Lexi Shaw, she took the latter option . On the inside , she lives with an abusive sometimes but neglectful mother and has one night stands with bad boys - one in particular is Tyler who is the school's epitome of Bad Boy.  The thing is though that Lexi has a crush on Ben - her friend and the popular golden boy at school. But when she finally gets to date her dream guy, will she discover that often those who appear good and perfect are actually ugly creatures inside ...