Review: Cry Havoc - Book #3 Vengeance is Mine Series - Ashley Gee - August 2021 When Evie decided to take Olivia's place at school, she had one thing in mind - to get revenge on those who had hurt her twin sister -Olivia. Despite their differences, the one thing Evie has always done is save her sister from hurt as she sees that as her goal in life - to protect her sister. What Evie didn't count on was falling in love with Drew Van Koch and making friends with her roommates. At the end of Book #2, we were left with the cliffhanger ending as Olivia turned up and Drew was arrested. Now both girls are enrolled at the school but as Evie is Olivia and Olivia is pretending to be Evie. Evie was hoping she and her sister would reunite but turns out her sister is a real biarch and trying to get Evie to leave as Olivia wants to be Queen Bee. As the book goes on, we read as it looks like it's not just Evie with a plan to bring down Havoc House but Olivia has a plan and she is deter...

Review: Have Mercy - Book #2 Vengeance is Mine - Ashley Gee - March 2021 As readers of The Phantom Paragrapher will know that some of my favorite tropes are bullymances, edgy romances, college fiction, and then identical twins tales. Ashley Gee's book #2 Have Mercy has all those tropes featured. We start with the other side of the cliffhanger ending as we have Vaughn and Evie end up in hospital after the car accident. When Evie wakes up, she sees Drake who also now knows that she is Evie and not her twin sister Olivia. Drake wants to find out how the story behind Olivia as it looks like people are willing to kill to have the truth hidden and sealed. In Have Mercy, the pair will team up to find a way to infiltrate and bring down the Havoc Boys once and for all and at the same time get vengeance on those who harmed her sister. What will happen though when the clock is ticking and Drake finds himself framed for charges against Olivia? Have Mercy was a bit more of a twisted tale than...

Review: Raise Hell - Book #1 Vengeance is Mine - Ashley Gee - November 2020 This book had captured my attention from the cover and I was drawn in and OMFG I hadn't read a Bullymance for a few months and I absolutely loved this book, I just loved the main character - she kicked butts and was such a strong character and those twists and turns of the book were like woah , horsy - I didn't see that coming and then of course like most books that are amazing , Raise Hell ended on a massive cliffhanger that had me going Noooo !! you can't end now - I need more which of course just means I have to sit tight and wait for Book #2 to be released. Raise Hell starts with an evening known as Bacchus - which is the party of a lifetime and a girl is found in the woods, beaten to a pulp. The book then jumps six months and signing up for the semester is none other than Olivia Pratt - the girl who was beaten and she is back with a dark secret and revenge on her mind, she wants to bring down t...

Title: Necessary Cruelty Series: Lords of Deception #1 Author: Ashley Gee Genre: New Adult Romance Release Date: August 31, 2020 Blurb Will he save me or break me? Vin Cortland is the crowned prince of Deception High. He is beloved by his subjects and ruthless with his enemies. We used to be friends, once. Not anymore. It’s no secret that he hates me, but only the two of us will ever know why. And the guilt of what I’ve done makes me hate myself more than he ever could. Except love and hate are two sides of the same coin and both will make you burn. Then he comes to me with a proposition: one fake marriage in exchange for enough money to finally escape this town and leave the past behind me. The offer is hard to refuse and Vin isn’t the type to take no for an answer. I want to know why me, but I won’t ask for his secrets when it means revealing my own. He is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me. My savior and my destructi...