Review: #NoEscape - Book #3 #Murdertreding Series - Gretchen McNeil - September 2020 One of my favorite YA thriller authors is Gretchen McNeil and with the new popular trend of Escape Rooms, I figured to read this book as also it was Book #3 in the #murdertrending series. This one though takes us twenty years before the hit killer TV show #MurderTrending - Survivor for Prisoners. This book introduces us to the stories and childhoods of Abe and Kimber Bolton. For those who have read the first two books, you will find those names familiar as The Postman and Kimber was the foster sister/ best friend who did Abe's bidding. The book starts with Persey aka Persephone solving an escape room and then along with her newfound friend Kevin being invited to a massive escape room competition with a select few who have also solved the impossible. When Persey arrives though, she is the youngest one there and the one people seem to be misjudging. For her, this competition is to prove to her father...

Review: #Murderfunding - Book #2 MurderTrending Series - Gretchen McNeil - August 2019 For those who have read Book #1 MurderTrending, you will remember that it finished with our three survivors making it out of Alcatraz 2.0 and escaping the murderous characters as it will be revealed that Alcatraz 2.0 was, in fact, a live-feed killing game orchestrated by the Postman and his daughter. Now with the Postman dead and the main killers, the three remaining survivors are trying to move on with their lives but it's not easy especially since the company Merchant and Bronson are insisting on re-creating the show but calling it Who Wants to be a Paniac? The show boasts that the murders aren't real and for the auditions to come dressed as your favorite murder alter-ego. This story though is based around two girls, in particular, Becca and Stef. They are connected to each other through the character known as Molly Mauler as Stef's father was killed by her on the ...

Review: #Murdertrending - Book #1 MurderTrending Series - Gretchen McNeil - August 2018 What do you get when you have a prison and people love reality TV? You get #MurderTrending at Alcatraz 2.0.  Alcatraz 2.0 is the prisons reserved for the toughest of criminals. It's a show where the prisoners are voted off and are killed off in some different ways by different serial killers.  Dee Guerrera has been charged for the murder of her stepsister, which of course she didn't do. Now she must survive on the island to prove her innocence and discover who killed her stepsister who unlike Dee was a major fan of the show. Strange things are happening on the island though as the hunters are being killed or destroyed, her newfound friends are disappearing, and strange clues to Dee's past and her kidnapping as a child are appearing. Has this got something to do with what Dee went through as a child with her friend Kimmie? I was in two minds about this book ...