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Review: Seven Minutes Later - Bonnie Kistler

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Review: Seven Minutes Later / The Cage - Bonnie Kistler - February 2022 As I started reading this book, it sounded familiar and the character's name Shay Lambert was burned in my memory bank and that's when I did some book research and discovered it had also been titled The Cage and I had tried to read it in September 2022 , but at the time I couldn't push through and it ended up being a DNF. This time, I did manage to finish it but I did see why at the time , I had rated it DNF as it was a slow-paced story and does end up going off in tangents and strange directions. The book starts off with two women in an elevator and the lights go out and the elevator stops. Seven Minutes later, the lights come on and the elevator doors open. Everyone gasps as one of the women are dead with her brains blown out. Shay tells the police how Claudine had a panic attack and took the gun out of her bag and they wrestled with the gun when it went off and killed Claudine. This is the story tha...

Review : Minutes to Kill - Melinda Leigh

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       Review: Minutes to Kill - Book #2 Scarlet Falls Novel - Melinda Leigh - June 2015 I had tried hard to try and clear my TBR bookshelf this month in June. However, the majority of books I tried, I just couldn't get into. Therefore, my trusty Kindle came in handy, and turned to ebooks that had been sitting on my ebook reader for a while. I have always enjoyed reading Melinda Leigh's mysteries and so I turned to one set in Scarlet Falls. Minutes to Kill starts by us reading as a young teenager is trying to escape her pimp as her dream of living a new life turned into a nightmare. On this evening, she runs into Hannah who is a lawyer. Hannah does her best to try and help, but in doing so is attacked and almost left for dead. The young teen is snatched and Hannah ends up in hospital. This event coincides with her heading back home to Scarlet Falls as she is planning to housesit for her brother and also learn some more about her sibling's case who was recently kill...

Review: #Lured - Jo Schneider

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Review: #Lured - Book #2 North Star Series - Jo Schneider - August 2019 I had enjoyed the first book and so continued the series. This series North Star focuses on saving students from ending up in terrible situations like they all had before. From cyber bullying to human trafficking to revenge based consequences. Kaylee Roberts is one of those young females in high school that is teased and treated terribly as she suffers from acne and not only does her mum want her to look stunning all the time, she is bullied by Alison - a mean girl at her school and someone she is competition with on the soccer team. Kaylee has always loved taking pictures and sharing them on Instagram, what happens though when Kaylee is friended by "funguy82" and the pair start sending each other photos including sexual ones. Soon , she is targeted and her photos held for ransom and are threatened to be released to the public. Kaylee has been catfished. On the other hand, Warren as a child was sold to ...

Release Boost: Good and Gone by Britney King

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Title: Good and Gone Author: Britney King Genre: Psychological Thriller Release Date: October 20, 2022 In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the bestselling author of  The Social Affair  and  HER , a young woman must uncover the haunting truth about the turn of events that left her forever marked… On a crisp fall morning in Austin, Texas, it is a day no different from any other for young mother Hailey Adams. Until it is. She goes out for her morning jog and does not come back. When Hailey turns up weeks later with no recollection of where she was—and either unable—or unwilling—to explain what happened to her, those closest to her first question her mental status and then her motives. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media, as well as her loving husband, the popular fitness influencer begins to have flashbacks. But the more Hailey continues to dig, the more reasons she uncovers to keep the truth hidden—from the law...