#VBT - Girls Who Lie Together - Jessa Russo - August 2022 To start with, this book I went and grabbed as I love the cover and it sounded like a fun read and it grabbed my attention with the tagline that read Grease meets Mean Girls. For me, this book was all Grease and yes it did have a mean girl queen bee vibe but was not Mean Girls movie style for me. If Regina George had been a bisexual and had feelings for Cady and then continued to cheat with Eric and Cady, then yes go ahead and compare to Mean Girls. This book starts with the summer break and Ren after wrecking her stepfather's car has been sentenced to community service in the form of building houses with her stepfather's old friend. When she arrives, she learns that her stepfather's friend's niece has also come to stay with them and help build houses and do chores just like Ren. Brit is the pageant type - blonde barbie doll whereas Ren strikes me as an Emo chick personality. As the summer goes along, we learn ...

  Review: The Casquette Girls - Book #1 Casquette Girls - Alys Arden - November 2015 Two things that attracted me to this book was firstly the fact that it was set in New Orleans as I have always had a fascination with New Orleans and the whole city feeling as I would love to be their for Mardi Gras , the second was that it read as a Southern Gothic novel which I knew meant that their would be twists and all sorts of happenings. The book starts off with Adele Le Moyne moving back home to live with her dad after spending time in Paris with her mother at the International School. The book is also set after the Hurricane Katrina which was one of the worst Hurricanes to hit and tore up as well as submerged most of New Orleans under water for a while - so this book has a huge storyline of the clean-up after the tragedy and the effect it had on those that lived in New Orleans at the time. The next part is the Southern Gothic side as there are rumours of Vampires aka The Ca...