Review: The Perfect Ruin - Shanora Williams - August 2021 After reading Shanora William's book The Other Mistress, and enjoying the psychological thriller and the edgy twists and turns. I wanted to go back and read some of her other books. I grabbed The Perfect Ruin and set to read this. This one was just as a crazy ride as The Other Mistress. In The Perfect Ruin, we meet Ivy who has been going to a therapist for years ever since her parents were killed and now she has finally been presented with the name of the person who killed her parents and in her mind completely ruined her life. Now Ivy has the name, she is prepared to ruin the person's life as they ruined hers. The name on the paper belongs to Lola Maxwell who is a wealthy philanthropist and owner of a charity helping young mums. Ivy gets plastic surgery from Lola's husband and slowly starts to infiltrate Lola's life and soon gains Lola's trust as one of her BFFs. Lola's other friends are suspicious as I...

Review: Our Stories, Our Voices - Anthology - Various Authors - January 2019 For many Americans, not just the females who are talked about and spotlighted in this anthology, there are a few dates that have stuck in their minds from incidents like the KKK lynchings in the 1950's/1960's, Oklahoma Bombing, Kent State Ohio, September 11th, 2001, Deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King and last but not least the elections of 2016 when Donald Trump won out over Hilary Clinton. Each of these events has played a part in some of the authors' lives who have featured in this essay. We also have edgier topics from sexual harassment, rape, and homosexuality. Our Stories, Our Voices is a collection of essays / short stories from female authors who are prominent in YA fiction talking about their experiences and what they have had to overcome in a world of white superiority, a world where men were told it's ok to have sex with females as they are asking for it. Over the past ten years o...