Review: Ali Cross - The Secret Detective - #Book 3 - Ali Cross - James Patterson - June 2022 One of James Patterson's series that I have been enjoying is Ali Cross's teen detective series. Ali Cross is Alex Cross's youngest child and he is following in his father's footsteps. This book starts with Ali's best friend Gabe creating an app that turns the police scanner into transcription and sends an alert to their cell phones. One early morning Ali and his friend Gabe snuck out to call at an apartment that is known for its gangs. On the scene, Ali sees his dad and then learns a cop has shot one of the gang members. This incident sparks a discussion and debate at school about police shootings and Ali starts to encounter bullying as a "cop kid". What I did like though was that Ali's friends who knew him stood by him during this and his family of course I have always adored. The part that frustrated me the most was Sienna; I hate her character as Ali likes...

Review: Girls of Storm and Shadow - Book #2 Girls of Paper and Fire Series - Natasha Ngan - November 2019 This is a series that I have been enjoying yet normally it wouldn't have been one that I touched but there is just something about the writing that it makes it easy to read and draws the reader in. Normally I wouldn't have read it as A) It's about Asian culture and that doesn't normally interest me as much and B) its a fantasy dystopian and as I went through a huge stage of reading both a while back, I find it difficult to read them these days as it has to be amazing to hold my attention which despite everything that this book contained it still managed and it only took me two days to read. At the end of Book #1, we read as the main characters Wren and Lei had a massive battle with the current King. Wren and Lei were part of his harem and both had strong reasons to get revenge on the king. This book starts with the girls meeting Wren's f...