Review: Liar's Beach - Katie Cotugno - May 2023 This book had been on my Amazon wishlist and I belong to an Instagram group where you buy the person's birthday it is a book. This was my present from @what_sarahs_read. I had been looking forward to this YA Thriller as it was said to be a modern take on Agatha Christie's novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles which I have now to read on my Kindle as it was only 39c on Amazon Ebook- what a score. Liar's Beach is told from the male perspective of Michael Linden which was also a new take for me as I tend to read books that have the female as the lead character unless, of course, it's the Alex Cross series. Linden is on scholarship at his school and is friends with Jay. Jay invites him to his house in a setting like Martha's Vineyard for summer vacation. Looking forward to the break, Linden agrees as he even has the chance and opportunity to hook up with Jay's sister Eliza. All goes well, he even runs into an o...

Review: The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson - September 2022 This book I have had this on my list for a while now and I have read a few of her books and enjoyed them all. This one also captured my attention from the cover as it had a Carrie feel to the book. The Weight of Blood starts with us hearing a podcast about an incident that happened in the small town and was compared to a massacre. The person who is responsible for this was a girl named Maddie. The book then jumps back a few months leading up to the incident with Maddie's truth of being half-black exposed to the school and the bullying begins. The thing is Maddie looks white and has never been allowed to acknowledge her black heritage. Instead, her father punishes her to the closet where the walls are covered with thin, blonde blue-eyed models. Her father's ideal female. During this time, Maddie learns that she has abilities and can move things with her mind and starts to research telekinesis - hence the Carrie r...