Review: 10 Hours to Go - Keely Parrack - February 2024 One of my favorite publishers is Sourcebooks Fire as I enjoy their YA thriller stories. In 10 Hours to Go, we meet Lily who has been off visiting for the day a potential college, and instead of catching a flight or the bus back home. She has been given a ride home from her old best friends Natasha and Elke - four years ago the girls had a big fallout as Lily snitched and the result meant that Elke got expelled her family moved away and then Natasha lost her friendships. Everything spiraled out of control and now this ride home is going to be filled with four years of built-up resentments and for Natasha, she has planned to give Lily a taste of her own medicine. The thing though is life never goes to plan as what should have been a 10-hour ride home ends up a crazy two-day ride as they are directed to off-roads as a nasty fire is spreading through their journey.  In a way, I did enjoy this book as it was a good thriller, but on ...

A Trip Down Memory Lane E.D. Hackett Publication date: October 1st 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance A wedding, a snowstorm, and a road trip with your ex…what could possibly go wrong? Cassidy McCarthy, a single woman from Tampa, is on her way back to Boston for the first time in years to attend her best friend’s wedding. While guilt has kept her away from her home and family, she simply can’t turn her best friend down. At the airport, Cassidy becomes stranded by a freak snowstorm and is unexpectedly thrust into the path of her ex, Dusty. Forced to share the last rental car and a journey up the Eastern seaboard together, they are confronted with the shared past and buried emotions they both presumed long gone. Cassidy can’t help but wonder if their story isn’t over yet… When Dusty arrives at the wedding with another woman on his arm, Cassidy is thrown for a loop and reminded yet again of the destructive behaviors of her past. Will she find the strength to fix her mi...

Review: Survive the Night - Riley Sager - June 2021 Charlie is headed home to her grandmothers as her university days, for now, is over as she is riddled with guilt as her best friend and roommate Maddy was murdered and Charlie believes it is all her fault since she left her alone after they argued one night after clubbing. Looking at the rideshare board, hoping she can leave a bit early and save the money. She meets Josh who she learns is leaving early as his dad has had a stroke. Even though the two are strangers, Charlie realizes he can't be that bad, or can he? The drive back starts innocently but soon things are taking a strange turn and since Charlie has suffered movie hallucinations, she can't trust herself what is true or fantasy but part of her is certain that Josh is lying about who he is and things aren't adding up he is acting like he might be the Campus Killer - the guy who killed her best friend Maddy. Is he afraid that Charlie saw him and can identify him a...

Title: Don't Call Me Greta A Stolen at Birth Novel Author: Angie Stanton Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction Release Date: April 19, 2021 BLURB Piper Winslow’s life is destroyed when her mother is arrested for kidnapping her as an infant. With her mom in jail and her family about to reclaim her as Greta--her birth name--what can she do? Run, of course. Escaping close calls and dominating headlines while eluding authorities, Piper and an unlikely passenger are on a harrowing adventure. Piper’s birth parents are determined. She is discovered and returned to her real family…but not everyone is happy to see her. As Piper struggles to cope in her new life, she hits one obstacle after another. This family that appears to perfect on the outside harbors secrets, and nothing is as it seems. Will Piper ever be accepted? Will she ever fit in? Will they stop calling her Greta? ADD TO GOODREADS PURCHASE LINKS AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU Free in Kindle Unlimited...