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...

Review: Eyes of the Forest - April Henry - August 2021 One of my must-read YA thriller authors to read is April Henry as I have found I always enjoy her stories. So, when I saw Eyes of the Forest ready to read and review, I jumped at the chance and read it as soon as it arrived on my kindle. What makes this book more intricate than her previous books is that it is like two books in one. The story starts with a reclusive hermit author called Robert Haldon who is like this world's George RR Martin who has written an amazing fantasy series but his last book still years later is unpublished as he has really bad writers' block. His fans are angry and some have sent death threats. One crazed fan and his mother end up kidnapping him and locking him in a cabin with only a typewriter and paper as they think if he is in the middle of nowhere with no distractions, he will write. The book then takes on a Misery storyline by Stephen King and reminded me of a modern YA Twist of Stephen's...