Review: The Bitch Cup - Zachary Ryan - August 2023 I previously read a series called High School Queens by Zachary Ryan which was a series about a new girl known as The Marked Queen who wanted to expose the secrets hidden in their school walls and become Queen Bee. The series was a fun YA thriller set in the high school cliques of Queen B's. When I saw that Zachary Ryan had a new one out, I clicked buy now as I thought I would enjoy the book. However, when I opened it, it was a story I was familiar with, and then went to High School Queens to make sure this wasn't a re-release. It wasn't though as a brand new high school Lincoln High and a group of new characters and the Queen had a new name. In The Bitch Cup we have The Shadow Queen. Each year Lincoln High hosts The Bitch Cup where the new High School Queen will end up ruling the next Senior year. Everyone whose names are chucked in the cup, thinks they have it in to win and the goal aims to expose the others' deepes...

Review: Cutthroat Cheerleader - Zachary Ryan - November 2020 After reading Zachary Ryan's High School Queens which reminded me of the TV series Gossip Girl, when I saw that he had a new one and that it was another mystery this time with murder - it captured my attention and I wanted to read it. In Cutthroat Cheerleader we first meet Madison who is a cheerleader who is missing. We later find out that she has been murdered and was Queen B around the school. She was the one everyone wanted to be and pretended to like but deep down hated, she was feared and loved at the same time. Stuck in purgatory, Madison watches as life at the school unfolds and people she thought she knew and trusted are two-faced and that everybody is hiding a dark secret. When a new girl starts, Madison is impressed by her and hopes that as her dad is the sheriff - she can help solve her murder. Meanwhile, Kelsey - the preacher's daughter is busy paving her way to be the "new" Queen Bee but if she ...

Silent Screams by Zachary Ryan Genre: Thriller  For a group of friends, one mistake changed the course of their lives forever. In the aftermath of a tragic school shooting, the group must find their own form of justice and a way to begin healing from a wound that just won’t stop hurting. For them, the lines were drawn. Right and wrong became blurred. Friends became enemies. Told from the perspective of four friends, we learn how one student’s revenge reigned terror over a school and a community-- causing secrets to unfold and relationships to be tested. A compelling and powerful story about a school shooting. A must read. Goodreads * Amazon Zachary Ryan grew up in a black-and-white box in Maryland, before moving to Chicago to start a new life. There, he found that he was accepted for his misfit status—and learned that it’s perfectly normal to spend your twenties feeling lost and confused. After a disastrou...

Review: One Queen of an Ending - Book #3 High School Queens - Zachary Ryan - TBC 2019 We are back with the Johnson Prep crowd and if they thought their secrets died at Graduation and once they left the high school building they would be free, they all have another thing coming as now there is a Queen who is willing to get the ultimate revenge - that revenge is death and she isn't afraid to kill either. The book starts off with Jordan's funeral and then takes a Pretty Little Liars twist with the characters along with a couple of newbies whom we met in the last book as they all received a text message that the game of secrets isn't over and this Queen means business.  We also are reunited with old characters as Jasmine returns back with her mother from Europe hoping to mend fences and Emily is back on the heroin and seeing Matthew's ghost as it features quite prominently in the book. As the games begin and the secrets are threatened, we see the cas...