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Review: The Lying Kind - Book #1 Detective Rachel Prince Series - Alison James - February 2018 I was scrolling through my kindle and was in the mood for a mystery read and the title "The Missing Girl" jumped out at me. This particular book after doing research on Goodreads had three different titles - The Missing Girl, The Lying Kind and Lola are Missing. The book starts off with Rachel and her partner Mark being handed a cold case, a young girl Lola Harper disappeared and all leads have gone ice cold. Her father has also disappeared without a trace. Rachel and Mark go and interview the mother and it seems that all cases point to a nasty custody battle and that Gavin and his daughter have swanned off somewhere. As the book goes along though and Rachel and Mark interview friends, family, acquaintances things start not adding up and it looks more like the mother knows more than she is letting on. Near the middle of the case, Rachel is alerted to an anonymous poster called Trut...

Review: Foul Line - Book #2 The Ballers of Rockport High - E.M Moore - August 2019 One good thing about being on annual leave from work is that I can get more reading done, normally I would be reading more than I have this week but I've been busy also binge-watching my Criminal Minds in order to catch up to the new season. So during this week,   I am still sitting at a book a day. What it does mean though is I can catch up by clearing my devices as I have the time to browse longer.  At the end of Book #1 in this series, we saw Tessa being left humiliated when the crowd chucked panties on the basketball court. At the start of Book #2, we read as Tessa is preparing for the one place where she can finally get some basketball practice in and the world of Rockport High's hierarchy isn't as important. We also read as her mother is seriously thinking of moving her to Spring Hill which is where the next series that E.M Moore has written is set. Tessa's dream though won't h...

Review: Dear Diary : January - Book #1 Tales from Riverstone High Series - Lacey Heart - January 2020. Dear Diary: January was a book that I would recommend getting from KU if you have it as it was very much a prequel to this series and a beginning. Dear Diary: January starts with our main female character Avery moving to Riverstone to live with her mother whom she hasn't seen since she was ten years old and Avery is now 17 - with only a year to go till her 18th birthday. Avery has moved in with her mother as her dad has died. On her first day, Avery headed to the counselor's office and walks into Cole Ashford who is the King of Riverstone High. We read as Cole breaks up with his girlfriend Maggie who has this Queen Bee feel about her as well. We learn through that Cole is sick of being the one everyone wants and it seems he wants to carve his own path out. The book ended on a cliffhanger and was very tame in terms of bully romances and read more YA than New Adult. I am person...