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This was an homage to horror flicks and the Final Girl in slasher films. There are a lot of references to these folks throughout. The main girl Alice has a Halloween movie theme song as her ringtone and there are Scream bits (a girl that looks like Sidney Prescott).

Alice loses her sister Claire to a killer one Halloween night.... And Alice saw who did it. A year later, at the trial where she's set to testify, she is knocked unconscious and sent back to the same day Claire died. She is given until midnight to find out the truth by a Final Girl guardian angel.

It's always a bad idea to go back to the past and try to change it, haven't we learnt this yet? But i did enjoy all the suspects that the killer could be and it was always flipping. I didn't guess who it was and if I had, the ending might have pissed me off earlier 🤣

This was definitely a character study. I grew to love all these characters. It's not a very happy tale but it shows a great coming of age for FeFe.

This will be a summer of changes for the neighborhood where 12 year old Fe lives. There will be shootings, police raids, innocent lives taken, accusations that aren't always accurate and some that are. Slowly, people that live there are forced to move.  

It's a short 210 pages, but it packs a punch. It makes you feel so many emotions. Makes you wait to protect these innocent children and help the ones who lives drastically change 

A fun summer read that brings you into the lives of 3 very different women who spend a summer in the Hamptons. I liked all 3 when and were cheering them all on in different ways.

Nora just sold her company but also got divorced. Her big house is finished in the Hamptons with no one to share it with.

Megan came to live in the guesthouse of Nora's house when her summer plans have fallen through. She reluctantly gets a job as an SAT tutor and did not get along with her boss Joel until she comes to understand him better.

Courtney came to the Hamptons to live with a college acquaintance who she hardly knows and she sees a different side of this person that isn't someone she can ever be friends with.

I thought I saw some directions this book might have taken but am actually glad that things turned out the way they did.

I should not have slept on this book and read it when it was first published!

Ok, I hate reality TV. That's why I slept on this. But OH. MY. GOODNESS! I got so much more out of this.

Yes there was the reality TV with the "prince" Charlie set to find love with the "girl of his dreams" in mere weeks-  though Charlie has OCD and anxiety and this isn't easy for him. 
Dev is to be his handler. It doesn't take long for Dev to know how Charlie functions and starts helping him.

I loved seeing the relationship with Charlie and Dev develop. I love the talk they have as Charlie starts to figure out what he feels on a sexual spectrum, what he identifies as. I love the mental health rep and how they candidly talk about it.

I was just swooning over these two!

It was a bit disjointed at times but I actually ended up liking it pretty well. I got confused in this world. People can have their shadows taken away from them, make the shadows do things for them.

I did really like Charlie. She's brash but tough. She had to be to be a con artist at a young age (thanks to get mother's many terrible boyfriends). She's always wanted to protect her sister.

The underground world of glomists are intriguing. I can't wait to see what book 2 has in store though as the book ended in a bit of a cliffhanger (to me at least!)

This was the first in the series that I've read so I didn't get to know the family dynamics and this cousin bet real well. I was able to follow along though.

Nash needs to win this bet- to not fall in love and be The Last Man Standing. Chelle needs to marry based on her father's will so she doesn't lose her foundation to a controlling uncle.
A marriage of convenience only needs to make it to New Years when they can get what they need and then divorce.

There were a lot of laugh out loud moments and a lot of spice (no sex rule- flies out the widow pretty soon). But just as these two fell for each other, I had fallen for them. So fun.

I didn't quite get the end, it seemed anticlimactic

I want to live in Mapleton! (Which makes me giggle as we have a Mapleton in my state too)

I loved this small town romance. Julia and Samson just connect really well (aside from a jumbled first meeting) and I love seeing their journey into love!
I like that the whole town is so supportive of what goes on there and when developers want to change it, ultimately the town realizes they don't want change. They like their town the way it is. The 4th of July is a big production with the whole town pitching in! 

What's NOT to love about Winnie and James? He's the grump (oh the grump is on a totally different level than most grumps....I mean, the man loves the word NO!) and she's the sunshine!
Emma is making James (and his brother Pat from The Buy-In) fight for my affection as book boyfriends 😍

This book has a whole lot of the town I love and lots of very funny laugh out loud moments. The pop culture references (look forward to some of The Office and what Meatloaf MIGHT have been talking about when he says "I will do anything for love but I won't do THAT"). There were also some tears shed as Winnie and her brother Chevy talk about their dad (not OVER the dad but you have to read to know).

It has heart and brightness, struggles and fears, but ultimately love conquers all!

I read this book in a matter of hours! The writing makes it so readable and it just flies along. There were some slower moments but I felt that most of it was just sort of action packed.
It has a great LGBTQIA+ representation.

This has been compared to The Picture of Dorian Grey but as I've not read it, I can't tell you what it might be similar.

It's parts an art story, but some is the art is nefarious in nature. It's also the story of the blossoming romance between Mick and Veronica. They are both helping Nico out with his "art installs" that step by step gets more dangerous for all involved.

The girls, especially Mick, get deeper and deeper involved with Nico to scary results. The conclusion is open ended thick and that bugs me a bit, but it would be forgiven if another book came as a sequel.

Hunting knows how to write some wonderful characters!

This is the second book in the Spark House series and we get to see middle sister London fall for millionaire Jackson. You don't need to read book 1 but I feel it gives you more insight into the sisters that way.

The way that London and Jackson meet, twice, is so fun. He totally wasn't recognizable from first meeting to second. The sparks (yep I went there 😉) between the two are almost sizzling from the get go. I do appreciate that Jackson held off on any kind of showing feelings until after they technically stopped working on a charity event.

They are so sweet together and yes there is a misunderstanding (as all romances seem to have) but it takes an unconventional talk from someone to get the two back together.