This was an enjoyable read, and it does have some important messages to everyone about bullying.

The one thing that i did take from it all is that i'm so glad that i am not still in school, as kids are just HORRID!

Told from the POV of 4 girls, this story interweaves itself with the 'growing up' of kids in high school, the bullying, fat shaming, victim shaming, slut shaming, religion shaming, and every other shaming that you can think of.

Throughout the book, i think that Ulana was the only 'grown up' in the whole bunch of the girls, and i'm so glad that social media wasn't around when i was that age!

Let me tell you a little story
Are you sitting comfortably?

Then let me begin!

Once upon a time there lived a woman called Maggie, she lives with her daughter Nina.

Maggie loves her daughter very very much, she loves her maybe a little too much, and this makes her very interfering in Nina's life.

Nina doesn't appreciate this and holds a lot of resentment toward Maggie, yet she still lives with her mother, even at nearly 40 years old.

Nina has become a bit of a bitter woman, holding grudges, and even though she projects these onto Nina, she has her own secrets that she is hiding, but Maggie has hers too!

They are civil with each other, and eat dinner with each other every other night, and because Maggie is older and now quite frail, Nina helps her up the stairs to her room, well she need the help really because of the chains she is attached to!

Oh yes, I forgot to mention the fact that Nina has her mother chained up in the attic, sorry about that....My bad!!

You have to read this one to believe it.

Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden who is a fantastic narrator and made my goosebumps get goosebumps


Coming to a TV screen soon (The rights have been picked up by Rene Zellweger) I can't wait to see what they do with this

I received this gorgeous covered book by Harper 360 and I was super excited to read it, I also wanted to start reading more books by Black authors and Own Voices, and helping out more, so I also purchased the Audio version, so this will be a review for both!

Set in Brooklyn 1998 we follow 3 friends, Quadir, Jarrell and Jasmine.

The book starts at the funeral of Quadir and Jarrell's best friend Steph, Jasmine is Steph's little sister, who was murdered.

Jasmine takes herself off into Steph's bedroom for a moment to herself, and is soon followed by the 2 boys, they then find Steph's stash of tapes of his own music under his bed, and notebooks of lyrics.

The 3 kids are so in awe of how brilliant Steph's music is, that they decide that the whole world needs to hear it, but how do they get it heard, especially when the artist himself is dead and they themselves are only teenagers?

Well being in Brooklyn, the Rap scene was the place to be, and while managing to get CD's printed and a few well connected people to listen, they manage to get Steph's music noticed, and by changing his name to "The Architect" they didn't have to mention that Steph isn't around anymore.

But what happens when a big time record producer want to meet the Artist? And how were the kids to know that some of the lyrics could cause a lot of trouble for everyone?


The narration for this book was by a full cast and it was fabulous, the lyrics are Rapped and very poignant for the late 90's and also today.

I enjoyed this book from beginning to end, grab it if you can

I'm loving this series, it is so well narrated and the story is throwing me for a loop!!

Relationship troubles, secrets and lies, it's all jam packed in this book, I'm excited to see where it goes next.

A second chance romance, sign me up!!

Joe Arden and Andi Arndt pull it out of the bag again with their excellent narration, and they brought the characters to life.

This is another revamped story by the author, and she is certainly doing the 'vamping' for this one.

Do you ever wonder "what if" with any of your previous relationships? Here's what happens, if "what if" comes true

If you remember we met Ryan in book 1 of this series, and here is his story.
Mr dirty talker himself Teddy Hamilton pulls this one out of the bag with his portrayal of Ryan.

Lauren Blakely is certainly the one to beat when she is choosing her narrators!

The underlying mystery of the story is slowly being unwound with another Sloane sibling, and I am here for it!!

Katherine Ross is a 41 year old Magazine Editor, she has been working at Leadership for just over 20 years, and she loves it.

She has recently returned back after a spell away after some mental health issues, but she is chomping-at-the-bit to get back to work again.

Unfortunately, new management have taken over the magazine, so she has lot of new people to impress, and she supposes that she'll be working with the new intake of Interns, and they'll all be GenX 'Snowflakes' as usual!

After a strange coincidence with actually getting to work on her first day back, Katherine meets Lily the new Intern, Lily is 23, gorgeous, and as it happens, really good at the job.

Lily also happens to be the niece of the new boss!

Told from the POV of Lily and Katherine, this books starts to twist and turn in directions that I didn't see coming.

Katherine is well aware of Lily's manipulation tactics, but cannot seem to stay away from her, and Lily finds this fascinating, in fact she will do anything she can to infiltrate Katherine's life, and all Katherine can do, is watch while her life tumbles down around her!

I sat on my sofa and read this book in one day, I was so intrigued, I needed to see where it was going, and I was stunned so many times, it was a complete 'Knicker-Twister'