Brynn Hilder is living a life she never dreamed possible: She lives in a mansion, getting a top-rate education at Vale Hall. She has friends and an almost-boyfriend. Anything she wants, she can have.
The only catch? To stay in this life, she has to help the director of Vale Hall take down the bad guys of Sikawa City by collecting secrets and running cons.
Getting everything she wants and fighting evil doesn’t seem like such a bad deal. The thing is, she’s not so convinced anymore that Dr. Odin is really going after bad people after all. And the friends and almost-boyfriend that have made her life so different are all liars and con artists—so can she trust that any of it is real?
The stakes are higher. The cons are riskier. And nothing is what you think it is.
My Review:
Welcome back to Vale Hall!
Scammed was such an excellent read. Prefect follow up to the Deceivers series. If you have yet read the first book then disregard this review. Scammed has more bigger cons/heists and a deadly game being play. Who can you really trust on the end?
Brynn life at Vale Hall this year starts out great and her life turning out pretty good. Until her mark from the first book shows up unannounced. Now Brynn must go to work and put her life on hold again. This time a deadly game is being played by someone you least unexpected.
Scammed is more fast pace read and lots of head games going on. So much happens with the story and it’s hard trusting anyone. This book has so many crazy stuff going, and you be begging for the third book Payback right away. Lucky for you guys Payback comes our February 2, 2021.
So get ready to enjoy bigger surprises in this book. Some forbidden romance and a shocking ending that leaves you wanting more.
Also look out for my review of Payback that’s coming out next week.
Katharyn Blair crafts a fiercely feminist fantasy with a horrifying curse, swoon-worthy sea captains, and the power of one girl to choose her own fate in this contemporary standalone adventure that’s perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and Seafire, and for anyone who has ever felt unchosen.
For Charlotte Holloway, the world ended twice.
The first was when her childhood crush, Dean, fell in love—with her older sister.
The second was when the Crimson, a curse spread through eye contact, turned the majority of humanity into flesh-eating monsters.
Neither end of the world changed Charlotte. She’s still in the shadows of her siblings. Her popular older sister, Harlow, now commands forces of survivors. And her talented younger sister, Vanessa, is the Chosen One—who, legend has it, can end the curse.
When their settlement is raided by those seeking the Chosen One, Charlotte makes a reckless decision to save Vanessa: she takes her place as prisoner.
The word spreads across the seven seas—the Chosen One has been found.
But when Dean’s life is threatened and a resistance looms on the horizon, the lie keeping Charlotte alive begins to unravel. She’ll have to break free, forge new bonds, and choose her own destiny if she has any hope of saving her sisters, her love, and maybe even the world.
Because sometimes the end is just a new beginning.
My Review:
Unchosen was such an amazing read. . The storyline was out of this worl. I do enjoy end of the world reads.. Unchosen has so many characters to fall in love with. Also the cover is very pretty and breathtaking. Thanks so much for letting be a part of this blog tour. Unchosen was such suspenseful from the beginning to the end.
I liked Charlotte in the book. She kinda is reckless in the beginning. Charlotte just wants to understand what’s happening to her sister, Vanessa . Things change when their safe place gets broken into, then Charlotte forces to take Vanessa place as chosen one. She will learn more about the world around her on the outside, and will have to trust unlikely allies.
I love the sibling bonding within the book also. Harlow is the leader in the group. She knows what’s best for her sisters and will so anything to keep them safe. Then you have Vanessa is been mostly shelter since the world was attack. Only her family knows that she had become the chosen one. Vanessa sleep walks and says strange stuff sometimes. Then there is Charlotte who is the rebellion one in the group. She is willing to follow any leads to help her sister, Vanessa. Even if she might get herself into a little trouble. These sisters bonds for each other I enjoy reading about.
This book was very action packed. I like how tense it feels at times and you have no idea who will live on die. You will fall in love with so many different characters. It was a nice stand alone book. Unchosen was something different and very end of the world feeling. I did love this book so much from the beginning to the end. I’m so glad I got a chance to read it.
Unchosen had just been recently release, so check it out.
Happy Reading!!!
Author Bio
I live in LA, drink way too much coffee, and write all day long –because I’m crazy blessed to do what I’ve been doing for fun since I was a kid hiding in my garage loft writing terrible, terrible vampire stories. Glitter enthusiast. Bethyl shipper. Pluviophile. Ask me about my Dean Winchester obsession. John 1:5.
I’m wife to Ross and mom to Aryn, Liam, and River Grace. Also, mom to Cricket (a dog, not an insect), Maximus Dogimus Meridius (a ferocious cuddlebug) Maggie Rhee (cat, not the bad ass from The Walking Dead), and Kovacs (no parenthetical needed for him).
Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists.
When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom’s loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood. But she soon learns that Vale chooses students not so much for their scholastic talent as for their extracurricular activities, such as her time spent conning rich North Shore kids out of their extravagant allowances.
At first, Brynn jumps at the chance to help the school in its mission to rid the city of corrupt officials–because what could be better than giving entitled jerks what they deserve? But that’s before she meets her mark–a senator’s son–and before she discovers the school’s headmaster has secrets he’ll stop at nothing to protect. As the lines between right and wrong blur, Brynn begins to realize she’s in way over head.
My Review:
I have read The Deceivers a long time ago. I’m glad I did a nice reread of the first book again. Since the last book of the series Payback is coming out next month. I have fallen in love with this book all over again. The storyline and the characters I really love. There so many people to fall in love with.
Vale Hall is a school of con/heists. Brynn life turns around when she gets recruited to Vale Hall. All her dreams of leaving her past behind seems to come true but who can she really trust at this new school? Will the past have a way coming back to haunt, Brynn?
This book has some nice mind games you don’t see coming. Awesome fun cons/ heists to entertain you. With some drama and forbidden romance this book has it all. In the end you loose yourself and have no idea who to trust. Lucky book two, Scammed is out now to continue the story.
Prefect for fans that love boarding school drama, and heist reads. Maybe a little romance for those who enjoy romance.
A story that begins where too many others end, Girl on the Line is an essential #ownvoices tale of love, loss, and hope for fans of All the Bright Places and Girl in Pieces.
Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it.
But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future’s supposed to look like.
Some days the pain feels as fresh as that day. The one with the pills, the hospital, and the end that didn’t come. Her parents don’t know how to speak to her. Her best friend cracks all the wrong jokes. Her bipolar II disorder feels like it swallows her completely.
But other days—they feel like revelations. Like meeting the beautiful Etta, a community college student who is a world unto herself. Or walking into the office of the volunteer hotline and discovering a community as simultaneously strong and broken as she is.
Or uncovering the light within herself that she didn’t know existed.
Summary:
Stay up all night with this modern day Rebecca! Perfect for fans of Truly Devious—a haunting story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her.
People say the house is cursed.
It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims.
In Louth, they’re called the Dead Girls.
All Bram wanted was to disappear—from her old life, her family’s past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion.
But James is haunted by his own ghosts. Months earlier, his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The tragedy left James a shell of the man Bram knew—and destroyed half the house he’d so lovingly restored.
The manor is creepy, and so are the locals. The people of Louth don’t want outsiders like Bram in their town, and with each passing day she’s discovering that the rumors they spread are just as disturbing as the secrets they hide. Most frightening of all are the legends they tell about the Dead Girls. Girls whose lives were cut short in the very house Bram now calls home.
The terrifying reality is that the Dead Girls may have never left the manor. And if Bram looks too hard into the town’s haunted past, she might not either.
Summary:
A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank heist.
Nora O’Malley’s been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother’s protégé. But when mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape.
For five years Nora’s been playing at normal. But she needs to dust off the skills she ditched because she has three problems:
#1: Her ex walked in on her with her girlfriend. Even though they’re all friends, Wes didn’t know about her and Iris.
#2: The morning after Wes finds them kissing, they all have to meet to deposit the fundraiser money they raised at the bank. It’s a nightmare that goes from awkward to deadly, because:
#3: Right after they enter bank, two guys start robbing it.
The bank robbers may be trouble, but Nora’s something else entirely. They have no idea who they’re really holding hostage…
John Green meets Laurie Halse Anderson in this “haunting” and “incredibly real” book that “holds you there until the very last sentence”.
16-year-old Wes McCoy is not the favorite child.
He does not have a wrestling scholarship to Stanford nor does he live up to the family legacy as an athlete, unlike his brother, Jason. But when Jason dies in a car accident on the way to the state high school wrestling championship, Wes turns to food to give him the control over his life he didn’t have before– the kind of success he never tasted.
Wes must take back control from his eating disorder as he learns more about himself and the mystery surrounding Jason’s accident, before he loses his life and those closest to him.
My Review:
Starvation was such a emotional read. The story line was very interesting and something different. I always read mental health or personal reads like eating disorders books. Really do find these read very insightful and a little relatable sometimes what I go through with mental health wise. This read was very different because you get a guys point of view with the disorder than always the girls.
The main character Wes, you really feel for him in the book. You see how much pressure his father puts on him and his brother to become a wrestler like everyone else in the family. The only holding him back is his weight. If he can lower his weight he can be the best. So with the help from a girl at school he learns what it takes to become skinny. Since that all he can seem to control in his life.
This book may have some trigger warnings for some readers. I found this book an enjoyable read and very insightful with eating disorders and mental health that comes with it. It was a nice discovery on finding this read.
Figure skating was supposed to be my whole world. But one unlucky injury and now I’m down…but I’m definitely not out. I just need to rehab—a boatload of rehab—and who’d have thought I could do it on the boys’ hockey team?
Of course, the infuriatingly hot captain of the team seems to think I’m nothing but sequins and twirls. What’s a girl to do but put him in his place? Game on.
Brodie
Hockey is my whole world. I’ve worked my tail off getting my team in a position to win the championships—hopefully in front of major college scouts, too—so what’s a guy to do when a figure skater ends up as our new goalie?
Of course, the distractingly sexy skater thinks I’m nothing but a testosterone-laced competitive streak. And surely she’s only biding her time to heal, then she’s gone. Game over.
My Review:
In The Penalty Box was such a delightful read. The storyline was so much fun and love how the characters interact with each other. It was such a feel good read. I’m such a huge fan of ice skating movies, books and anime. This book was so prefect fit for me. Also I like the cover design for it, you can see the sparks fly with the main characters.
I really love Willow in the book. She is very head strong type of girl and knows what she wants. Willow loves the ice skating until an accident sent her back her home. Now she must train to get back to the top with some unexpected help from hottie hockey player, Brodie.
Brodie is one hot hockey player dealing with a lot of stuff going on at home. He finds himself getting drawn into Willow world. He becomes impress how she handles herself with the haters on the team. He knows Willow was only on the team only temporarily, but can’t help and fall for her.
Will Brodie be able to convince Willow there more to life than just ice skating?
This book is prefect for people who like The Cutting Edge Movies, or Yuri on Ice anime. It has forbidden romance, ice skating, hockey, drama and some fun all mix into one.
Katharyn Blair crafts a fiercely feminist fantasy with a horrifying curse, swoon-worthy sea captains, and the power of one girl to choose her own fate in this contemporary standalone adventure that’s perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and Seafire, and for anyone who has ever felt unchosen.
For Charlotte Holloway, the world ended twice.
The first was when her childhood crush, Dean, fell in love—with her older sister.
The second was when the Crimson, a curse spread through eye contact, turned the majority of humanity into flesh-eating monsters.
Neither end of the world changed Charlotte. She’s still in the shadows of her siblings. Her popular older sister, Harlow, now commands forces of survivors. And her talented younger sister, Vanessa, is the Chosen One—who, legend has it, can end the curse.
When their settlement is raided by those seeking the Chosen One, Charlotte makes a reckless decision to save Vanessa: she takes her place as prisoner.
The word spreads across the seven seas—the Chosen One has been found.
But when Dean’s life is threatened and a resistance looms on the horizon, the lie keeping Charlotte alive begins to unravel. She’ll have to break free, forge new bonds, and choose her own destiny if she has any hope of saving her sisters, her love, and maybe even the world.
Because sometimes the end is just a new beginning.
The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the ’80s, by New York Times best-selling satirist Andrew Shaffer.
Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre.
But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her co-workers’ mean-spirited pranks. The hazing reaches its peak during the company’s annual Secret Santa gift exchange, when Lussi receives a demonic-looking object that she recognizes but doesn’t understand. Suddenly, her coworkers begin falling victim to a series of horrific accidents akin to a George Romero movie, and Lussi suspects that her gift is involved. With the help of her former author, the flamboyant Fabien Nightingale, Lussi must track down her anonymous Secret Santa and figure out the true meaning of the cursed object in her possession before it destroys the company—and her soul.
My Review:
What happens you get a cursed secret Santa gift?
Lussi is out of work and looking for the perfect job. She went for an interview to be new horror genre assistant, but things don’t go as plan. When she don’t get hire, the boss suddenly drops dead. Lucky the son of the boss see something in her and hires her on the spot. Now she is a part of an office hazing and got an strange gift from a secret Santa. All of a sudden co-workers start mysterious dying and weird accidents happening around Lussi. Can she solve this mystery before it’s to late?
Secret Santa was the most cheesiest 80s horror movie ever. Which I did enjoy every minute of it. It was the prefect Christmas story I could read all year long. Also I love the creepy cover to it. This book is prefect for any horror fans out there.
The main character, Lussi you kinda feel bad for her. She tries hard getting a new job and trying to get more people reading more horror stuff. Then there some weird hazing happens and secret meetings without her. Kinda like high school in an office settings.
It has creepy basements, a weird protection doll with horns, and very suspicious co-workers. Has all the makings for a killer book.
What if with every person you met, after just one touch, you have a vision of the last time you’ll see each other? Ever. Normally, these visions are innocent—two friends just drifting apart, a random stranger that brushed past you then never crossed your path again.
But not today.
When I accidentally touch him, within only moments of our first meeting, I’m bombarded by visions of his death.
And from what I can see, I’m the reason he dies.
Now I just need to figure out why, and how to stop this from happening. Because not only am I to blame, but his very last words to me are…I love you
My Review:
What if you have a curse to see someone furture by touching them for the first time?
To Whatever End is not your typical love story. The main character, Quinn has a gift to see how her furture will be with a boy after one touch. Every vision she had so far, shows her ending up getting hurt. So Quinn keeps to her self and her photographs. Then one day she accidentally brush up against a boy, and has a new vision of his death.
Will Quin be able to use her curse for good and change a boy’s fate before it’s to late?
This book was a very enjoyable read and tense at times. I love the connection between both characters. It was a neat twist on a love story when someone is curse. I really love every minute of it. To whenever ends has some humor and heart to it. It was such a fast pace read. Yea it was a short read to begin with fill with some nice twists along the way and having to root for the main characters in the very end.
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