book reviews, Callie Hart

RIOT HOUSE – CALLIE HART

**Spoilers Alert, Read On With Caution** This was a book that GoodReads recommended to me, and I read about the first five percent, and then stupidly let a few lukewarm reviews deter me from carrying on. I switched to reading THE HAPPY EVER AFTER PLAYLIST, finished it, and flipped back stumbling on gold. RIOT HOUSE is so insanely clever, thought out and intense! I wasn’t expecting the plot to have half the twists that it did, or for it to be so complex at times with its plot. I was expecting a bully/hate-to-love romance in a boarding school, and yes we got that, but also a heavily foreshadowed...

book reviews, Tessa Bailey

GETAWAY GIRL – TESSA BAILEY

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** I’ve read a couple of Tessa Bailey’s books before, namely FIX HER UP and LOVE HER OR LOSE HER and so I had very high expectations for GETAWAY GIRL. But I have to say, the magic wasn’t quite with me for this one. Something was missing, it felt both rushed and too slow at the same time; like the plot was not moving fluidly and sometimes needed a time leap to get it where it needed to be. I couldn’t properly visualise...

book reviews, L. J. Shen

MIDNIGHT BLUE – L. J. SHEN

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** This is the last L. J. Shen book that I have left to read and I’m so mad that this book took forever to arrive because I could have read it earlier and marvelled at it sooner! It’s so good! The pacing, the characters, the settings and descriptions, and of course the pent up tension and inevitable explosion; so good! MIDNIGHT BLUE is about a rockstar...

book reviews, L. J. Shen

IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT – L. J. SHEN

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** “We come from dust and return to dust.” I have to admit, that because I saw a couple of negative reviews of IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT, so I was apprehensive of reading it as I didn’t want the magic of LJ’s writing to have been missed; but oh my god that reviewer was blind! This book is fantastic, and so fulfilling as a reader to get to experience. I read this in a day...