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THE FEAR C.L. TAYLOR ***** At age 14 Lou Wandsworth runs away to France to be with Mike, a much older man who is her karate instructor. After escaping and trying to build up her life she returns to her home town at 32 to find that Mike is grooming another young girl – can she stop the past from repeating itself? The Fear is a dark and twisted psychological thriller; it actually took me a while to read this book which I usually take as an indication that it will be given a low

JINXED THOMMY HUTSON * Trask Academy of Performing Arts is an elite, secretive academy set on its own private island. Funded by wealthy sponsors, it teaches only the best students the arts of singing, dancing, acting and writing. But in an atmosphere of intense competition everyone wants to be the star and as the bodies begin the pile up who will survive the show? Jinxed is best described as a young adult fiction horror/slasher with some truly gruesome and well-described murd

WHERE THE MISSING GO EMMA ROWLEY ***** When 15 year old Sophie runs away from home, her mother Kate is devastated. A seemingly happy girl in a perfect life, what more should she have done to stop her from wanting to run away? 2 years later, grief is still eating away at Kate as her marriage and life falls apart around her, then a surprise phone call from Sophie brings up more questions and starts Kate on mission to find her daughter and bring her home. Where the Missing Go is

THE GENERAL THEORY OF HAUNTING RICHARD EASTER ** K&K Publishing reserve Marryman Hall as a last resort for a New Years Eve party, but as the snow draws in only 6 colleagues make it to the house. The oddly designed house is beautiful but it seems to hold a sinister purpose; there’s echoing footsteps in the hallways, strange figures in the dark and not everything is at it appears. The General Theory of Haunting is at heart a traditional ghost story, however it does have a nice

THE BOY ON THE BRIDGE M R CAREY ***** The Boy on the Bridge is a prequel to The Girl with all the Gifts, following the story of the research crew on board the Rosalind Franklin, an armoured truck sent out to the wastelands of the Hungry-plague ridden world to collect samples and find a resistance or cure to the upcoming extinction of the human race. Tensions run high as the mixture of 12 soldiers and scientists are enclosed in a small space as the apocalypse rages around them

EVERYTHING IS LIES HELEN CALLAGHAN ***** After a night out with work colleagues Sophia heads to her parents to pay them a visit following an odd phone call from her mother. What follows will shock her world and make her question everything she has ever been told about her past – is everything lies? Everything is Lies certainly works better if you go in not knowing what to expect, I had read the blurb but the actual subject matter remained a mystery to me and was therefore a n

THE BELLES Dhonielle Clayton ***** In the city of Orléans, the people believe they have been cursed by the gods – with grey skin, red eyes and straw-like hair they long for a world of colour. The Belles are the answer to their prayers to the Goddess of Beauty – women born in technicolour with arcane talents to manipulate bodies, shape appearances and alter temperaments. Camellia and her Belle sisters are finally at an age to be shown to the world, and compete take up their ca

Saving Noah Lucinda Berry Rating: **** Ever since Noah was a baby, his mother Adrianne has always told him that she 'will love you no matter what'. However, when he confesses to molesting 6 year old girls at his swim class, the very core of that mantra is tested as Adrianne watches her world, her marriage and her son fall apart around her. Saving Noah is a difficult read; it's heart breaking in places and utterly frustrating in others but it is an interesting insight on a ver