Crooked Kingdom is the sequel to Six of Crows, the story of six teenagers with extremely different backgrounds united for a common cause: conducting a heist. After the effects of all the events that occurred in previous weeks, the crows have a lot to deal with. Despite being successful with the heist, they are all exhausted and weakened by their efforts.
Lowen Ashleigh is walking down the street when someone gets into a car accident. She stays to clean up when a stranger, Jeremy Crawford, also helps her clean up. They share an intimate moment. Jeremy’s wife, Verity, was a famous author who was tragically killed in a car crash. Jeremy asks Lowen to finish Verity’s novels and even offers to let her live in his house. While Lowen is living there, she finds Verity’s unpublished autobiography where strange and mysterious things are revealed about her life.
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is a novel about Lily Bloom, a girl with a rough past, who falls in love with neurosurgeon - Ryle Kincaid. Their relationship grows and Lily begins to see Ryle’s darker, abusive side, taking her through flashbacks to her past. This book defines the complexities of abusive relationships, mainly the struggle to leave them as the love and emotional manipulation is hard to break away from. It explores Lily’s growth and strength to leave a toxic relationship.
The Only One Left by Riley Sager is a fictional thriller that tells the tragic events of Lenora Hope’s past at Hope's End through her caregiver, Kit McDeer. Lenora is not the only one with a tragic past involving murder; Kit also has a mysterious story to tell. Throughout the book, more and more murders take place while Kit tries to uncover the secrets of the past and present. This book keeps readers interested by slowly revealing clues of Lenora’s past.
A Court of Wings and Ruin is the third book in the series and wraps up the original storyline in a well written, exciting adventure. This book is filled with so much action and you will never be bored. After her friends and new family are betrayed, Feyre is forced to go back to the Spring Court and take revenge from within. Feyre plans to destroy the King of Hybern and the Spring Court after turning her sisters into Fae. Feyre faces down the King of Hybern once and for all in this thrilling and emotional ending.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Reading it I had completely no problems or concerns. I rarely give books 5 stars but The Picture of Dorian Grey was a masterpiece. The book delves into the story of a beautiful man named Dorian Grey as he grapples with his appearance, realizing how beautiful he is and his fear of getting older and losing his beauty. He curses his portrait, stating how he'll get older while the portrait stay young forever.
Everyone knows who Jack the Ripper is, but nobody ever figured out who he was. Stalking Jack the Ripper is a thrilling tale that answers that very question. It follows Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth who has a knack for the dead. She studies bodies with her uncle who is a doctor. A string of murders starts appearing in England and Audrey has no choice but to try to solve the mystery. With the help of her uncle's seemingly annoying assistant Thomas, they try to solve these murders.
And Then They Were None is a classic mystery written by Agatha Christie. It surrounds the story of ten strangers who get invited to stay at a famous island called Soldier Island. After landing and settling into their house, they find out at dinner that they were all there because they were connected to past murders of people. This book highlighted themes of guilt, justice, and wealth. In my personal opinion, I enjoyed this book and would give it four stars.
When a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down, Ralph and the rest of the boys take refuge on an abandon island. During the war, a break from everyone seems nice, and the boys quickly build a shelter and thrive on their new island home. Although everything seems right at first, it’s not long until being cut off from civilization leads some of the boys to turn feral and separate into groups, preparing for war of their own.
Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys that get stuck on an island. They try to make rules and pick leaders, but they can't seem to maintain that structure. They start turning on each other and turning into savages. It shows how kids act when there's no grown-ups around and how people change when they are away from civilization.
