On a remote Irish island, Jules Keegan and Will Slater celebrate their wedding. What everyone thinks will be the wedding of the year, turns up rather dark. Jules Keegan, the perfect bride isn't as perfect as she seems. Olivia, Jules step sister, is hiding something that could ruin the wedding. Aoife, the wedding planner and owner of the island, always seems to hide in the shadows. Johnno, the best man, is haunted by the past. Finally, Hannah, the plus one, might be secretly jealous of the bride. All have secrets. All have motives. But only one is the murderer.
In my opinion, A Winter’s Promise is absolutely perfect. It follows Ophelia, a quiet girl with the ability to travel, at will, through mirrors and read an object’s history just by touching it. Ophelia lives quietly as the curator of a museum on an Ark, a fragmented piece of land, floating above the abyss. When Ophelia, against her will, is forced to marry a man from a distant and dangerous Ark, she must uproot her entire life and leave behind everything she has ever known.
After almost a full year of staying at the Hawthorne Estate, it turns out, almost nothing is what it seems. Toby, who hasn’t made an appearance in months, suddenly shows up. Eve does too, coming back into the picture and perhaps doing so intentionally as to pursue her goal. Main character Avery Grambs persists in solving Tobias Hawthorne’s puzzles, but her journey doesn’t end there. She finds that it all will come down to a chess game (and her wits).
In The Hawthorne Legacy, main character Avery Grambs continues to search for the answers within billionaire Tobias Hawthorne’s puzzles and mysteries embedded within the walls of the Hawthrone Estate. Her mother’s game of “secrets” continues to replay in her mind as she struggles to differentiate her manipulative illusions with reality, all while debating her love situation with the Hawthrone brothers.
Avery Grambs is an average 17-year-old girl from Connecticut. She finds out that she has inherited 46 billion dollars from Tobias Hawthorne, a very wealthy man. However, Tobias is a total stranger to Avery. With no record of being connected to this man at all, she becomes suspicious of whether or not this is real. There is one condition that comes along with the money-she is required to live in Tobias Hawthorne’s mansion along with his living family. Avery must adjust to her new situation while also trying to uncover the secrets that come along with it.
12-year-old Kyle Keeley loves it when he finds out that his absolute favorite genius game developer Luigi Lemoncello is opening a high-tech, over-the-top library in their town. Kyle is one of twelve kids invited to go to the grand opening. During the opening party, Mr. Lemoncello announces a contest in which the twelve kids are trapped inside the library. They will have to come up with a way to escape the library and receive the grand prize that will be awaiting them.
In the fictional town of Lost, Alaska there were two best friends named Kyra and Corey. When Corey has to move as Kyra is diagnosed with bipolar, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong in a town that does not accept her. When Corey gets the news that Kyra drowned in an icy lake, she is shattered. The book follows Corey’s journey of finding out what happened in Lost after she left, and why the town says her death was “meant to be”.
Nine Liars, Maureen Johnson’s newest entry in the Truly Devious series, is a weak companion to the books that came before it, yet still managed to retain some of the charm of its predecessors. The novel takes place between two time periods: one being the 1990s in England, following a group of nine friends in a rural house, and the other being a modern-day continuation of the lives of Stevie Bell and her friends.
The Smartest Kid in the Universe, Evil Genius is a riveting book about middle schooler Jake, who gained lots of intelligence through secret jellybeans. He was deemed the smartest kid in the universe, but what if the jellybeans wear off? After a new batch of smarty beans goes missing, Jake worries about not being the smartest anymore. Through a series of puzzles, his friends help him search for treasure to prove his theory wrong.
Bella Kirkwood is living the big life in NYC. She shops on her dad's credit card, goes to a school with great friends, and she has a good boyfriend. What more could she ask for? Then life takes a terrible turn. Bella is moving to Truman, Oklahoma, a city of farming, no fashion, and mean step brothers. Bella is having trouble settling into her new school when she joins the school newspaper. Bella’s editor, Luke, gives her some not so appealing articles, until her big break comes.
