Mira is on her way home for the holidays, when her flight gets canceled due to a raging blizzard. Wanting to get home, she accepts an offer from an acquaintance, Harper, whom she met on the plane ride. In the car with Harper and Harper’s friends, Mira begins to feel like the other passengers are hiding secrets. Harper and Brecken seem to know each other. Brecken has an unsettling intensity and a tendency to break the law. Kayla is sleeping nearly the whole time, or is she? Then, there is Josh, the only passenger who is as paranoid as she is, but he’s ready to throw anyone under the bus.
The Fort is a superb piece of literature that tells the tale of four boys (soon to be five) who, after Hurricane Leo, go to check on the condition of their makeshift hideout. However, one of the boys, Evan, is forced by his grandmother to bring along Ricky, the new kid, who no one is very happy to hang out with. Nonetheless, Ricky is the one who finds a new hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and so they are forced to keep hanging out with him.
Six People. One killer. Only five survive. In this thriller, a girl named Red goes on a senior trip with her friends - her best friend Maddy, Maddy’s brother Oliver, Oliver’s girlfriend Reyna, Arthur Moore, and Simon Yoo. It seems like the perfect summer until a course of events lead to the sudden break down of their RV. They soon realize that this is no accident, and that someone is out to get them. In this story, secrets are revealed with all kinds of twists and turns that leave one dead.
The Cousinsis a thriller fiction book written by Karen M. McManus, the author of One of Us is Lying. In her book, Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah are the three-Story cousins, but they lead completely different lives that are about to converge into one. Back in the day, their parents had lived on Gull Cove Island with their mother, which she owned.
Snow, a 17-year-old girl in Whittaker Psychiatric, falls in love with another patient in the hospital, Bale. They have their first kiss and something tragic happens, causing them to separate. Now, Bale has disappeared from the hospital and Snow is distraught. She too escapes with the help of a mystery man she finds in her dreams being pulled towards the magical kingdom, Algrid.
It’s New York City in the year of 2119 and, while there are many skyscrapers, the Tower dominates them all, offering over a thousand floors. Despite the shiny glamor of the city, Leda wants to put everything away into her past because of what happened in Dubai, but when a new investigation from the police department opens up old wounds, she’s forced to seek help from the person she’s been trying to forget the most. Rylin returns to her old life, away from the upper floor. But when she begins to see her old boyfriend again, she is once again torn between two worlds.
It’s New York City in the year of 2118, and a tower with a thousand floors stands tall. But there are horrors and secrets that must remain hidden. On the worst night of her life, Leda is taunted by terrible memories and knows that she must keep this secret hidden no matter the cost. Watt is desperate to keep a clean slate and put everything behind him, including hacking. But when Leda blackmails him to work for her again, Watt knows that he has to get rid of her- for good.
In the last installment of the Mirror Visitor series, Ophelia and her husband, Thorn, realize that their search for the Other was ultimately limited to the mirror. As they travel through different lands, obstacles, and riddles, they must confront their passion for each other, which they are forced to keep secret. Ophelia and Thorn must find the Other, whose power is slowly consuming other regions and lands and destroying civilizations, with the threat that their home could very well be next.
What makes Dragon's Keep work for me is its approach: a medieval fantasy written more like historical fantasy than high fantasy. Yet it has that sliver of magic and magical creatures (dragons, of course) to spice up the lyrical story. In other words, the author avoids over-doing the chosen one approach, and instead creates very believable characters in a believable world.
