Review: Confessions of A Murder Suspect

Confessions of A Murder Suspect
Author: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Publication Date: September 27th 2012

~A copy was provided by Arrow (Young) in exchange for an honest review.~

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things:

1. She was one of the last people to see her parents alive.

2. She and her brothers are the only suspects.

3. She can't trust anyone - maybe not even herself.

Having grown up under their parents' intense perfectionist demands, none of the Angel children have come away undamaged.

Tandy decides that she will have to solve the crime on her own, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous game. As she uncovers haunting secrets and slowly begins to remember flashes of disturbing past events buried in her memory, Tandy is forced to ask: What is the Angel family truly capable of?

The Angel household is about to be changed, for the worse or better, you pick. Matthew (the oldest) Tandoori "Tandy", her twin Harry, and Hugo (The youngest) are woken up to police threatening to break down their door, and find out that their parents are dead. Not only have their parents been murdered, but there was no break-in, nothing unlocked or out of normal, no sign of a struggle, and they are the main suspects.

Even our Narrator, Tandy, thinks it could be one of them, even herself, thanks to her little black-out tendency and holes in her memory. She even thinks it could be her twin. With little evidence of outside foul play, all evidence points to them, and since she's the most methodical and emotionless one, all fingers point to her. But being all of those things also make her the sharpest and intelligent of them.

Booking Through Thursday: Best or Favourite?

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme, hosted by btt2, about (mostly) books and reading.

Are “best” and “favourite” the same thing? If someone asked you “What’s the best book you ever read?” would the answer be the same as for “What’s your favourite?”

I'd like to say yes, because that would be easier. Haha, but no, I don't think they are, so bear with me. Saying best and favourite are the same is pretty much the equivalent  of saying, say, all cheeses are the same. They're not. Different flavour, different texture, etc, etc.. "Best" books could mean anything, you know? Best one you've read all year, or month, or in a while, or in it's genre or even one that really surprised you. It doesn't necessarily mean it's the best book ever, or your favourite. Favourite books don't come easily, favourites are the ones that stick around forever, that stay in your head for ages after reading, and maybe ones you have to read regularly. Favourites also doesn't mean that they're the best book in existence, sometimes their the ones you struggled through, or made you feel something.

It's hard to pick the best book I've ever read because I've read so many, so I'm saying this year. And the best one I've read this year was All Our Yesterdays.

My favourite? I'm sticking with this year, too, and besides I can't just pick one Harry Potter, or Vampire Academy so I'm sticking with the solo's. The Fault in Our Stars.

So no,  my "best" and "favourite" are not the same, and in context are totally different.

Waiting On Wednesday (#12)

"Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases.

 

 

 Premeditated by Josin L. McQuein 

Expected publication: October 8th 2013 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers 

 

 

 

 A week ago, Dinah’s cousin Claire cut her wrists.

Five days ago, Dinah found Claire’s diary and discovered why.

Three days ago, Dinah stopped crying and came up with a plan.

Two days ago, she ditched her piercings and bleached the black dye from her hair.

Yesterday, knee socks and uniform plaid became a predator’s camouflage.

Today, she’ll find the boy who broke Claire.

By tomorrow, he’ll wish he were dead.

 

Reasons...

1) Have you seen that cover?

2) Have you read the above?

 

Today, she’ll find the boy who broke Claire.

By tomorrow, he’ll wish he were dead.

 

Also, there's that.

 

What are you waiting on? :)

 

 

 

 

Teaser Tuesday (11)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

 

 

Title: After Eden

Author: Helen Douglas

Release date:  November 7th 2013 (UK)             

Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens  

Place: 14% in Kindle.

 

 

Eden Anfield loves puzzles, so when mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school she's hooked. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So why doesn't he recognise pizza? And how come he hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden the most, however, is the interest he's taking in her.

As Eden starts to fall in love with Ryan, she begins to unravel his secret. Her breakthrough comes one rainy afternoon when she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written over fifty years in the future. Confronting Ryan, she discovers that he is there with one unbelievably important purpose ... and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"He hasn't been drinking," I said,

"I saw him with a bottle of beer."

"He hasn't taken a single sip." I pointed to the full bottle of beer, still standing in the sand.

Connor snorted. "How do you know that's the same bottle?"

Review: In The After

In The After
Author: Demitria Lunetta

Publication Date: June 25th 2013      

Publisher: Harper Teen

 

 

They hear the most silent of footsteps.
They are faster than anything you've ever seen.
And They won't stop chasing you...until you are dead.

Amy is watching TV when it happens, when the world is attacked by Them. These vile creatures are rapidly devouring mankind. Most of the population is overtaken, but Amy manages to escape—and even rescue “Baby,” a toddler left behind in the chaos. Marooned in Amy’s house, the girls do everything they can to survive—and avoid Them at all costs.

After years of hiding, they are miraculously rescued and taken to New Hope, a colony of survivors living in a former government research compound. While at first the colony seems like a dream with plenty of food, safety, and shelter, New Hope slowly reveals that it is far from ideal. And Amy soon realizes that unless things change, she’ll lose Baby—and much more.

 

 

 

The world as you know it has ended. For Amy, she was watching television when it happened, when the world was invaded by aliens and ended her life as she knew it. Her father was assumed dead, and her mother was protected, but still unsure whether she was alive. Amy was left alone, but after a few days she stopped wallowing and stepped up. She adapted. She lived.

She survived.

Day in, day out, a day at a time but she's here, she's still alive.

She doesn't know who else is still alive, and for all she knows, she's the last human on earth.

Slowly, she starts seeing more and more survivors and meets Baby, a toddler in the supermarket and takes her under her wing.

They start living.

Stacking the Shelves (#11) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

 

Shhh, type softly, I have a concert hangover. I'm going back to images of the books this week as everything hurts. Haha.

 

 

For Review(Invite)

 

After Eden by Helen Douglas

 

Bought

 

Look what I finally got my hands on! It took a while, since my first copy must have gotten lost in the mail, and the Book Depository had to send another one out. I haven't had a problem with any order from them before, but they were nice and sorted it really quickly.

 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

 

 

What did you get this week? :)

 

 

A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
• Teaser Tuesday from Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
• Waiting on Wednesday,  This Wicked Game by Michelle Zink
• Thursday Cover Reveal of The Rising by Terra Harmony
• Friday I reviewed Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke

 

This week I have read:

• Confessions: The Private School Murders by James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro
• Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
• The Rules by Stacey Kade