Review: Confessions: The Private School Murders

Confessions: The Private School Murders
Author: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Publication Date: October 24th 2013

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



 Tandy Angel may have played the hero when she solved the case of her magnificently wealthy parents' mysterious deaths, but she isn't done yet. Her brother Matthew stands trial for homicide, young girls are found murdered all around New York's Upper West side, and Tandy is determined to use her piercing intellect to get to the bottom of both cases. But the biggest mystery of all may be what actually happened to James Rampling, the handsome son of a family enemy, whom Tandy fell in love and ran away with--though most of her memories of the affair are disturbingly absent...

The confessions keep coming as Tandy delves even deeper into her own tumultuous history and the skeletons in the Angel family closet.




Oh dear everything that's holy, my heart hurts. It freaking hurts.

Ugh, I don't know where to start.

The Private School Murders kicks off three months after Confessions of A Murder Suspect, Matthew's still in jail pending trial on a charge, the mystery of James Rampling is fracturing, and we get to know him and oh my fictional guy. This is the part where I could gush and fangirl, but you know what? James Rampling deserves more, so I'm saying I wish this guy was real. So damn real. Anyway, back to topic, where was I? Right...

Stacking the Shelves (#12) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

I have no voice. *croak* Lost it last night thanks to a lovely chest infection. But I don't care because this is the longest book haul I've gotten, and it includes a few I've picked for my Waiting on Wednesday's.

 

 

 

 

 (Thanks to HarperCollins, Edelweiss, Harlequin (UK) & Netgalley.)

Really, I requested most of them over a month ago, and I've just gotten auto-approved. So I got them. All. At. Once. So. Excited! I also now have a reading schedule.

I also bought one book this week, which I'll leave until next week, because I won't be reading it any time soon.

What did you get this week? :)

 

 

 

A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  In The After by Demitria Lunetta
• Teaser Tuesday from After Eden by Helen Douglas
• Waiting on Wednesday,  Premeditated by Josin L. McQuein   
• Thursday Cover Reveal of Booking Through Thursday: Best or Favourite
• Friday I reviewed Confessions of A Murder Suspect by James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro

 

This week I have read:

• After Eden by Helen Douglas
• Countdown by Michelle Rowen  
• Mind Games by Kiersten White

 

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?"