Review: SWALLOW LANE by Marie Snow

 

A mother and her adult son move to a new house on Liars Island. The mother was hoping for a fresh start what with her son being released from a mental hospital after the murder of his girlfriend. The son was so confused at the scene of the crime that there was a question as to whether or not he could’ve killed her. But Matthew couldn’t have inherited that killer gene from his murdering father. Could he? Then Jenny comes along. Was this girl a new obsession for Matthew? Was the past repeating again?

 

This read seemed kind of long and emotionally driven for the most part. I just knew something was off about the son-obsessed mother that never wanted to let her child go. An interesting read.

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: ROAD TRIP RISK AND REVENGE by Cindy Bell

 

The girls were on an RV road trip and there was a skydiving planned for it. But before Suzie could strap on a parachute, the girls find the skydiving instructor dead. Was it a skydiving accident? Now Suzie and Mary were in a new town trying to solve a murder. There was something odd about the town, which seemed awfully protective of its chief. Was there corruption on the police force? A good mystery!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: GOOSEBUMPS MOST WANTED: FRANKENSTEIN’S DOG by R.L. Stine

 

Uncle Frankenstein was deemed “the monster maker” in the village just his great grandfather before him. But Kat knew those rumors weren’t true. Then she notices weird changes in her uncle. What was he hiding in his lab? Perhaps her uncle really was a mad scientist after all. A good read!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: A NIGHTMARE ON CLOWN STREET by R.L. Stine

 

It all started with sneaking into the circus, where the kids meet Tiny the Clown who had a warning: “Stay away from Clown Street.” Then Ray visits his Uncle Theo A.K.A. Murder the Clown. What was this Clown Street? And what was with the weird clowns at Theo’s? There certainly were a lot of clowns to keep track of here. Such weird clown names. Someone was “clowning” around with all the pranks, but who?

 

This started off pretty slow for me. About halfway through is when things get a little more interesting when Ray finds out that his uncle was sent to Clown Street. This was a much longer read than it should’ve been, but it was still pretty good. The best part was trying to get to Clown Street to free the uncle. A fairly nice read.

 

Rating: 3 stars

Spotlight: THE WITCHES OF VEGAS by Mark Rosendorf

Where can Witches and their vampire mentor practice their powers without being discovered or persecuted?

By using their magic, the Witches of Vegas become the number one act performing on the Las Vegas Strip—a great achievement for them, but not so much for the magicians—who can't possibly keep pace.

Isis Rivera is the adopted fifteen-year old daughter of The Witches of Vegas. Zack Galloway is the teenage nephew and assistant to the last magician left in the city. Although they should be rivals, when Valeria, a four-hundred-year-old witch with a long-seeded grudge against humanity arrives in Sin-City, both teens act to bring their families together to stop the evil hag in her tracks.

But can the combined witches' powers and the ingenuity of the magicians be enough to stop Valeria from taking over the city and possibly the world?

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