Reviews by Category: Mystery

Teen Review
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Hawthorne Legacy

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Shreya A.
Mar 1, 2022

The Hawthorne Legacy is an interesting and suspenseful mystery novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This book is about a girl named Avery and she inherits billions of dollars from the late Tobias Hawthorne. The story takes off where the first book left off, The Inheritance Games, where Avery and the four Hawthorne brothers found a secret passageway that led to a box with letters for all of them.

Teen Review
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Inheritance Games

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Grace K.
Mar 1, 2022

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is about a girl, Avery Grambs, who inherits the majority of one of the richest men in Texas’s assets, Tobias Hawthrone. The catch: she has no idea who Mr. Hawthorne was, and this sparks her journey to find out how she is connected to him. One requirement for Avery in his will is to live with his existing family which includes his four teenage grandsons, and this turns her life upside down.

Teen Review
The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky

The Mary Shelley Club

By Goldy Moldavsky
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Tyler H.
Feb 18, 2022

The new girl Rachel is ready for a new beginning at Manchester Prep. But after a misconception with the popular girl in which she is blamed for a prank, she finds herself outcasted. Knowing full well she isn’t the one who orchestrated the prank she hunts down the guy she saw and stumbles upon a group of kids with a love for horror and an equal love for scaring others. Before she knows it, she finds herself wrapped up in tricks meant to terrify the popular kids. Eventually though, the pranks get too intense, and they stop going as planned.

Teen Review
These Deadly Games by Diana Urban

These Deadly Games

By Diana Urban
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Tyler H.
Feb 18, 2022

Crystal Donovan is a teen girl who finds herself drawn into a dangerous game with her sister as the price for failure. She’s forced to complete seemingly random tasks and is told her sister will die if she doesn’t. At first it seems random, until she realizes each task is meant to kill one of her friends. In the midst of the chaos this twisted scheme is causing she fights to figure out if this is all over a game tournament, or something deeper from her past.

Teen Review
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Naturals

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 18, 2022

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is a mystery book filled with twists and suspense. Cassie just knows people. Ever since she was young, she could make scarily accurate assumptions about people. One day while she was working, a young man walked in and she couldn’t figure him out no matter how long she stared. When he left, he left a business card from the FBI. She didn’t know it at the time, but that one call would throw her whole life upside down.

Teen Review
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Inheritance Games

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Shreya A.
Feb 3, 2022

The Inheritance Games is an exotic and thrilling mystery novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This book is about an ordinary girl named Avery, she gets invited to the will reading of the late Tobias Hawthorne, the 9th richest man on Earth. There she finds that she inherits billions of dollars. Avery and the four grandsons of Tobias Hawthorne solve riddles and puzzles to figure out why Tobias Hawthorne left his money to Avery.

Teen Review
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Kendal A.
Jan 31, 2022

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson is a realistic fiction book about Pippa Fitz-Amobi, a young girl writing her senior project. She decides to write her project about a local murder that took place 5 years ago, using her senior project as an excuse to do her own investigation. Her goal is to prove the innocence of Sal, the alleged killer who was also found dead, and find out who really killed Andie, Sal’s girlfriend.

Teen Review
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

Out of the Easy

By Ruta Sepetys
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Jillian K.
Jan 19, 2022

Set in the 1950’s, Josie lives in New Orleans above a bookshop. What sets her apart from regular girls is that her mother works as a prostitute, and Josie cleans the house her mother works from. However, this is not the life that Josie wants for herself. She wishes to go to college and have a happier future than she would if she stayed in New Orleans. Unfortunately, this all changes when a wealthy man is murdered and Josie’s mother is involved with the case.

Teen Review
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Silent Patient

By Alex Michaelides
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jan 10, 2022

In The Silent Patient, a well named painter named Alicia murdered her husband six years ago. However, she does not speak a word about the murder. Her therapist, Theo, wanted to understand the real reason why Alicia murdered her husband. But can he ever understand Alicia's ways?

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