Make Up Reading

  5 out of 5 stars Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins Publishers for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. This novel really surprised me. I thought I would enjoy it but I did not think it would move me the way that it did. Sixteen year old Jodie Wolfe's life has not been easy. She has grown up with an alcoholic mother  who much like Jodie's peers makes fun of her facial deformities. When Jodie accuses four teenage boys from hard working Muslim immigrant families of rape things begin to turn from bad to worse for her. When Zara Kaleel, former barrister turned rape counsellor is assigned to help Jodie things become extremely hard for her. As a Muslim she is accused of being a traitor and much more. This is a heavy book but definitely one worth reading.

 5 out of 5 Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.. Last year I was lucky enough to be able to read the ARC of Trace of Evil, the first novel in the Natalie Lockhart series. It was in my top five books that I read last year. I fell in love with Natalie and Luke and the town of Burning Lake.  The Wicked Hour was not a disappointment at all. I really enjoyed the actual mystery. There seemed to be enough suspects to keep me guessing until the end. Natalie grieving not only the loss of her sister Grace but also the loss of a friendship and the potential love of her life.  Her grieving feels real to me.  I think the only thing in this book that felt a little off to me is the moments in the book when Natalie thinks of her Mother. In the first book we know that Natalie and her sister Grace were basically unwanted. That her mother wanted one child and Willow(the eldest sister) was...