Well we are back again and I was not quite sure what to expect from you awesome people. But we have saved some books this time!! I know right!
We have a clear favourite and a runner up! Chuck them all was a distant 3rd! So it means that this week, I am keeping…
Two completely different books! Well what do I have for you today?
Will you save anything? Will my list get shorter? Or will I keep adding more?! Who knows!! But I have a favourite that I want to be saved this time!
Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride (Jason Crane, #1) by Richard Gleaves
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"May I present the Last Descendant of Ichabod Crane..."
JASON CRANE just turned seventeen years old.
He's a STAR WARS fan and a history geek. He doesn't believe in ghosts or the afterlife. He doesn't believe in psychic powers or tarot cards. He doesn't believe in the Headless Horseman.
But Sleepy Hollow will change all that. Because Jason Crane has a heritage to claim. Jason Crane has a Gift to discover. And Jason Crane has an old enemy who will RISE HEADLESS AND RIDE.
THE JASON CRANE SERIES re-invents and re-imagines classic American ghost literature. Sleepy Hollow, Salem ("The House of the Seven Gables" and the infamous witch trials), and haunted Washington D.C. and Baltimore ("The Fall of the House of Usher" and other works of Edgar Allen Poe.)
The series is set in and among the real-life sights and Halloween events of the modern-day locations. Perfect for planning Halloween tourism! Every place mentioned in Book #1 exists for you to explore: Gory Brook Road, the Tarrytown Lighthouse, the ruin of the Horseman Bridge, the grave of Washington Irving, Patriot's Park, Philipsburg Manor and the haunted Burying Ground of the Old Dutch Church.This eBook edition includes an online MAP of the sights mentioned in the story so that you can follow along or plan a trip. Step into the REAL village of Sleepy Hollow and the world of Jason Crane.
Flesh Worn Stone (The Game #1) by John A. Burks Jr.
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Steven Alexander has what he considers the perfect life. With a good job, a loving wife, and happy and healthy sons, he has little to complain about. In a flash that life is ripped away and he is thrust into a world of violence and slavery beginning with a brutal home invasion. His sons are murdered in front of him and he and his wife Rebecca are then kidnapped, drugged, and taken to an uncharted tropical island where they awake on a pristine beach in the company of five strangers.
The island is a playground of horror and the kidnapped are forced to participate in the Game, a modern-day rendition of the Coliseum of ancient Rome, where they must compete in acts of murder, rape, and self-mutilation for the amusement of an unseen wealthy elite. Contestants must survive the Game five times to earn their freedom from the island. Losers become the evening meal.
Steven struggles to survive in a world where violence is not only accepted but cheered. He fights to hold on to his wife in a community where cannibalism is survival, brutality is affection, and living another day is at the expense of his own soul. Survival comes with a price, however, and he soon learns that not all of the players are there unwillingly and they’ve paid a steep price for the opportunity.
The Forgotten Girls (Suburban Murder, #1) by Alexa Steele
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In an elite suburb of New York City, girls are dying. That doesn’t happen in Greenvale, with its immaculate lawns, exclusive yacht clubs and multi-million dollar mansions. But behind its perfect façade, its trimmed hedges and luxury cars, a darkness lies. Girls, dependent on Adderall, outmaneuver each other to get into top colleges, while the mothers’ need to live vicariously only makes it worse.
Bella DeFranco is one of the Bronx’s top SVU detectives. At only 37, she disarms everyone with her stunning good looks, yet she is as tough as most men—and a lot smarter, too. Yet when is summoned to Greenvale, she finds herself getting lost in a case that even she can’t comprehend. She stumbles into a land of secrets, a place where husbands hide their pasts from their wives, where friends are not what they seem, and where no one wants to know too much. As she digs deeper into layers of suburban dysfunction, she comes to learn that, behind all the fake smiles, there is a subtle violence--rivaling even her crime-ridden streets of the Bronx.
With a killer on the loose, time running out, and a new partner who never recovered from his washed-up alcoholic days, the odds are stacked against Bella. She is determined, though, to save these girls, whatever the cost. Yet as she gets close, the depth of psychosis she discovers shocks even her….
Streetlights Like Fireworks (Streetlights Like Fireworks #1) by David Pandolfe
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Psychic flashes, haunting visions, missing persons and visits from ghosts. That's just their first date.
Jack has been getting on his parents' nerves for some time. Bad enough he's a rock musician, has crappy grades and hangs out with his "loser" friends. But Jack's ability to predict the future-well, that just annoys the hell out of them.
Jack's classmate, Lauren, is said to have unique abilities too. The town still talks about when she kept badgering her mother about the money in their wall. For the longest time, Lauren's mother didn't listen. Finally, she did and Lauren's mother hasn't had to work since.
Jack would really like to connect with Lauren but can't figure out how. She's never looked at him twice.
But when he experiences a mystifying event involving visions, voices and spectral visits, Jack figures there's only one person to help him understand who's calling out to him and why.
Before long, Jack and Lauren are off on a road trip of discovery that could provide answers to a mystery left unsolved for twenty years. More importantly, they might even unravel the greatest mystery of all- how every so often someone will accept you for who you are.
The Scarecrow (Solom #1) by Scott Nicholson
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SOLOM: THE SCARECROWBook#1 in the Solom series.
When Katy Logan moves her troubled teen daughter Jett to the Appalachian community of Solom, she envisions a peaceful rural lifestyle on her new husband's farm.
But there's more to Solom than she ever imagined.
Gordon Smith's first wife Rebecca died under mysterious circumstances, and Katy believes her spirit is still in the house. Gordon's great-grandfather was a horseback preacher who vanished while on a mission one wintry night, and local lore holds that he returns from time to time seeking vengeance. And Gordon teases Katy and Jett with a story about a wicked scarecrow that comes in from the fields at night to slake an unnatural thirst.
When the legends come to life, Katy and Jett discover the Smith family secrets cut deep. And they must face the supernatural menace together or become part of Solom's legends forever.
The Experiment of Dreams by Brandon Zenner
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A shocking thriller: Benjamin Walker has taken a new and lucrative job working on a project named Lucy, a machine capable of recording a person's dreams in intimate detail.
After years of testing experimental medicines and participating in repetitive sleep-related studies, all is finally going well for Ben ... until strange dreams begin to plague him and memories once hidden begin to reveal themselves.
The doctors and staff onboard project Lucy are not who Ben thinks they are, and the organization will stop at nothing to keep his emerging memories buried for good.
Ben is put on a collision course that will bring him to the brink of total insanity, and perhaps even death.
At the heart of it all, Ben's worst enemy is his own mind, and he must confront his past in order to save his future.
Remember 2 may or may not stay, how do you choose?
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Until next time xxx
Davida Chazan says
Although I might have voted for The Forgotten Girls, I can’t see any of these books being sustainable for a whole series – they all sound like they’ll have good first books and the next ones will just get boring.
Zoé says
I reckon you are right but I kinda hope you are wrong LOL however I don’t think anything will be saved
Davida Chazan says
We are trying to mold your reading to our tastes – not sure we’re succeeding, which is probably a good thing. You gotta do you!
Zoé says
?? you are trying ! I love that!
Kelly says
Do you really need another series in your life? You don’t! So I guess I saved you. You’re welcome ?
No but seriously, I haven’t read any of these, and although some sound interesting, none jump out. So… chuck ‘m!
Zoé says
No I probably don’t but there is one I really want saved! LOL but thank you ? you are doing me a favour ??
Kelly says
Which did you want us to save?
Zoé says
The Sleepy Hollow series ?
Kelly says
I had a look at the results so far and yeah no I don’t think that’s happening ??
Zoé says
I’ve not looked yet….I’m guessing chuck them all is a clear winner ?
noveldeelights says
Go bye bye, obscure books!
Zoé says
??? I wonder what you chose ??
nickimags @ The Secret Library Book Blog says
It’s definitely another chuck the lot week! ? Really glad to see the two I voted for last week got saved! ?
Zoé says
Oh that’s good! There is one I wanted saving but don’t think it will ??♀️
Karen says
Glad to see my choice was saved from last week. I haven’t heard of any of these so I say goodbye to all ?
Zoé says
? this is a fan favourite today!
Sarah Hardy says
Voted for The Forgotten Girls as it’s the only one I’ve read. I enjoyed it but got a feeling the chuck the lot will win this week.. x
Zoé says
From all the comments I have a feeling that is going to be case ? x
nsfordwriter says
Get rid of them all 😀
Zoé says
??
Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote says
Ohhhh I absolutelly adored Jekyll and Hyde! I’m glad to see it being kept. Hope you get to clear out a bunch more again, Zoé! 😛