Welcome to Litsy!

A great young adult mystery!! It reminded me a lot of pretty little liars mixed with the skulls! Highly recommend!!

I went to start this book and this was an unexpected surprise!! Love it!

I loved loved loved loved this book!
5/5 ⭐️
Reminded me of the movie “The Skulls” mixed with gossip girl/pretty little liars. Come on... they call themselves the A‘s..? Lol
Great book to read if you‘re looking for a little thriller, but a YA version.

Charlie doesnt know what happened to her mother. Did she really disappear from her life? Did her father have something to do with her disappearance? Not only is she dealing with that but she has been invited into the secret elite society the "A's" which she has to complete difficult challenges to be a part of the society. Filled with mystery and secrets this book is told in alternating years and characters.

Only book good enough to keep my attention right now

Book 40: YA thrillers/mysteries usually don‘t do anything for me but I genuinely enjoyed this one!

5 stars Great mystery.

Finished book 3/16 on our walk and reached my step goal..bonus I still need to walk back. #BFC #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

My last walk of today. Made my step goal and finishing up book 3 #bookfitnesschallenge #BFC @wanderinglynn

4th day in a row I hit my step goal!! Now its my quiet time to read. #BFC #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

Out for our daily walk and this sign cracked me up Started tagged audio today #BFC #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

I liked this book enough to stay up way too late last night to finish it. This reminded me of The Secret History, both in content and pace - elite prep school, secret society, not a tightly wound suspense novel but one that slowly reveals itself. Also similar - this book is full of characters that are hard to really like, but who are interesting. I actually liked this better (gasp heard from the cult of Secret History!!) #catsoflitsy #lucy #elvis

This book is not a puck but I can see how some would enjoy the story. I found the story itself long and drawn out. The revelations were not really shocking. There was no real suspense either. I was not a fan of the audio either.

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3. Cats
4. Beach all the way!
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#summerthisorthat @Hestapleton

“Your whole life people will try to tell you who you are and what to believe about yourself. Don‘t let them”

I‘m a sucker for a good mystery and right from the get go this one did not disappoint. Is super intriguing with lots of suspense. 4★

#24b4monday
Time: 18hr19m
Next #popjargame draw — Death of a New American

Up next - I‘ve read some pretty great reviews surrounding this one.
Is a YA contemporary mystery/thriller with an elite boarding school setting, 17 year old mystery of a mother‘s disappearance. Reviewers say this is a cross between Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl and Cruel Intentions.
All sounds good to me!

#24b4monday #PopJarGame
Time: 10hr6m

Loving this #water cover, plus it‘s another book add for me in the #PopJarGame 👍🏻

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#kindledeal #ebookdeal This book sounds really interesting and I can‘t wait to dive into it! Plus any review that references Cruel Intentions and I‘m sold.

Has anyone read this book?

4/5 ⭐ (full review on my blog)

A beautiful story about families, love, betrayal, the difference between the rich and poor, and a girl that tries to discover what happened to her missing mother, while discovering herself.

https://amzn.to/2CO7793

#litsy #family #relationship #romance #thriller #mystery #suspense

I really liked this one. An interesting structure for a YA book, the point of view shifting from the teenage girl in present time to both her mom's and dad's' povs in the years leading up to her mom's mysterious disappearance. Good main and subplot, plenty of suspense!

Really enjoyed this book! Really appreciated that there was more to this book than a secret society. There was real depth and nuance to the characters, especially Charlie and Grace. I really liked how it delved into the past and Charlie realizes her family history. Also love #playaway devices! They‘re the best!

“No one can really understand the whole of a person. In many ways, the people I was closest to, the people who meant the most to me - were strangers. Beautiful strangers.” Family mysteries, secret society, college campus- I‘m here for all of those. #LitsyAtoZ #TheLetterA

DNF about 100 pages in. Synopsis looked good but I found myself making excuses not to read which is never a good sign.

Story was engaging enough to keep me reading, but not quite the page turner I expected.

The look of confusion and judgment I get for setting down my book for a minute. Even the cat is a bibliophile 🖤

This is a pretty long book, so just in time for a #hurricanereadingparty

A great read! I couldn't put it down.

The stories we tell can change the way we see one another, can even change the way we see the world.

Death doesn‘t make any sense when you‘re sixteen. Death doesn‘t make any sense when you‘re older either. It just becomes a familiar stranger,

“I‘ve wished for a long time that I could be a different type of person, but time and again, I‘ve fallen short, lost my way. Today, thanks to you, I finally got to prove to myself that I can be different.”

Being together for ten years was like listening to your favorite song too many times on the radio. You knew all the words but you‘d lost all the feelings the song used to give you—the things that made you love it in the first place.

“Never look behind. What‘s done is done. Be wise and look ahead.”

“It‘s not that early,” Leo said. “Anything before noon on Saturday is early,” I said.

I drank more than I should have until I felt a little bit brave, I laughed at things I didn‘t understand, and I smiled when I really wanted to cry. I was who I thought everyone around me wanted me to be,

“Your whole life, people will try to tell you who you are and what to believe about yourself. Don‘t let them.”

“Your whole life, people will try to tell you who you are and what to believe about yourself. Don‘t let them.”

Today‘s read is All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth It starts a little slow, but it picks up and sucks you right in!! Halfway through and it‘s time to go home! Better reading to come on my patio 📚💕

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.

A young woman haunted by a family tragedy is caught up in a dangerous web of lies and deception involving a secret society in this highly charged, addictive psychological thriller...

It‘s not what you look at—it‘s what you see. And when you‘ve been with someone long enough, you stop really seeing each other.

to me, a conscience was a whiny little bitch voice I liked to hit the mute button on.

“It‘s okay,” Greyson said. “Everything‘s going to be okay.” And his words comforted me, even though I knew they weren‘t true.

“Mr. Kensington,” Mr. Franklin said. “You look like you have the right answer.”
Al Kensington didn‘t look like he had the right answer at all. He looked like Mr. Franklin had just kicked his dog.

My favorite things to do are the things I can‘t tell my mother about,

I could picture her lounging on her dorm bed, picking at her fingernails. “Hopefully, practicing my two favorite deadly sins: gluttony and sloth,”

the only thing that mattered to the people who mattered was acting like nothing really mattered. As paradoxical as that was.

The simplistic plot line is tough, the teenage musings are tough, the twist is tough. This book is tough. When I say “tough,” I mean poorly written, predictable, and too easy. The prose wasn‘t notable, the narrative was inconsistent, and the twists were predictable and cheap. I‘ll save it for my niece though. A 9 year old might find this scandalous.

I always thought that what people saw when they looked at a photo said more about them than what was actually in the shot.

A fun and easy summer read with some twists I didn‘t expect and a bit of a YA tilt; not necessarily what I typically would go for, but the ‘boarding school in New England‘ plot line always draws me in! And A+ #coverlove

he had a habit of saying “literally” all the time, which literally drove me crazy.