Instead of Maggie's summer being filled with fun it's been filled with pain. Maggie remembers hanging out at the gorge with her best friends, she remembers climbing the trail with her perfect boyfriend, but she doesn't remember what happened when they were supposed to dive off the cliff together. What happened that left her scared up on the top of that cliff and Joey dead in the water down below? Maggie's memories return to her in pieces over time and finally she uncovers the ugly truth. Even though things were predictable from early on, the fantastic writing made the book fun and easy to plow through. The characters, their situations - it all came to life and made you feel as though you were there with them. I really enjoyed it!

Tara Logan lives with her husband and two children on a quiet cul-de-sac. Things are going fairly well. Until she wakes up one morning to discover she's laying next to her neighbour in his bed with no memory of how she got there. And also, he's been stabbed to death. Tara is convinced she didn't kill him and she decides to keep quiet about the whole thing. But she soon realizes that someone in her life knows what happened that night. I've read one other book by this author and did not enjoy it. I had my doubts I'd enjoy this one but the blurb just sounded too damn good not to give it a try. For more than half of this book my main thought was "how can the author take something that sounds so good and make it so dull?" The last little bit of the book was good, full of action and the truth coming out, but I suffered to get to it. Overall it wasn't that bad, but I'm not sure I'd pick up another book by this author, she's just not for me.

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. The house is long gone but he finds himself drawn to the old farmhouse at the end of the road where his childhood friend lived. Lettie Hempstock wasn't an ordinary little girl and her mother and grandmother weren't ordinary women. He hasn't thought of Lettie in many, many years but as he sits by the pond, the pond Lettie claimed was an ocean, he's taken back to the past. A past so strange it's hard to believe. I don't honestly know what to say. It took me a while to get into but even so it's still a great book from start to finish. It's creative and magical and weird and real.

Beneath the city of Paris, France, are The Catacombs - a labyrinth of crumbling tunnels filled with six million dead. A video camera that contains mysterious footage has been left behind and found by a friend of a friend. Danièle is showing the footage her friend Pascal has found to her new friend Will. She wants him to join a small group of friends exploring the Catacombs. They're going to the place where the video camera was found in hopes of finding the woman who dropped it. Will is adamant he doesn't want to go. But he changes his mind at the last minute and it could cost him his life. This one seemed almost boring. I don't know if it was because of the setting, underground and dark, that it gave off that vibe. They walk and walk through the tunnels and then towards the end everything happens, and it's a bit far-fetched. And there were lots of mistakes - the ones that stick out the most, for me, are the girls who balled their eyes out - kinda funny, kinda sad for an

A ten-thousand-year-old egg sac has been found at the Nazca Lines and is sent to a laboratory in Washington, D.C. where it hatches and an ancient species of killer spiders emerge. Now the black, skittering mass is causing global pandemonium. This book is told from multiple perspectives - people from all over the world where these giant, man-eating spiders are out of control. It quickly became boring reading about these people. I wanted the main characters to be the spiders but they play a minor role compared to these peoples' lives and how they're preparing for and dealing with the spiders. It was disappointing.

Morgan and Ali are fraternal twins. Morgan thinks her life would be better without Ali. Now Ali is moving across the country with her husband to open up her dream restaurant. Morgan's jealousy and resentment will inadvertently create a chain of events that will cause things to get a lot worse before they get better.  The blurb sounded good, but this book was not. The characters are beyond unlikable. Morgan is so childish and petty - throwing temper tantrums just to hurt someone then wonders why no one likes her. Both Morgan and Ali are always wondering what secrets the other is hiding and they KNOW they're hiding secrets because of the way they blinked their eyes or whatever. The writing itself was not that good - it seemed amateurish to me. The story had no real depth. I was tired of hearing the same old things over and over and over. The ending is what caused it to drop from a two star book to a one star book - just awful.

A group of friends are planning to hike Mt. Fuji but their plans are cancelled due to impending rain. They then meet an Israeli couple who were also planning to hike Mt. Fuji but are now going to go camp in Aokigahara Jukai (also known as The Suicide Forest) instead. The group of friends tag along with the Israeli couple to see if the place is really haunted. They move past the signs urging people to think of their loved ones and not to continue into the forest but their curiosity is piqued. The forest is so dense it's easy to become lost. And by morning one of them will go missing. This was well-written. It had the right amount of spookiness. The characters were three-dimensional. I enjoyed the snippets about their lives before they got caught up in the horrors of The Suicide Forest. It was easy to feel like you were there in the forest with them. I'm looking forward to book number two in World's Scariest Places!

Kristine Rush and her fiancé, Daniel, are on their way from Las Vegas to Lake Arrowhead, California for the Fourth of July. Kristine isn't looking forward to spending time with Daniel's mother, but that's the least of her worries when Daniel is abducted from a desolate rest stop. Now Kristine must choose: return home safe and sound without Daniel or take orders from a killer that will send her on a trip through hell to find him. This book was intense! The stellar writing and the amount of suspense made this book grip me from page one and didn't let me go until the very last page. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Just when I thought I had it all figured out, the author would surprise me. Kristine's situation was palpable (and definitely not enjoyable) I loved the setting. I loved Kristine's relationship with her daughter. And I loved this book!

DCI Erika Foster is searching a quarry that is no longer used. She's looking for a huge amount of heroin packed into a waterproof container. Not only does she find it, she also finds the skeleton of a young child. The remains are quickly identified as seven-year-old Jessica Collins. A little girl who went missing twenty-six years ago on her way to a birthday party. Erika soon realizes this is going to be one of the hardest cases she's ever taken on. She has to dig through old evidence, piece it together with new evidence and find out all she can from the first detective on the case, Amanda Baker. But there's someone out there who doesn't want anyone finding out what happened to Jessica Collins and they'll stop at nothing to keep anyone who gets close to the truth silent. This is the third book in the DCI Erika Foster series. I found most of it slow compared to the other two, but it really picked up towards the end. I did not like what little romance was in the book.

I wanted to try something different and this sounded good. But it's not. It's painful to read. I don't understand the lingo, I can't keep track of who's who. I'm not interested so I'm not remembering anything. I hate not finishing a book but I can't read any more of this. DNF @ 19%.