Made for TV cont (againx4)

 Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs

Skip this book if you can't handle when kids are the victims in crimes.

I'm About to Hate Listen to This Series

 Hate by Tate James 

THIS IS NOT HOW TEENAGERS ACT!!! Madison Kate is a high school senior when the book starts and she is an 18 year old college freshman for the majority of the book. But she was written as someone in their early 20s. The title of this book is apt because this is about to be a hate listen for me. I did not enjoy this book. Steele is the only character that I like, and even then I barely like him. The only good things about this were the two narrators, they were spectacular.

Magic, War, and Family

 The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri 

The only thing I didn't like about this book was the constant POV changes. For the most part it stayed switching between the same few characters, but every now and then you would get a random character who died by the end of the chapter. And those random characters kept throwing me off. Priya is wonderful. I really liked the Regent, until the end; he seemed like he was genuinely trying to do the right thing. But then he refused to listen to his wife, because what does she know, and then he was surprised when she turned on him. Ashok never needed to be in charge of anything; he was entirely too hardheaded and reactionary. And while it was sad that he died, the correct person is leading them now. I like Malini and think she will be a good leader for her people, she was able to unite them easily since her older brother refused to. I cannot wait to read the next one!

Made For TV cont. (againx3)

 Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs 

This was fine. Not great but not bad. Brennan is supervising some students on a dig and they find new bones at a Native American burial ground. We get introduced to a new character, the coroner, Emma, who is obviously very sick when we meet her. I was right that it was cancer, but I was wrong about what kind. Anyway, they are checking out the site because a developer wants to build condos or something, but now that it's being classified as a burial ground he's pissed. Pete, the ex-husband shows up and ends up staying in the same house as her. Ryan shows up and sees him hugging her because she had a really bad day and he drives off without taking to her. When she finally catches up to him days later she isn't nice about it and he admits he overreacted and they are fine and he comes to stay with her. Ryan and Pete were the best part of this book. Then, Pete gets shot. Turns out, the reason that Pete was down there was to look into the finances of a church/cult and find a missing daughter if he can. Well, she used to work at a free clinic and she realized the doctor was spending more than he was making and she went looking into the doctor. He has been killing homeless people and drug addicts and engaging in a black market organ harvesting scheme with a former med school buddy, who does the transplants in Mexico. Ryan gets jealous again when Brennan is struggling because Pete was shot and he goes back to Canada on bad terms. This was pretty good as far as these books go. 

YA

 You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith 

This was a cute, fast paced, duel POV story. It takes place over the course of about one week. It is friends to antagonists to lovers. Adam and Whitney were best friends when they were kids, then his dad died and he fell apart (rightfully so) and pushed everyone away. Whitney gave up because she couldn't get through to him, and she made new friends, popular friends. Her dad got his big break with e-sports cafes while Adam and his mom are desperately trying to keep his dads pinball arcade alive. Her dad is horrible and only values her for what she can do for the business. Her brother and some of his friends end up destroying one of the pinball machines. Adam tweets about it. It goes viral. She responds and looks like the villain because she is in charge of the social media for all of the e-sports cafes. Also, her boyfriend breaks up with her. She and Adam keep running into each other around town. They finally talk and clear the air. There is a big snowstorm and they get snowed in at the pinball arcade, just the two of them. Then, without telling her, her dad sends out a tweet that there's going to be an announcement at the Old Town Winter Fest, and that announcement is that he's buying the arcade. Adam thinks she knew. She didn't. Her supposed friends have been ignoring her, and one even started dating her ex. She realizes they weren't really her friends and were just using her when her dad tells her he hired two of them as interns and that she is in charge of them. She fires them. Confronts her dad and he finally listens. Then she quits. She starts at a new school and joins a horticulture club. She and Adam made up. But there isn't really any clarity on what happens between them. The book either needed to be longer, or it needs a follow up. It was cute, but it felt unfinished.