I’m fine with murder mysteries it’s sexual violence that makes me uncomfortable. Young adult thrillers and mysteries are my favourite because they manage to be exciting – and thrilling – but without the so much of the intensity, and often violence, of adult thrillers. If you’ve been around my feed for any length of time at all, you’ll know that I love a YA thriller. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent–and La Cachette’s dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart. Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou – a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town’s bloody history – Grey realizes that La Cachette’s past is far more present and dangerous than she’d ever understood.

But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something – her grandmother Honey her childhood crush Hart and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave. Grey can’t believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World–and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey’s best friend, disappeared six months earlier. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. Earlier this month, I shared my spot on the blog tour for this brilliant book, where I interviewed the author, which you can read here. Today I’m sharing with you my review of Dark and Shallow Lies, a YA thriller with a magical twist, set in a town full of psychics. Hello hello and welcome or welcome back to my little bookish corner of the internet.

Dark and shallow lies review