Goodbye Perfect by Sara Barnard

When perfect student Bonnie goes missing no one least of all her best friend Eden, expects her to have fun off with Mr Cohn, her music teacher! She called him 'Jack', so Eden assumed he was their age despite her acting so secretive over it.

Growing up in care, Eden's life has been turbulent but with steady friend Bonnie vanishing she experiences anger, jealousy and despair over wanting her back, over her friends selfishness at how she's treating her caring family, something she never naturally had.

However, through all this, Carolyn her adoptive mum and her biological daughter Valerie, Get a bit closer to the family Eden has craved after for so long. As well as Connor her steady boyfriend helping in any way he can being supportive and devoted to helping her.

The only twist is all along since Bonnie ran off, Eden has been getting texts from her telling her about where they are and going to. But Eden can't cope and eventually the weight of knowledge gets too much...

Set over a dramatic week when taking GCSES plus a flash forward to August results day, we see how grooming works from the point of an outsider and not one of the couple involved.
It was a dramatic read but the ending didn't satisfy me completely as we don't find out what specifically he got charged with, how Bonnie is doing and how she coped in the time following the couple's split.

Overall, it was alike Anne Cassidy's books and it did keep me entranced to read on and on.

Love Me Not by M. J. Arlidge

Set in Southampton, nine months after being in prison, DI Helen Grace is back out there fighting crime. Emilia our junior crime reporter disgraced from previous actions, is looking to turn her career around.

Sonia is a polish mum and wife apprehended on her way to work as a probation officer by a couple on the road whom shoot her dead in the chest and leave her to be found by Helen.
She is the first victim of many within the twenty four hours.
Alan Samson was a  respected pharmaceutical for his family business for over thirty years then found brutally murdered whilst there's a woman and her baby trapped in his shop too.
He's the second victim of brutal murder, whilst the woman provides crucial information for DI Helen.

A story of two criminals, two lovers, who've faced too much wrong done to them to let things lie. They have hearts of stone with cold grudges towards the victims and towards each other...

A dramatic, thrilling, shocking story of how much love can get you so far but how much more hate can cause trouble and change lives forever.

Another fantastic installment to the series I've loved so far!

Thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!