The Prison Doctor by Dr Amanda Brown

Amanda Brown was a regular loved GP in her area until a change at the practice led her to a job in a youth prison for boys aged 15-18 firstly which taught her a lot.

From diabetic patients, severe suicide attempts, young men who grew up in care and feeling lonely without a mother's love and also winning round the prison governor too Amanda has had to prove her worth as a doctor which is obvious she did her job extremely well and was a genuinely caring and interested person in all their lives, making them mostly feel at ease and show their more human side of emotions not a hard prison face all the time.

Amanda describes her life working most recently in a women's prison too where a lot of her patients have been subject to abuse, rape, violence at home etc feeling safer in prison though some have become addicted to drugs making it harder for them to get control of their lives completely. In a really open look into life working in many prisons it gave us an exclusive look into what working in that environment must be like.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

OCDaniel by Wesley King

Daniel suffers from OCD and has to perform certain tasks and rituals before bed and during the day all the time which take over his mind, especially number based tasks.

Raya is the girl Daniel likes but feels he can't get until he gets paired with her on a school project with his friend Max, but as he gets to know her he also gets to know why and quiet Sara whom he finds himself helping as she investigates her mum and her mum's boyfriend murdering her father...

It was an involved and intriguing plot nothing like I expected as a lot of the time to me the OCD became a back pedal storyline and the investigation seemed to take over more in all. However it was a good book and Daniel certainly struggles with OCD just not as much as I expected is it raised.

See How They Lie by Sue Wallman

Mae and Drew are best friends turning sixteen, both have parents who work within the Hummingbird creek mental health facility where they may have use of facilities, but are still treated as patients abiding by strict rules. Drew's dad may be a caterer there but Mae's dad is a doctor and owner of the facility, controlling meds, care and everyone pretty much there away from the outside world.

However more deadly secrets exist as Mae finds out. Her parents lied about their pasts, including family within which her Grandma just died.

As her dad fires staff and gets rid of drew her best friend as a 'bad influence' a new patient arrives in the form of Noah a British patient who falls for her and her alike him. The two together work on figuring out the mystery behind the hidden family photos Mae has found as well as why everyone has to take a specific drug 'HB' unnecessarily deemed as vitamins which it isn't as more patients become unwell, develop aches and pains the race to escape the facility becomes real as the man supposedly her dad becomes a real monster with a lot to hide.

A gripping mystery with a medical edge for teens who like a crime novel with love, drama and a nice dose of betrayal thrown in the mix too. It kept me hooked and I really enjoyed it!