Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G Thompson

Amy and Dee are cousins two years apart when they get taken from by their local river and are hidden away in a woods in a secluded cabin with their captor, Kyle.

Only years on, Amy is now back and finding her way home aged sixteen and now preferring to be called Chelsea, after that is what her captor called her for so many years.

Meanwhile, Lee, Dee's older sister and her mum push for answers about what happened to Dee whilst we see through Amy's flashbacks just what happened to her and what the pair endured while being captured and unable to be free.

I thoroughly loved this book and the creepy doll mystery around Kyle and why he took and what he did to the girls during their lost years. It built up the mystery and kept me hooked on discovering everything. One of the best YA mystery books!

A Thousand perfect Notes by C. G. Drews

Warning: This book contains scenes of violent domestic abuse.

Beck meets August at school and they become friends though Beck plays the piano, forced by his mother whom can no longer play and is now a bitter abusive woman towards her son. He also has a brother and sister too but Beck is the one pushed at only fifteen to become a famous pianist and not have the family name die from the world of piano playing.

Only as the abuse worsens and Beck feels more and more pushed into a fake life, a life he hates he tries to take charge only for it to end up with him in a worse state than ever before...

Overall, it was a good book. Personally for me if rammed home the domestic abuse point about his mother's obsession with having their family name live on in the world of music. Other than that, the story between August and Beck was a very sweet teen romance and totally believable, they seem a normal couple. Just like an abuse sufferer, Beck hates his life and says it often but shows that good things can come from bad situations when you least expect it like August showing up in his life.

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

An OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu

Bea suffers with severe OCD and this book is based around her falling in love with another OCD sufferer.

She has a lot of issues in terms of her OCD, she follows a famous male, Austin and his wife, Sylvia at she has the appointment after them at therapy with Dr Pat. She also has a phobia of driving fast and hitting someone and not realizing when really she's driving at thirty five miles an hour or less. She also feels unsafe around sharp objects as she feels she may accidentally harm someone.

At Dr Pat's group therapy sessions, she meets Beck. He becomes her boyfriend but suffers his own phobia's, counting and doing things in eights. He's a gym and cleaning addict as he feels he could've saved his eight year old sister that way by being stronger we later learn.

We see how complex and individual each case of OCD is and how it differs in form from person to person. I really liked the book although I felt the storyline could've been stronger around the stalking as I know I wouldn't enjoy being stalked yet Austin and Sylvia seem to more embrace it. Maybe it's because they're famous and are used to fans!