99 Days by Katie Cotugno

As Molly returns back to her hometown, takes up her old job again and crosses paths with old friends whom are now new enemies in some cases, gets entangled with Patrick and Gabe Donnelly once again, life is proving to be tricky and pressuring her to make a decision before its too late.

There's also the fact that everywhere she goes, still people call her a slut and give her the side eye. Slowly Molly does make friends and also peace with her past decisions and actions.
We see how her adoptive mum exposed her secrets about cheating on her boyfriend in her latest book. Which unfortunately for Molly, exposed it all to her friends and the town people.

This book reminds me of Abbi Glines The Vincent Brothers books and I enjoyed them although this book is more suitable to younger readers compared to them.

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus

Four students and one teacher, Simon,Nate, Addy, Bronwyn and Mr. Avery are in a detention, when two cars crash into each other.

They were chosen for that detention due to phones going off in their backpacks which weren't theirs.

Whilst Mr Avery goes to check on the events outside, the students on detention are talking when Simon drinks water he says tastes weird. Then he's on the floor, having an allergic reaction.
But all the medication in the college and on Simon, was gone.
An hour after he started reacting, he was dead.

Then police and councillors get involved and each character undergoes investigation as the truth as to how Simon died comes out as peanut traces in the water and cup he drank from.

The story is obviously not one that's simple, it's a mystery after all. I'm using no spoilers so I'm summing this one up on my thoughts throughout reading it. It uses Tumblr as the outlet of the murderer's voice in their messages and through them we find out they were in the room when he died which makes the book more gripping. It was a little slow in parts, but I'm impatient at finding out more details too so it worked both ways there. We definitely learn more about the suspects characters as we go on and how Simon wasn't liked by a lot of people for the things he did as he ran an app which revealed a lot of secrets people had hidden and could, would and have destroyed relationships. The last part of the book really changes the normal idea back around and then more comes to light around the death of Simon, I certainly didn't predict this one!

The book app messages are written in a style alike Gossip Girl whilst the secrets and lies remind me of Pretty Little Liars.

This book was kindly sent to me by the publishers for review!

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

Set within a Christian camp get together, Lori and Aki set each other the task of having a summer fling.

However, love is never easy and Christian Aki has a big secret to hide about her sexuality, she's bisexual and out to no one. Yet when she meets Christa, her world changes into secret get together and sneaking around, even though a photo circulates briefly of her and Christa and the pressures of keeping their connection secret threatens to be exposed.

Aki and Lori also have a difference of views and do fall out once but make it up after Lori admits what she did was wrong about her and a camp councillor, who's married too and shows the friendship bond in all it's strength and glory.

We learn how much issues matter to Christian groups as well as we see a very serious debate take place about relevant topics to today's society and how they try to do their bit to help make a change in the world to be more accepting and tolerable.

One of the best things about this book is the way it portrays coming out for the first time and having gay sex, an issue not talked about in any teen book I've read before and it's eye opening to see the way it's talked about openly which is a much positive thing to accepting others and involving everyone in being educated to create more understanding. I loved this book and believe the frankness and openness of the language is key and engaging, an essential read of the LGBTQIA fiction for teens out there!