Sweetfreak by Sophie McKenzie

When Carey's best friend Amelia starts getting bullied online my someone under the online pseudonym, Sweetfreak, Carey is accused after the messages are traced to her IP address by the police. Facing serious charges she freaks out and despite pleading her innocence isn't believed by anyone, even as she tries to prove it.

Rose, a popular girl at school and her clones soon offer each girl separate shoulders to cry on but can they trust them?

Taylor, Amelia's ex also starts to turn his wavering girl based attention on Carey and she gets swayed into a brief kiss with him but it turns out he's hiding secrets that she needs to figure out right now!

Nattersnap is how messages got sent starting the bullying, its also since added fuel to the fire of all these friendships and relationships.

Amelia then goes missing and while Carey knows she and her friend upset her sister recently maybe the answer has been staring her in the face all along as to whom Sweetfreak is...

After Carey starts her mission to prove her innocence, she gets caught up in becoming a runaway, befriending homeless strangers and a police wanted girl. She deals with tough situations which in real life can have catastrophic outcomes on anyone. We see both sides of the story from victim and bully, allowing us to get a full view of how both feels and how they are effected by their actions. Not only a great book on the issue of bullying and ever growing social media issues but its a great mystery by a well established queen of that category. I've loved Sophie McKenzie's writing since I was twelve and now ten years on, am still never disappointed by her books.

180 Seconds by Jessica Park

Allison was adopted by Simon her gay adoptive dad at sixteen and a half but is now at college. However a chance meeting with Esben Baylor making a video of 180 seconds of eye contact with the help of his sister for his social media platforms makes a bond form between Allison and Esben.

Allison only knew of Esben as he is in her psychology class and she didn't know he was an internet sensation until Steffi her best friend whom she met in care tells her. The two are as close as sisters.

Esben and Kelly also have a lot of heavy discussions around parties and the rape/sex consent situation which often features in teen books. In this case, it also deals with guilt over a mistake.

As Esben, Kelly his sister and Allison all bond across country, Steffi finds out that her cancer is back and despite shutting out everyone, her foster parents and then Allison, social media gets them to her in time as she sees the error of her ways in being strong alone.

A very different book in terms of the story from the title but with a lot of usual storylines that are hard hitting and dramatic.

Earth Hates Me by Ruby Karp

From a young teenage girl, comes and insane amount of wisdom about life growing up as a girl in modern day society with all the social media around us and pressure to be 'perfect'.

In the book, Ruby discusses a range of topics;
Appreciating every experience
Finding the humour
Being you and learn yourself
Throw yourself into trying things
Social media can have multiple side effects
Sexism in sports
Girl hate
Pressure at school
Teachers aren't always right
Crushes and unrequited love

Plus much more!

Ruby enlightens us to her experiences, how they effected her and how she moved on from the experiences she's faced. With many stories told throughout, relatable and not, one thing is constant and that for me is Ruby is an incredibly in tune teenage girl with how such situations can effect you but only if you let them.

Earth Hates Me is such a true title of how teenagers are made to feel in today's society which is really bad. We need more realistic things out there and more role models like Ruby for other teens to listen to and realise, it's okay to just be you, however you are so long as you are happy with yourself!

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

Royce Rolls by Margaret Stohl

The Royce's are a famous family, name and wealth = status and fame.

Currently:
Bentley Royce is presumed dead alongside her future brother in law after reports of their car going off the edge of a high cliff edge.

Flashback:
The Royce family are alike to our real life Kardashians.
Outrageous and all named after cars, Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley etc they juat scream watch me as they attend glitzy events and selfie to their hearts content.

Bentley is now used to the limelight, growing up alongside her family under its constant glow despite being shy and quiet when she was younger.

Now, the show is under threat of cancellation and Bentley can't help but think so what? She hides at Hollywood parties still and whilst doing so meets Asa, with whom she has a lot of common interests as they get talking and he doesn't know who she actually is. This fuels her dream of going to college still.

Her crazy mum Mercedes then on camera adopts a duck of all things! Porche's lippie's line isn't selling well and so the family need to rethink how they can rescue themselves put of debt and their show from being cut.

So, Bentley takes matters into her own hands, appearing at every club, store opening etc. Meanwhile, her brother, Bach, is gambling too much and her sister has got engaged to a wannabe rap star, Whitey. As the drama unfolds, Porches dangerous driving alerts all the family and she and Mercedes argue and clash a lot over the impending wedding, an engagement with a laugh out loud moment and Bentley finding out a huge secret about Whitey which see's her team up with her brother to try and stop the wedding!

Also from the beginning flashback, are they alive or are the reports true and not just over eager press lying about the truth?!

Drama filled and sure to leave you wanting more, Margaret Stohl has written a book I think I love more than her her Beautiful Creatures series! Thanks to the publishers allowing me to review it for them!

Antisocial by Jillian Blake

Anna has split up with her boyfriend and basketball star over the Christmas break and no, he gave her no reason for the split.

We also learn Anna suffers with Anxiety and so her social phobia doesn't help the issue around high school clique's.
Add into the mix that her friends - whom she hasn't hung out with or kept up to date with - are now ignoring or just putting up with her coming back to them.

There's also the matter of kind, goofy Jethro whom Anna has nearly had a thing with twice. She totally hasn't admitted she likes him and has kept denying it. Yet when he helps her out at a party, it seems there's a lot of feeling still there!

Next, there's the small matter of a serious social media leakage of people's most private stuff online they though was theirs alone.
People's internet history, messages, photo's etc end up being the talk of the school and cause many relationship issues among the friends. Anna and her group seem to think it's the work of Haven, a jock who's known for doing and sharing things for a kick but this is extreme even for him they agree, so they need to learn who's doing it and stop them.

The book is super important in this day and age of technology growing constantly and the pressures of social media, social acceptance and the fact it can take it's toll and also bring out the worse side of people. It also shows in the book how it can endanger future education and job offers as pictures are out there for the world to see.

If you like The Clique book series and TV shows, Gossip Girl and 90210, I'm sure you'll enjoy this like I have!

Thanks to the publishers for allowing me a copy to review for them!