Without Mercy

I didn t like thisat all Shay s a troubled teen sent to a remote school, the Blue Rock Academy, under judges orders To me she s a spoilt brat and I just couldn t like her character.Jules, Shay s sister, discovers that one student from the school has recently gone missing and one teacher s been let go On this premise she decides that there must be something wrong at school and that she must therefore rescue her poor baby sister The repetition of the poor baby sister and the comments about I didn [...]

Without Mercy is little than a mish mash of contrivance and clich I m not sure premises get much worse than two ex lovers both posing as teachers at a boot camp style private school to investigate the disappearance of one of the students Nevermind how a rodeo rider come private investigator successfully fakes being an experienced teacher or how the two new comers were completely looked past as suspects despite arriving around the same time as the disappearance and later murders Th Without Mercy [...]

Seventeen year old Shaylee Stillman is a hellion, and a judge has laid down the law She must enroll in a school for troubled teens, or it s jailtime There s something about the Blue Rock Academy that doesn t sit right with her older half sister Jules, who decides to take a teaching job there as a sort of amateur investigator, just to be sure little sis will be okay Unbenownst to Jules, her former boyfriend Cooper, the love of her life whom she just can t forget, also works there, hired by the Se [...]

cheesy line Nona Vickers realized that she d lost than her virginity this night she d also given up her life p 145 Eye roll, please I am trying to just enjoy this as a light, relaxing read, but these lines are killing me The howl of the wind, as forbidding as Satan s laugh, shrieked through the canyon before licking the icy edges of Lake Superstition What the hell Jackson describes in detail how one of the characters heats up coffee from the day before in the microwave and cheesy line Nona Vicke [...]

It s been a long time since I ve read a thriller This one is a little disappointing The bad guy was a good twist I had someone else pegged early on and never suspected the real one However, there is another twist that I just really didn t buy Some of the situations were a bit cheesy and far fetched, and some of the dialogue is not realistic Speaking of not realistic, view spoiler the fire in the cabin, that was completely ridiculous, there s no way anyone would have been able to hold th It s bee [...]

Minor spoiler warningHow this book has as high of a rating as it does is beyond me I was so disappointed at the end It felt like I d wasted time on a wonderful story that was going to connect everything together, but instead it was clear that Jackson wasn t even sure where she was going with the ending She sloppily tried to throw everything together in the last thirty or so pages, and it just didn t work Jules was overly skeptical of a school with no real good reason It was described that [...]

This is the first book I ve read by Lisa Jackson after reading Without Mercy, I look forward to her other books This story caught my attention because it takes place in the mountains of Southern Oregon and the author refers to places I m familiar with Rogue River, Medford, Roseburg, Portland, Siskiyou Mountains although the location and details of the story are fictional Shay, a rebellious teenager, is sent to Blue Rock Academy by the court and her mother, as a last resort to keeping her ou This [...]