Summary: Two girls haunted by the past…and destined to relive it…

In “Legacy of Lies,” Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She’s determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family’s legacy in more ways than she realizes.

In “Don’t Tell,” Lauren knows that by returning to the town where her mother drowned seven years ago, she’ll be reliving one of her most haunting memories. When she arrives, she is propelled into a series of mysterious events that mimic the days leading up to her mother’s death. Maybe her mother’s drowning wasn’t an accident after all…and maybe Lauren is next.

We have been seeing a lot of young adult books from the 90s and early 2000s being re-released in bind-up form these past few years – some examples would be the Wicked series by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, LJ Smith’s body of work, and Christopher Pike’s The Last Vampire series and Remember Me trilogy – and they are something that I have been taking great delight in. Why? Because it gives me and so many others a second chance to get my hands on all these wonderful stories – both the ones already read and the ones that would have otherwise not been.

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Chapter Twelve: A Prisoner With Power

Lorquas Ptomel wants to have a nice little chat with John about his plans to escape with Dejah Thoris. He is very reasonable and points out that John has a lot of prestige despite being a prisoner, and that John’s plans of escape are not very honorable! Lorquas mentions that there is some indication that John is a heretic, and this is another reason why John needs to chill on his escape plans. Lorquas also points out that John’s behavior is making the politics of this particular tribe very murky and problematic and John needs to stop causing problems. Lorquas also states that Dejah Thoris is a very important prisoner and absolutely needs to be transported to the big Thark shindig where she will be torn to bits or worse. He then finishes up with a speech that Tharks are honorable and justice-seeking beings and that Dejah’s lecture is completely untrue.

The interesting part here is that we can see that Tharks do not see themselves as particularly uncivilized.

In which John is really old, yet sulks like a boy rejected by his first crush.