Gateway Reviews

KILL CREATURES The last person Nan expects to show up to the anniversary vigil is Luce. It's Luce's  vigil, after all. She went missing, along with Edie and Jane, a year ago. She's been missing this whole time. Everybody thought they died out in the canyon. Everybody knew that to be true, even without the bodies. Especially their best friend Nan. Because Nan's the one who killed them. But with Luce suddenly back, Nan's whole reality gets tilted. She was ready to say her final goodbyes. She was ready to wipe her tears away, to hug their families a final farewell. She was ready to put this past year, and all the lies she told with it, behind her. In the face of everyone's joy at Luce's return, Nan feels something... worse. Because she knows those girls were dead, and Luce was first. THOUGHTS The atmosphere of this book is immersive, but aside...

LADY OR THE TIGER When nineteen-year-old Belle King sings, the world stops to listen. They always have. Always will. Which means when she decides to die--when she turns herself in for a murder she definitely committed--the whole world is watching. Even trapped in a jail cell in Dodge City, Kansas, Belle has herself an audience. But the last person she expects to turn up at the jail, begging for her release, is her abusive husband, a man she left behind many miles (and several bodies) ago. He was her first kill, after all. But somehow, he's still breathing, and he's wound up right here in Dodge City, begging for her to be turned back over to him. Jeopardizing all her well-laid plans. Belle King has an arsenal of tricks up her sleeve, and these days, she always gets her way. But in the 1880s, nobody wants to believe a woman. Not even a legend like her, whoever she used to be. THOUGHTS...

KILL THE LAX BRO No Hancock High student would miss the annual senior lock-in the night before graduation. Everybody who's anybody (and everybody who's nobody) will be there. But when the school's star lacrosse player, Troy Richards, turns up dead, the lock-in takes a dark turn. But not everybody knows Troy Richards is dead. Not yet. Jennifer might be every high school boy's dream girl, but she hated Troy Richards as much as any other girl at Hancock. Naomi, a geek and an underclassmen, has no reason to be caught up in all this... except that she does. Sassi might be primed for valedictorian, but she and Troy have a dirty history. And anyone would happily point fingers to perpetual senior Tatum, the not-quite-dropout rebel who can't ever seem to finish high school. These girls have nothing in common, except that they're each other's alibi when they find a body growing cold... ...

TIME AFTER TIME Nobody needs to tell nineteen-year-old Libby that pouring her college fund into buying an old Victorian house is a bad idea. She's very aware it's a bad idea. But she's been obsessed with the fixer-upper since she was a kid visiting her grandmother, so much so that the For Sale sign seems like, well, a sign. When her parents find out what she's done (and when they determine she's not willing to give up the house she bought), Libby finds herself out of one home... and into a new one. Living in the old Victorian feels strange at first, all alone, but as she settles in, Libby discovers the journals of a young woman, Elizabeth Post, who once called this house home, too. Elizabeth, who fell in love in this house circa 1925. Libby has no plans of falling in love, but she does want to fix up this old house. Which means she needs Tish. Whatever compelled broke college student Tish to knock on her door was a stro...

OUT OF AIR Phoebe Ray has always been at home underwater. She's got the ocean in her blood. As the Salt Squad's lead photographer, too, she's made something of a splash on social media. The future is bright, but... Six months ago, something changed the dynamic of the Salt Squad. Six months ago, they found something on a dive. Six months ago, the bond between them was shaken, but they've put all that behind them. Or they're trying. Now, in their final summer before college, the Salt Squad has big plans, plans to do what they do best: dive beneath the waves, looking for lost treasures. This has taken them to a distant Australian island, to the place of pirate legends and old seaside myths (that they definitely don't plan on exploring). But Phoebe has something of a sixth sense when it comes to the sea, and not everything wants to stay buried beneath the waves... THOUGHTS...

TITAN OF THE STARS Titan is the most advanced, most deluxe space cruiser to ever exist, and Celeste knows every inch of it. She's put in the work, after all. And she and the rest of the crew are set to launch this ship into the stars for Titan 's maiden voyage from Earth to Mars where Celeste will finally have the opportunities (and the credentials, thanks to working as an apprentice on the Titan ) to reach for the life she's always wanted. She can't wait to leave Earth and all its problems behind. For Dominic, this voyage looks a little... less optimistic. Sure, he's not stuck in crew quarters (or worse). Sure, he's got all the luxury of the Titan at his disposal. But he's stuck here with his overbearing father, with the boyfriend he doesn't exactly want anymore, and with a life on Mars devoid of the art school future he longed for back on Earth. So things aren't really going his way, all things considered. What neither Ce...