Steffanie Holmes is the author of my favorite series of all time. I love her writing style, I love how she builds up her stories, how she balances a lot of different elements. I love how she gets the pacing of her stories just right, never too fast and never too slow. So, even though I don't do contemporary and I'm not a huge fan of bully romances, I pre-ordered this book as soon as I could. And once I started reading this morning I almost didn't want to stop.The pacing of this book is just perf...

Mackenzie Mallory is convinced that if she can finish her senior year at the Stonehurst Prep that and the fact that the cop that came to her house after finding out she was just seventeen that she decided that going to school would take some of the boredom away after 4 years of being stuck in the mansion by herself will keep her sane. But once she is back in school she acts as if she doesn't know anyone but they all remember and things seem to completely go downhill, Claws, as she is called by h...

This was an interesting premise, but I guess I won’t truly know how I’m feeling about it until I read the the second book when it’s out. This book sets up a lot of questions, but it’s like we don’t get a single one answered? And i wouldn’t claim it as a romance either, while it’s definitely building up to it, and there’s slight steam, i didn’t feel any feelings between the fmc and the three guys. The cliffhanger is interesting, because i definitely wasn’t expecting it. Just have a ton of questio...

I voluntarily reviewed a copy of "MY STOLEN LIFE"This is one interesting, entertaining, intriguing, mysterious intense drama, secrets, lies, betrayal, abuse, so many twists & turns have you turning the pages.Mackenzie Malloy disappeared 5yrs ago she's been in hiding at Malloy Manor with her black cat Queen Bodica her only company also her cousin Antony who save from being buried alive at 13yrs. by her father's trusted friend Brutus.Mackenzie is forced to go back to Stonehurst Prep where she was

Mackenzie Malloy has deadly secrets she needs to keep, but the Ice Queen of Stonehurst Prep wasn't expecting the three princes. Gabriel Fallen is a rock god, and bad boy singer for Octavia's Ruin. Eli Hart, is sweet, sexy, and his heart was broken when his friend disappeared. Noah Marlowe, is a senator's son, and his family blames her's for his older brother's death. Mackenzie and her family disappeared five years ago, and they want to know why she is back.While this is a departure from what thi...

I am not crazy about the heroine in this book. It was the main reason this did not work for me. Mac does not remember anything. She reads her diary to remember people she may have known in her past. The police show up one day and so she has to go back to school. At school, she comes across three boys.#1 - Eli, Mackenzie was friends with him when she was 13 years old. She does not remember him.#2 - Noah, has something against Mackenzie. He wants to see her to suffer.#3 - Griffin is a popular band...

My Stolen Life: a high school bully romance (Stonehurst Prep Book 1) Kindle Edition by Steffanie HolmesI am positively obsessed with Steffanie Holmes's work and this book justifies my love!Trigger warnings:This book takes place in a prep school, but this is not a YA read. Attempted rape, child abuse and very dark, violent settings.MacKensie Malloy has spent the last 4 years alone, living a quiet, secluded life as the ghost of Malloy Manor. With only her cat for company, she is marking time until...

So, uhhh...yeah, this book happened. I'm still a little confused about what I actually just read. I mean, was that ending supposed to be a shocker? Honestly, I thought we were supposed to already "know" about Mac, I mean, there was absolutely no other way that this could have played out and made any sense without us already knowing 'the big reveal', but the ending made me feel like maybe I was supposed to be shocked too? Or maybe we are just supposed to be freaked out because one of the guys...

Actually 3.5 ⭐Interesting.I don't know what to think or feel about this book...I liked it but something is bothering me and I don't know what it is...I am intrigued to read the next one, so let's see if I find my answer in the sequel 😉

There is no pardon in this fast-paced tale, which packs more than the usual punch.'Mac' or 'Claws' was the daughter of a rich and feared man, but when she finds herself buried alive in a coffin and her parents both dead, she's out for more than blood. After remaining hidden for four years, while her cousin, her sole supporter, works on their plan for revenge, she finally hits life again and signs up for her senior year of high school at a prep school for the super rich and prestigious. She could...

Steffanie Holmes has captivated me with everything I have read by her till this point and it seems she just keeps on giving. To date I have read her Nevermore Bookshop series (My absolute FAVORITE), Briarwood Witches, Wolves of Crookshollow, Broken Muses of Manderly Academy and each and everyone has something that calls to me that I just can't explain.Here we have a different twist with the Stoncrest Prep series. Since it is book one we get a brief look at the main characters and parts of what f...

I really liked this book a lot. I'm looking forward to the next one in fact. But, I have some theories or speculation about what's really happening here. So, spoilers below................Okay, so here's what I think...Antony is really her brother. Her fake parents that she lived with that died kept her for some reason and tortured, neglected, and abused her because maybe they had an issue with her real parents. Antony knew somehow and that's why he found her in the grave. If this is true are he...

3.0/3.5⭐ - the questions of "WTF is going on" kept me reading, but I was kind of ehh about the characters. I don't really care for prissy rich bitch ice queen characters, and knowing it's a mask didn't help all that much cause I also didn't get enough peeks at the "real" herContemporary high school RH, told in Multi-POV (though mostly by the FMC in this book) which I love for the added depth and insights with the Hs, with E2L angst with one H. Lots of mystery and intrigue and... confusion 🤔 But

Lots of questions and not a lot of answers. I’m not sure I really get what is going on, especially with the bombshell at the end but I mostly like what I’ve read so far. Mackenzie starts out the book 4 years earlier and she’s been buried alive. Her parents are gone, presumably dead. She somehow hides in their mansion for four years before neighbors report a squatter and a nosy cop swings by. I really think she could have finagled her way through the school thing because she obviously had resourc...

“Someone broke her. Someone snuffed out Mackenzie’s sunshine so completely she’s a stranger to me now. And I have a feeling I know exactly who it was.”My Stolen Life was the introduction to this new to me author. Although there are darker elements, I didn’t find it an overly dark read. An abundance of nasty, privileged kids who hide behind daddy and mummy’s money. Although they all reek of money, they aren’t necessarily living perfect lives. The plot is complex, it’s unpredictable and the charac...

Mackenzie has been hiding out in her mansion since she was 13 years old and avoiding people for 4 years, but a cop has destroyed that for her, and she now needs to attend a school or trouble is going to find her. She decides to go to Stonehurst Prep, but she hasn't been to a school class since she was 13 and it's going to be a big challenge. Can she bluff her way through her senior year? Stonehurst Prep is full of rich kids and their entitled attitudes, will she survive? I loved this engrossing

Mackenzie has been hiding in her family’s mansion for four long years but now she is going to Stonehurst Prep to get revenge on those who hurt her. Will she and her cousin get the revenge they are looking for or will it backfire? Fast-paced read with loads of drama, suspense and twists and turns. I liked it.

Steffanie really knows how to keep you guessing. My Stolen Life is the first book in the Stonehurst Prep series by Steffanie Holmes. This story in told in multiple POVs, but mostly by the heroine. This is the beginings of a reverse harem story full of drama, mystery and suspense. There were are twists and turns we don't see coming and so many questions that need answers. In this story we meet Mackenzie Malloy. She and her family have been MIA for the past four years and circumstance sees her enr...

What i love about Steffanie's books is just how complex the plot's are, they really keep you guessing the whole way through. This was no exception...there was so much action, so many twists and turns and it was so full of suspense....I can't even predict where the story is heading, so many unsolved questions that I'm desperate for answers for.As for the characters...well i just loved how different and tough Mac is, she really can hold her own and definitely fits the ice queen type, but despite t...

What a powerful, engrossing, riveting story. Something terrible happened to Mackenzie four years ago and she was rescued by her cousin Anthony. Now since the age of thirteen she has lived in the family mansion, hidden for four years, while she and Anthony plot the destruction of the people who hurt her and murdered her family. So at seventeen she is going back to school at Stonehurst Prep where all the rich kids go. But there she meets kids from her past. A past she doesn’t remember. Eli acts li...