As good as the first book

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The Girl in Cell 49B by Dorian Box. Thanks to @frictionpress and @bookishfirst for the gifted e-Arc ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

After Lucas gifts Emily a gun for her sixteenth birthday, she finds herself in a fight she shouldn’t have butt into. She then finds herself locking in a juvenile detention center facing an old murder charge.

I love, love, loved the first book, the Hiding Girl. It was one of my top 12 reads in 2020, so of course I had to pick up the second book following Emily Calby. It did not disappoint. It wasn’t quite as exciting throughout the whole book as the first book was, but it was still as good. This was more of a legal thriller. I also loved that it took place in a juvenile detention center; Orange is the New Black meets.. well, meets Emily Calby. My only wish is that Lucas was in it more, but of course he had to take a smaller role as he wouldn’t really be welcome in the facility. The ending got super exciting, and that was unexpected but so welcome after the legal thrilling was over. Showing sarcastic and intelligent Emily in the courtroom was a smart move! Also, if you have not read the first book, you can still read this, but I’d suggest reading the first just because it’s awesome and you’ll understand the characters on a deeper level.

“Dad always said go for the balls, but Lucas taught me that crushing a man’s trachea is more reliable.”

The Girl in Cell 49B comes out 3/1.