Overall Take:
YA Thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end
Star Rating:
5 Stars
Genre:
YA Thriller
Synopsis
It was supposed to be a fun girls trip before they head off to college aboard the luxury yacht, but that’s far from what happened. One night they were cruising along and the next morning there were only four of them remaining. The security camera shows one of them pushing the other overboard. But she has no memory of this happening, and she knows she woke up with a splitting headache. Can she get to the bottom of what really happened before the police make their conclusions?
Thoughts:
This was such a fun book! The timeline was great, it was told in reverse chronological order and that isn’t something I do often so I had a lot of fun with it. It was a little hard to follow, but not so much so that I didn’t enjoy it, it just required a little more concentration which was alright. I am a huge fan of YA thrillers, probably even more so than adult thrillers at this point. I don’t know why, but I usually love them when I read them and that was the case with this book. I think that this book was fantastic in that it was told from different points of view, and there were bonus excerpts from the victims journal and transcripts from the police interviews. The mixed media help break things up and truly made for an engaging and entertaining read. The writing was wonderful and written in a way that sucked me right into the story. I felt like I was in the yacht with these young girls (even though I didn’t really want to be!). I love how the story wrapped up, it was so much fun and I really did not see everything coming! I love when that happens because it is such a fun feeling to be surprised and that is exactly what happened.
Publication Date:
November 19, 2024 (rerelease via ace)
Author:
Jan Gangsei
Page Length:
336 pages
Publisher:
Harper Kids
Thank you to:
Thank you to @mbc_books @harperkids the author @jangangsei and @netgalley for this book! All thoughts are my own.
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