Five Survive: AN INSTANT NUMBER 1 NYT BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! An explosive crime thriller from the award-winning author of A Good Girls Guide to Murder.

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I wish the sniper could've been a little more attention but it's all good, the story was quite entertaining and the twists and turns make up for it. Five Survive reached number one in the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover Besteller list, week commencing 19/12/2022. Red, Arthur, and the Lavoy siblings read White; Reyna is Mexican American, and Simon is cued as biracial (Korean and White).

As someone who, overall, loved the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy, I must say I’m shocked that this one didn’t work in my favor as well. If you love true crime, murder mysteries, and unstoppable young women, this is the perfect easy-read thriller. Six teenagers take off for a week in Florida for high school spring break (do high school students do that? When their relationship starts to fall apart under all the pressure, Mel finds herself feeling alone with the impossible dilemma of the Little Bang growing inside her. starting with the main character, Red; i found her dull for the majority of the book, and at times she was irritating.

Red, the Lavoy siblings, and three other friends—Reyna Flores-Serrano, Arthur Moore, and Simon Yoo—embark in a borrowed RV on a journey to Gulf Shores but instead find themselves in the crosshairs of a long-range rifle held by a man demanding that one of them reveal an important secret. As Good As Dead is a phenomenal YA mystery that deserves to be one of the books of the year and provides a stellar finale to a knockout series. I’m sorry,” Oliver said now, tucking Reyna’s thick black hair behind her ear so he could squeeze her shoulder, imprinting his fingers. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels.

Any sixteen-year-olds would expect trouble, but this is Northern Ireland 2018, where abortion is still illegal. The group is then taken hostage by an unseen sniper, who shoots out the rest of the tires, the gas tank, and a window. Arthur was standing just behind Oliver and Reyna, now shooting a closed-­mouth smile as he caught Red’s eye.She watched a blue sedan edging forward to pass, and she helped it along with her eyes, pushing them ahead. as for the characters, i don’t have a lot to say about them since i didn’t like any of them so i’ll be quick. I honestly got so freaked out one time that my eyes teared up, which never happens to me, no matter how scared I am while reading. Holly Jackson is the international bestselling author of the YA crime series: A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER, which has sold millions of copies and adapted into a major television show.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Five Survive is the latest book from Holly Jackson and I honestly couldn't wait to get my hands on it. i had the expectation that thrillers would be more of a page-turner experience but with this book trying to flip a page made me miserable because i just didn't care. I also am unsure how I feel about that ending, with the letter and all, considering how I feel about those characters.

All the characters were written well in this book which I thought wouldn't be possible given the 8 hours of the plot. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The resolution of the entire mystery is over the top and wild, which isn’t a deal breaker for me, but here it felt as if the author was attempting to reach a more adult audience while writing a YA novel, and it just clashed.

this was such an intense, emotional ride with lots of depth and nuance, and let me tell you: it broke me.I've read all four of her books at this point and she always gives me the most complex feelings about the decisions she makes with her books. Something wasn’t right; the cars seemed too small from up here at her window, but Red didn’t feel any bigger. When all four tires and the gas tank are shot out, they cower in the RV's interior while attempting to devise a plan of escape. i honestly should’ve made time to read this in one sitting because the story takes place over the span of 8 hours and reading it in one go would have been so much more immersive.