Reviews with content warning for Cursing - Five Survive

I was so excited for another book by Holly Jackson, but this one did not live up to the magic of the Good Girl's Guide series.

Thecentral mystery was interesting, but treated as a B plot. The main plot -- the teens trapped in the RV -- became much more annoying in light of the actual circumstances.

All in all, not bad, but I would have loved to borrow this from the library instead of using an Audible credit.

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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anjh's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

oh my god. wow. how do i put all my thoughts about this book into one review. the amount of times i was holding my breath or about to beat up oliver (fuck oliver) through the page or getting literal shivers down my spine. this thriller was THRILLING let me tell you, holly jackson has some way of keeping you guessing and keeping you on the edge of your seat wondering “then who is it?? what?? how??” and suddenly a few pages down the track everything makes sense and slots into place and you beat yourself up for not realising sooner how holly tricked you and played with your mind through her writing, to make you believe and empathise with characters that were actually plotting violence and silently hating characters that were completely innocent. there were a few points in this book - particularly towards the start - where i almost felt like the writing style was similar to that of a poorly written wattpad fanfiction just because of the way holly has chosen to repeat seemingly useless details over and over and over again and i was thinking “why on earth is this relevant??” but thinking about it in more detail and reading online analyses of this book it makes sense that red is so detail focused and obsessive likely as a result of trauma.

i love red so much and can relate to her a lot and i hate oliver. i really hate oliver. fuck oliver. oliver sucks. the light blue tabs are “fuck oliver” tabs. oh and the letter at the end oh my god holly jackson will be paying for my therapy after this. ***PLS CHECK THE CONTENT WARNINGS IF UR THINKING OF READING!!***

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kassiitayla's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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tabea1409's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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itstruly_flower's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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bryn2011's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

AMAZING!!! Slow at first but after the the book is so easy to soar through!!!! Plot twist after plot twist! My jaw was dropping the entire time....

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lexi98's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

✨ Book Review ✨

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Format: Physical

Genre(s): Mystery/Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Quote: “The guilt a physical pain in your gut, twisting and twisting, like a hunger that never ended”

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Eight Hours

Six Friends

One Sniper

Stuck in an RV ••• Will they all Survive?!

This book takes you on a rollercoaster that you CANNOT get off! To me, the book starts off slow (like the start of a rollercoaster going uphill) and then, with every twist and turn and new surprise, it was a straight nose-dive to the end. Like the book stated, EXACTLY Five Survive.

📚 Summary

This book is set over a course of 8 hours (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) with six friends traveling from Philadelphia to Gulf Shores for Spring Break. In between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., the RV comes to a halt when they had a flat tire. The friends changed the tire, got back in the RV, then CRACK! After crack after crack, all four tire were blown out. And CRACK! A sniper shooting out the gas tank and now, they are stuck.

They all hear a faint “Hello” and find a walkie talkie. “What if I said you were the right people, in the right place at exactly the right time…” This was not a random attack - it was planned. Someone in the RV knows something that the sniper wants - a secret. “You know who you are and you know what it is.” But what good is a secret if it’s told?

With tensions rising, the stakes are high … the sniper is getting impatient and so is everyone in the RV. They all will have choices to make: reveal their secrets in hopes that it’s THE secret or start to turn on each other. How bad could it get inside the RV?

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