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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I’m proud to say I guessed the killer
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A mysterious resort opens it doors and only a few influencers have the right to check it out. However everyone has to be at least 21 and no one knows a thing about this resort. And nothing is as it seems because the whole thing is a trap and a dangerous one!
Never Coming Home isn’t my first book by Williams and yet again I have not been disappointed.
The suspense is there from the beginning and it stays with you until the very end. Which I did like a lot.
As with the other books by the author I enjoyed the writing style in this one too. I might have just one negative thing to say which is that the book might have been a tad too long for me.
Other than that I have nothing more to say and I hope that, if you read the book, that you’ll enjoy it as well!
It might be a Young Adult Thriller but as an adult you will enjoy the mystery in this novel as well.
Never Coming Home isn’t my first book by Williams and yet again I have not been disappointed.
The suspense is there from the beginning and it stays with you until the very end. Which I did like a lot.
As with the other books by the author I enjoyed the writing style in this one too. I might have just one negative thing to say which is that the book might have been a tad too long for me.
Other than that I have nothing more to say and I hope that, if you read the book, that you’ll enjoy it as well!
It might be a Young Adult Thriller but as an adult you will enjoy the mystery in this novel as well.
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Truly wasn’t what I was expecting, the pacing was a bit slower, it felt more of like a script of a documentary that was made, it was alright but not my favorite
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Suicide, Excrement, Vomit
A lot of reviewers compare this one to And Then There Were None … but I’ve never read that, so for me it was Fyre Festival meets Super Dangan Ronpa 2. Wow that’s so sad alexa play the OST from that game. This also meant I kept picturing Celia as Chiaki Nanami.
Anyway, after reading a very disappointing YA thriller last week it was fun to read one that was this entertaining. Don’t go in expecting super complex characterization… this is very much one of those thriller/horror scenarios where the fun is less in the characters and more in watching people get picked off one by one and mentally trying to diagram everything to figure out what happened. Actually I’d throw Bodies Bodies Bodies in as another comparison. I found myself kind of giggly in a morbid way over how outlandish each death trap became.
I feel like the mystery is fairly easy to figure out, but I didn’t mind that either. It was fun reading each scene and keeping an eye on the one I found suspicious and looking for clues that added to my theories.
This is is also a rare book that incorporates social media and … does a pretty decent job at it! So that’s pretty cool too. But that’s a minor complaint. And I’m embarrassed by how obsessed I know I would get with /r/UnknownIsland
Definitely recommended if you want a mystery that’s a bit camp/over the top.
Anyway, after reading a very disappointing YA thriller last week it was fun to read one that was this entertaining. Don’t go in expecting super complex characterization… this is very much one of those thriller/horror scenarios where the fun is less in the characters and more in watching people get picked off one by one and mentally trying to diagram everything to figure out what happened. Actually I’d throw Bodies Bodies Bodies in as another comparison. I found myself kind of giggly in a morbid way over how outlandish each death trap became.
I feel like the mystery is fairly easy to figure out, but I didn’t mind that either. It was fun reading each scene and keeping an eye on the one I found suspicious and looking for clues that added to my theories.
This is is also a rare book that incorporates social media and … does a pretty decent job at it! So that’s pretty cool too.
Spoiler
I think my only big complaint is that I wish it had ended with the epistolary section that has Celia nearly blowing her cover on Reddit. We didn’t need the last few prose paragraphs to go “she definitely totally did it you guys!”Definitely recommended if you want a mystery that’s a bit camp/over the top.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Plot as thin as a piece of paper, characters underdeveloped like a raw hamburger, but man, some of the deaths were gnarly. Especially for a YA.
An influencer take on And Then There were None, this story was a lot of fun and a perfect beach read. Each influencer has secrets and I loved reading on to see how they unwind their secrets as the others die around them. Some are pretty straightforward, but to see them lie to save face and then reveal the truth was just so good. The mystery is set up almost immediately, with no one knowing what is going on, and continues, as the influencers find out just how isolated they are. No one is innocent, everyone is a suspect, and is everything I wanted in a teen murder mystery.
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC