A review by mistysbookspace
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

4.0

  This was my 100th book read this year so that means I've completed my reading goal for this year with 2 months to spare. This book was recommended to me by a friend in a Discord group I'm a part of. I have seen this book around and I was interested in reading it but I tend to reach for romance over everything else, so I never picked this one up until now because October 2024 is the month I decided I was finally going to read books I don't normally pick up. I ended up buddy reading this one with another friend DB and overall, we both enjoyed it. I can't talk about this book without some minor spoilers so if you haven't read this one yet then please don't read any further. The first thing that stuck out for me when I started reading it was how much the characters were aware of all the stupid things people do in scary movies. This continued on throughout the book which I loved. Of course, they did some stupid stuff to but when they did, they were aware what they were doing was stupid, but it was the only option they had. Things don't really start to happen until we are about 40% into the book. I didn't see any of the plot twists coming even though I probably should have. There was a cult introduced in the book and that just seemed to come out of nowhere. I wish that there would have been more backstory on them because as is it just felt random and unneeded. I also wish that more of the murders would have actually happened on page. Now for the ending. I liked the ending but at the same time I'm not the biggest fan of open endings. I don't like being left with questions. I don't won't to interpret how I think things went after the ending the author leaves us with. While I did have some minor complaints overall this was a really enjoyable read.