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Shiver
by Allie Reynolds
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Keep your friends close & your frenemies closer.....
Milla receives an invite to a reunion at a ski resort in the French Alps. She doesn't really want to go but the invite is from Curtis, the man she has held a torch for all these years. She's surprised to hear from him after 10 years especially around the anniversary of his sister's disappearance at the same resort, but she can't pass up the chance to see if he has any feelings for her too.
When she arrives, four other members of the group are there (Brent, Curtis, Dale, & Heather) but otherwise the resort is deserted & the cable cars take them to the top & then shut down. Milla assumes that Curtis has organised an exclusive break for them all but when their phones disappear & there's no staff anywhere, she realises something is wrong.
It turns out that each of them received an email invite from someone pretending to be another one of the group. Now they are stuck & when an icebreaker game turns menacing, they begin to wonder who really invited them & what game they are really playing.
The isolated location is one of my favourite reading tropes especially based around holiday resorts or theme parks. There was a great sense of creeping menace with not knowing who to trust - I mean, is Milla telling us the whole truth? The narrative is split into dual timelines: present-day & 10 years ago just before Curtis's sister, Saskia, disappeared. Tense & gripping, it was a tiny bit too overplayed in parts.
Milla receives an invite to a reunion at a ski resort in the French Alps. She doesn't really want to go but the invite is from Curtis, the man she has held a torch for all these years. She's surprised to hear from him after 10 years especially around the anniversary of his sister's disappearance at the same resort, but she can't pass up the chance to see if he has any feelings for her too.
When she arrives, four other members of the group are there (Brent, Curtis, Dale, & Heather) but otherwise the resort is deserted & the cable cars take them to the top & then shut down. Milla assumes that Curtis has organised an exclusive break for them all but when their phones disappear & there's no staff anywhere, she realises something is wrong.
It turns out that each of them received an email invite from someone pretending to be another one of the group. Now they are stuck & when an icebreaker game turns menacing, they begin to wonder who really invited them & what game they are really playing.
The isolated location is one of my favourite reading tropes especially based around holiday resorts or theme parks. There was a great sense of creeping menace with not knowing who to trust - I mean, is Milla telling us the whole truth? The narrative is split into dual timelines: present-day & 10 years ago just before Curtis's sister, Saskia, disappeared. Tense & gripping, it was a tiny bit too overplayed in parts.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Sexual content