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A review by outsmartyourshelf
The Party by Natasha Preston
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
A group of friends decide to have a secret party weekend in a remote castle owned by the parents of one of the teens. Undergoing development, the castle has limited electricity & heating & no-one will know they are there. Soon after they arrive a storm rages & only 10 of them manage to make it to the site. The weather traps them inside & their mobiles go missing on the first evening so they can't call for help, & as one by one they begin to meet with fatal 'accidents', friend Bessie & Kash realise they are trapped with friends that they don't know as well as they thought.
The covers, settings, & synopses of the books by this author suck me in every time, & every time the characters are too underdeveloped for the reader to care about what happens to them. In this one there was also a lot of wandering about with a killer on the loose - the group would decide to stay together (safety in numbers) & then one of them would suddenly take off meaning the rest of them would split up to find them. Rinse & repeat. Entertaining enough to finish reading it but I wouldn't pick it up again.
The covers, settings, & synopses of the books by this author suck me in every time, & every time the characters are too underdeveloped for the reader to care about what happens to them. In this one there was also a lot of wandering about with a killer on the loose - the group would decide to stay together (safety in numbers) & then one of them would suddenly take off meaning the rest of them would split up to find them. Rinse & repeat. Entertaining enough to finish reading it but I wouldn't pick it up again.