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A review by nicolemhewitt
The Stranger Game by Cylin Busby
5.0
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This is one of those twisty books that keeps you up all night reading it (I did, in fact, stay up way too late to finish it because once I got three quarters of the way through I had to know the details of what happened). The first half of the book was a bit slower—it’s obvious that something is up with Sarah, but the question is, what? Has Sarah’s experiences with her captors changed her in some fundamental way? Is she somehow working with them? Trying to forget what happened? Is this not Sarah at all? There are lots of clues, but they don’t all seem to add up until the very end of the book.
The book is told mostly from Nico’s POV, interspersed with short flashbacks from Sarah’s time in captivity. Sarah’s scenes are heartbreaking (but not terribly graphic, so this book is still fine for younger YA readers who can handle the concept). By the time I got to the end of the book, I was furiously turning the pages, desperate to know how it would all play out. I didn’t guess at what was coming—at all—until close to when everything was revealed, and by then I was hooked into the story, eager to know the details. This book gets 4/5 Stars.
***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. No other compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***
This is one of those twisty books that keeps you up all night reading it (I did, in fact, stay up way too late to finish it because once I got three quarters of the way through I had to know the details of what happened). The first half of the book was a bit slower—it’s obvious that something is up with Sarah, but the question is, what? Has Sarah’s experiences with her captors changed her in some fundamental way? Is she somehow working with them? Trying to forget what happened? Is this not Sarah at all? There are lots of clues, but they don’t all seem to add up until the very end of the book.
The book is told mostly from Nico’s POV, interspersed with short flashbacks from Sarah’s time in captivity. Sarah’s scenes are heartbreaking (but not terribly graphic, so this book is still fine for younger YA readers who can handle the concept). By the time I got to the end of the book, I was furiously turning the pages, desperate to know how it would all play out. I didn’t guess at what was coming—at all—until close to when everything was revealed, and by then I was hooked into the story, eager to know the details. This book gets 4/5 Stars.
***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. No other compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***