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A review by keziareads
Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.0
(Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Children’s UK for an eARC in exchange for an honest review)
This was a really good book! The plot had lots of layers that wove well together to create a suspense-filled mystery that had lots of twists and turns. I think the pacing throughout the book was great except for the last couple of chapters where things started to feel a little rushed and the mystery ended up being wrapped up pretty quickly. This is something I find happens in a lot of mystery novels and while it doesn’t impact the book too much, it is slightly frustrating to have all the motives etc thrown at you right at the end.
I really liked the main characters, how they were written and the different POVs as they were really easy to distinguish between (sometimes when reading multiple POVs, everything can get super confusing). As the plot develops, the perception you have of the main characters constantly switches. One chapter you think they must be innocent then the next they seem guilty and I really like how the author did this as it kept me hooked the entire time and left me questioning everything.
This was a really good book! The plot had lots of layers that wove well together to create a suspense-filled mystery that had lots of twists and turns. I think the pacing throughout the book was great except for the last couple of chapters where things started to feel a little rushed and the mystery ended up being wrapped up pretty quickly. This is something I find happens in a lot of mystery novels and while it doesn’t impact the book too much, it is slightly frustrating to have all the motives etc thrown at you right at the end.
I really liked the main characters, how they were written and the different POVs as they were really easy to distinguish between (sometimes when reading multiple POVs, everything can get super confusing). As the plot develops, the perception you have of the main characters constantly switches. One chapter you think they must be innocent then the next they seem guilty and I really like how the author did this as it kept me hooked the entire time and left me questioning everything.