e-Audio, 10:00:48
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Jesse Vilinsky
Release Date: February 4, 2025
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: February 4-5, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received a copy of this e-ALC from the PRH Audio App in exchange for a just and honest review.)
Content Warning: Murder, Blood, Death, Violence, Confinement, Sexual Content, Bullying, Abandonment
For Readers Interested In: Audio, Realistic Fiction, Mystery Thrillers, Boarding Schools, YAA page-turning murder mystery set at a prestigious New England boarding school and the dark secrets a killer desperately wants hidden.
Secrets don’t die when you do.
It’s the first week of senior year at Middlebrook Academy. For Amy and her best friend Sarah, that means late-night parties at the boathouse, bike rides through their sleepy Connecticut town, and the crisp beginning of a New England fall.
Then tragedy. Sarah and her boyfriend are brutally murdered in their dorm room. Now the week Amy has been dreaming about for years has turned into a nightmare, especially when all eyes turn to her as the culprit. She was Sarah’s only roommate, the only other person there when she died—or so she told the police to cover for her own boyfriend’s suspicious whereabouts. And even though they were best friends, with every passing day, Amy begins to learn that Sarah lied about a lot of things.
Liz, editor of the school newspaper and social outcast, is determined to uncover the truth about what happened on campus, in hopes her reporting will land a prestigious scholarship to college. As Liz dives deeper into her investigation, the secrets these murdered seniors never wanted out come to light. The deeper Liz digs, the messier the truth becomes – and with a killer still on campus, she can’t afford to make any mistakes.
The Meadowbrook Murders is a gripping mystery about the inextricable way power, privilege, and secrets are linked, and how telling the truth can come at a deadly price.
*MY THOUGHTS*
After finishing The Counselors the other year I was SO READY for this one. I just knew another book about teens being away from their parents and being extra af was going to have some bs going on. And sure enough, that’s exactly what happened. However, unlike The Counselors, it was pretty basic…..
Ok so this one was a mystery set at a boarding school. And this boarding school was hella weird. There were secret paths throughout the campus. And I just….. that doesn’t seem safe? And yep, it definitely wasn’t lol Because two characters end up dead. Normally this sounds like my kind of book, but I never fell completely into it. It was basic. It had all the elements for a thriller, but without the like big reveal or an ending that threw me off, it was just good. I’d still recommend it to people, but it wasn’t my favorite.
The characters were ok. Well let me rephrase that. Amy was ok. Liz was not. I’m sorry, I HATE the press. They love to try to stir up some shit or run things with no thoughts to who they hurt in the process. It’s always been weird to me. So seeing Liz and what she was doing made me a bit creeped out. For a scholarship? Yeah it was weird. But Amy had it bad. Not only had she lost her best friend, but people were so mean to her about it. Basically blaming her for it. She never really got to grieve and I hated that. But as the story goes on, they end up coming together to find out what happened. And yeah I guess I like them better together, but I still wasn’t satisfied. It was like weird to me.
The ending was ok. I didn’t guess who the killer was, but that’s what made me still like it? Because I was rolling my eyes mostly at Liz lol But the ending was weird. It just gave the answers and then that was it. There was no like extra plot twist either. I was not a huge fan. It was weird.
This wasn’t what I was expecting, but I liked it all the same. It scratched the itch for what I wanted at the time. Even if it wasn’t what I thought it would be. Was it my favorite? No. Did it fulfill what it needed to anyway? Yes. So make your own conclusions.
Overall, I give this
