Most Likely to Murder by Lish McBride

e-ALC, 08:33:46
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Release Date: March 24, 2026
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: March 24-26, 2026
 Stand-alone 
Source: PRH Audio App (I received this ALC free from the publisher and their app. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Murder, Death, Blood, Bullying, Drug Use, Gun Violence, Sexual Content, Suicide, Injury/Injury Detail
For Readers of: Audio, Catchy Title, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Thrillers, YA

    Yearbook superlatives turn deadly in this darkly funny young adult thriller.
     The rumor mill has never been kind to Meadowvale High seniors and best friends Rick and Martina, labeling them outcasts (sure), stoners (no comment), and pranksters (okay, this one’s fair). But for the most part, they have successfully flown under the radar.
     That is, until they’re targeted in a prank that replaces yearbook superlatives with grisly forecasts of student and faculty deaths. Sure, Rick and Martina were never going to be voted Most Likely to Succeed . . . but Homecoming’s Cutest Corpses? Thanks for the cute, no thanks on the corpse.
     At first, the senior class is annoyed by the prank. But when the body of Mr. Stephens, Most Likely to Sleep with the Fishes, is dredged from the bottom of a lake, suspicions arise that something truly sinister is going on. And as more people turn up dead in the exact ways the yearbook promised, it becomes clear someone’s killing off the student body one page at a time.
     Now Rick and Martina must find the yearbook killer before their vicious superlative comes true. So much for surviving high school without drawing attention. Now Rick and Martina just want to survive.
     For fans of Holly Jackson, Karen M. McManus, and Danielle Valentine!

*MY THOUGHTS*

This sounded so good and I was so excited for this for so long! And for the most part it worked out ok and was entertaining enough. It was definitely weird, but not exactly surprising.

Ok so when I heard about this book I was really intrigued about the yearbook thing. Those were crazy like “premonitions” on how they might die. And omg I can’t imagine seeing that after we realized the connections. I would have freaked tf out lol But yeah, this premise was crazy af and I was shocked that the actual things were just as crazy.

One thing that annoyed me tho was the pacing. It was crazy at the beginning and then the middle it kind of stalled. I don’t think I would have kept reading it if it wasn’t an audio. It got a little boring. Even in my notes I can see an obvious fall in rapid notes I took during the middle. They pick right back up when I got toward the ending tho.

The whole thing with the ending tho, I was so disappointed. The dumbest reason EVER to do this to people. I can’t imagine having to explain to someone that my relative did something like this. I DID guess who it was tho. Funnily enough I wrote who it was on a whim and then a little while later, it was confirmed.

This was a little out there imo. It wasn’t bad, just I felt like it was trying too hard to be something believable. Some parts worked, but other things were really weird. Like they were looking for things this whole book and they hardly ever found anything. They mostly happened upon something and then things happened to them. it was weird. It wasn’t bad, it was just different.

Overall, I give this