e-Audio, 09:09:22
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Phoebe Strole, Brittany Pressley, Rachel L. Jacobs, Barrett Leddy, Nick Martineau, Bailey Carr, Briggon Snow
Release Date: October 15, 2024
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: October 9-11, 2024
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received an e-ALC from the publisher and their audio app. This did nothing to influence my review)
Content Warning: Death, Infidelity, Toxic Relationship, Bullying, Chronic Illness, Drug Abuse, Sexual Assault, Violence, Confinement
For Readers Interested In: Locked Room Mysteries, Snowed In Thrillers, Alternative for And Then There Were None, Multiple POV, YAWhen a winter storm traps eight teens in a remote ski cabin, they find themselves stranded with a killer—who may be one of their own. From the acclaimed author of The Ivies and Pretty Dead Queens comes a YA thriller that will make your blood run cold.
The trip of a lifetime might be the death of them all.
The students of LA’s elite Warner Prep can’t wait for their Senior Excursion—five days of Instagrammable adventure in one of the world’s most exclusive locations. This is not your average field trip.
Which is why eight students can’t believe their bad luck when they end up on a digital detox in an isolated Colorado ski chalet. Their epic trip is panning out to be an epic bore . . . until their classmates start dropping in a series of disturbing deaths. The message is clear: this trip is no accident.
And when a blizzard strikes, secrets are revealed, betrayals are exposed, and survival is at stake in a race to the bitter end.
“Will leave you gasping for air.” -Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters
*MY THOUGHTS*
I read that prom one by Donne, the one with the author grandmother, and I LOVED it. I thought it was going to be another one of those. Unfortunately, it was good, but the thrillingness wasn’t there for me. For some reason i wanted more.
I think the reason I didn’t care for this one as much was the many POVs. The voices were all different in sound (I listened to it via audio) but they sounded alike via the terms of voices in writing if that makes sense. Basically of they hadn’t been all different people I wouldn’t have known who said what. And I know that might be a me thing, but it was a lot to keep track of when you were reading it via audio. But because we had so many POVs, we never really got into the heads of all of them. And we never really got any back story for them because it was constantly changing.
Now I can say I wasn’t able to guess the whodunit. But I didn’t know if that was because we never really get to the meat of the mystery, or if it was actually hard to solve. I don’t even remember trying to figure it out. Usually I even have a colored tab for predictions or red herrings that I have in mind. But I didn’t bookmark any in this one. I just didn’t fall into this one 100%.
I will say tho, the red herrings and the clues were crazy good! I’m not from a place where we have really bad winters or snow, so I didn’t know about most of the things that happened. I simply wouldn’t have known what a lot of that stuff was, so this really made me sit and think about the time we had that big freeze and the power went out. In a place where I wasn’t used to this, this was scary. I definitely had some flashbacks. This is a place I don’t want to experience again. Whether in real life or fiction.
Overall, I give this
