WoW: Nothing Bad Happens Here by Rachel Ekstrom Courage

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine!

This darkly feminist YA thriller follows new girl Lucia, who falls in with a group of glamorous girls while spending the summer on Nantucket. But her new friends have a dangerous secret—and they’ll do anything to get revenge on the people who have wronged them.

Seventeen-year-old Lucia is spending the summer on Nantucket with her mom and her mom’s ridiculously wealthy new boyfriend, Todd. She’s bored and lonely and spends her days working a minimum-wage job serving tourists at a milkshake shop while her mother loses herself in a haze of Chardonnay.

Everything changes for Lucia when she meets Selah and her pack of devil-may-care besties—beautiful, chaotic, and a little dangerous—who hop from bonfire beach parties to champagne-soaked soirees at some of the island’s most exclusive hotspots. 

But as Lucia becomes a part of their shimmering world, breaking hearts and wreaking havoc on this elite island community, she realizes that her new friends have a shocking secret… and an agenda that is darker and more violent than anything she could have imagined.

Published by: Delacorte Press
Expected Publication: April 22, 2025

Why I’m Waiting: So this is a mystery/thriller, but it’s also supposed to have like a touch of supernatural according to an author who blurbed it? And this cover? I need this like yesterday. Also, like I NEVER want to end up on Nantucket. It’s supposed to be like some cool island or beach or something, but every time I’ve read about it being in a book it’s always something weird or bad af lol

What about you? Will you read this? Do you like the cover? Let me know in the comments!