The quick cut: A group of friends are made suspects when one of them is pushed out a window to his death one night. Drama ensues as everyone tries to figure out who did it.
A real review:
Thank you to Inkyard Press for providing the arc for an honest review.
Everyone has seen that group of close knit friends who do everything together. They spend so much time around one another that it can be hard to imagine them individually anymore. For this story centered around six friends, that was true until one of them is pushed out a window to their death.
Jesse and Savana have known each other since they were kids. So when one night Jesse texts Savana to join him at a local warehouse, she goes without thinking about and arrives in time to see someone dead on the scene. It's the initiating moment that starts a series of questions. What happened that night and why was one of them killed?
This book is definitely faster paced, but it has a somewhat complex setup. Part one is from before incident and part two is after. The chapters alternate between Savana and Jesse narrating. At first, you as the reader don't know who died and are left to figure out who. Then the second half you spend trying to figure out who killed the person who died.
All the elements are there to be an amazing story, but by the end I found all the characters so unlikeable that I sort of hoped they all burned. So many lies and considering the person who was murdered was a truly awful individual - the world was better without them. No one in this story didn't do terrible things for their own reasons.
Of all the characters, Savana is the easiest to like. She came across as naive and easy to manipulate though. By the end she starts to think for herself, but she was still clueless as ever about who committed the crime. Overall, she just felt like a very flat character.
A mystery with unlikeable characters.
My rating: 3.5 out of 5