The Quick Cut: Six friends find themselves being hunted after killing a man a year earlier and hiding it.
A Real Review: We all keep secrets on some level, but some are more dangerous than others. The most toxic ones can change who you are, especially if they're left hidden. In this thriller, six friends find out what secrets can do when they keep one together. Six friends went on a trip for the most monotonous of reasons: as they all started to truly grow up and begin planning their own families, this group was going to spend some time together. Like the good old days. Except when the unanticipated occurs and the group is attacked, they end up killing a man and hiding it. That is, until a year later people start dying again. Who's killing them off and what is their connection to the death before? This book has a lot of different angles: the friends committing a terrible crime, a serial killer, and seeing the group fall apart. It should have cumulatively lead to a strong story, but for whatever reason I could not emotionally connect to it. Things go horribly awry (in a very horror flick way) and I didn't care much. The narrator throughout the story is a guy named Matt. He from the start feels disconnected a bit and sort of questioning certain aspects of life. Throughout the book he is the one searching for the truth the most. I just wanted him to be more interesting. Overall, he seemed fairly bland as a character. If I was supposed to care, he needed more color. A somewhat predictable and bland thriller. My rating: 3.5 out of 5