Lisa

Even though not every story was perfect, the ones that were made it a 5 star read. I loved Bodies are for Burning, The Strange Thing We Become, You're Not Supposed to be Here, Where Flames Burned Emerald as Grass, and I'll be Gone by Then. The others still had aspects about them that I liked. The horror was truly unsettling and smart; it really made me think. The themes in You're Not Supposed to be Here in particular will be in my mind forever. 

This felt very filler to me. Was not nearly as fun as the other two books

I'm not big on romance typically because characters don't feel real to me. This book was an exception. I really liked being alongside Piper and watching her growth, much like Alexis from Schitt's Creek. I thought Brendan was such a sweet love interest. Fox and Hannah were also such great characters and I'm so excited to read more about them in the sequel! I liked the setting and could clearly picture the sea as I was reading. 

Not my favorite in the series

A fun read and loved the illustrations! Was darker than I thought it would be 

Too many characters that all read the same, and too slow paced. I don't think I've ever liked a Megan Miranda book. 

This was so fun!! This has the parts of a thriller I love, but shrunk down. I appreciated the amount of twists and turns without being bored in the middle like a full length book. Very cleverly done. 

I haven't liked this authors previous books, but this one was so good! I loved the familiarity of the Carrie story, but with a modern twist. I loved the social commentary on it! The characters felt very flushed out, and the bullying shed light on the issues in society today regarding race. The ending was great, and scary and I really loved the buildup you got from the different mixed media elements. I don't read/like YA horrors and thrillers typically, but this one was well worth the read. 

This was an extremely slow read. Not much happens plot-wise until the end. I found the writing style to be very strange as well. The chapters were from many different perspectives but in those chapters we get both past and present points of view. Unfortunately, there is not a clear point where the flashbacks are obvious, and I found myself confused about where I was in time. I liked the missing person aspect, but when I got to the end and finally was piecing together what was happening, I really didn't like it. The direction this book took at the end was wild, and not in a good way. I'm proud of myself for finishing this and not giving up, but the end didn't have a great payoff or a jaw-dropping twist. I was thinking in the first half that I liked it better than The Guest List because of all the mystery, but it was definitely worse. But to be honest, I found The Guest List very overhyped so I'm thinking Lucy Foley just isn't for me. What I did love in this book were the short chapters, some even with cliffhangers. This made this slow book much more manageable. Longer chapters and I would have certainly DNF'd. 

I found this book very confusing, and only grew more so by the twist. It was hard to keep characters straight so it was hard for me to really enjoy it. 

I found the beginning to be too slow for my liking. A slow burn mystery with the quirkiest character I've ever followed. I feel like I may have enjoyed it more as an audiobook. I feel like I couldn't get into it as much as I had hoped, I had a hard time grasping Molly's unique narration. It picked up the last 100 pages and I enjoyed the ending, especially the epilogue! 

Just as hard to get through as the book. Also did not like the illustrations. 

I liked the concept and the writing was pretty readable, but I felt the pacing was off. The chapters from the prom were too short and from unnecessary perspectives. Not much happens at all in this book except for a messy set of affairs????? I didn't understand why Joe kept stringing 3 separate women along, and how amber was just egging it on? The ending made zero sense and was a big punch packed into a few pages. The COVID storyline also seemed like it was thrown in just for the heck of it. Overall, the synopsis made this sound like it was an obsession thriller, when it was just a very slow contemporary fiction. I didn't see (or understand) the stakes and wish the novel would commit to what type of book it was. Had it committed to a thriller/contemporary/romance instead of poorly mixing all three, I would have had a much better experience. 

Was interesting but due at the library. Would pick up again 

Loved the mix of real-world elements and Greek mythology. I really enjoyed the quest and seeing how the monsters blended into places around the country. Medusa and The Lotus Hotel were my favorites. 

Was cute, loved the idea of solving the mysteries of recreating beloved dishes. Felt a little repetitive at times 

LOVED THIS! Was so creative the way the “book within a book was”. The last 2 parts were whiplash, so many last little plot twists leading to the last page

I loved everything about this. Peter Swanson is an author that never misses for me. I loved the concept, the short chapters, the twists. The death scenes were pretty brutal and I loved how the different POVs would switch and you didn't know who would meet their end at the completion of each part.  the relation to And Then There Were None was fantastic. And I LOVED the letter element at the end that tied it all together. This was exactly the type of thriller I live for and the perfect book to get me out of a pretty bad reading slump. 

This read very juvenile, and the theme park setting I was most excited about was not built up enough

I loved this so much. So fast paced with some crazy twists, that aren't completely original but were well done. This is the perfect domestic page-turner. loved the multiple POVs and really turns the whole book on its head when Andrew NOT Nina is the evil one!

Liked the idea of the games; the beginning felt like a mix of The Selection, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I think this would be much better if it was a TV show (felt very Freeform) or if it was written for adults. The love triangle was my least favorite part of the book. It felt forced and out of place. I wanted more action, less romance. 

Beginning was good, but I felt the second half very predictable, and very far fetched. I can usually let farfetched things go in thrillers, but this got too much. 

The experiments were interesting and horrifying at first, but then they became repetitive and the writing style became too choppy 

Was very boring and the main character read way too old for being in her early 20s. 

This book destroyed me. At its core, it's about sister relationships and drug abuse. With every trigger warning imaginable it is extremely depressing and by the end I was a sobbing mess. Callie's death was devastating and because I grew so attached to Leigh and Callie it hit me even more