Week 4 Review: Gardenia

From Goodreads:
Seventeen-year-old Ivy Erickson has one month, twenty-seven days, four hours, fifty-nine minutes, and two seconds to live.

Ever since she was a child, Ivy has been able to see countdown clocks over everyone's heads indicating how long before they will die. She can't do anything about anyone else’s, nor can she do anything about her own, which will hit the zero hour before she even graduates high school.

A life cut short is tragic, but Ivy does her best to make the most of it. She struggles emotionally with her deep love for on-again, off-again boyfriend Myers Patripski. She struggles financially, working outside of school to help her mom and her sister. And she struggles to cope with the murder of her best friend, another life she couldn't save. Vanessa Donovan was killed in the woods, and everyone in town believes Ivy had something to do with it.

Then more girls start disappearing. Ivy tries to put her own life in order as she pieces together the truth of who ended Vanessa's. To save lives and for her own sanity.

The clock is always ticking. And Ivy's only hope is to expose the truth before it runs out completely.

My Review:
This was a fantastic read! I loved her ability to see how long a person has left to live, and how that was affecting her life-that her best friend died, and because she knew the number, well, what she said had her looking like she knew who the killer was. Which was not a fun position to be in! 

Ivy's life is pretty terrible. She has this ability to see a countdown of how many days a person has left to live, including herself. And all she wants to do in the time that she has left is figure out who killed her best fiend. Watching her do so was really entertaining.

I loved this mix of genres we had going on. Of course there was the paranormal aspect with her ability. There's the mystery with her best friend's death and the disappearances of these other girls. And there's a bit of romance, with her on and off again boyfriend Myers. It all worked really well together and I couldn't put it down! 

Oh, but that ending, that reveal of the killer? That was just awful! I wasn't expecting all those pieces to come together that way, but the clues were there, and I really enjoyed how it all played out! It was an excellent end to this book and mystery! 

This was a really great read, and I can't wait to read more by Kelsey Sutton! 

Author: Kelsey Sutton
Read: January 28th, 2022
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2022 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: February 28th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars