Week 4 Review: Tender Beasts

From Goodreads:

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother's name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.

Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer.

With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family's next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious "Take care of Dom."

The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny…and seemingly a dangerous one, if found guilty of his second-degree murder charge. Still, Sunny is determined to fulfill her mother's dying wish. But when a classmate is gruesomely murdered, and Sunny finds her brother with blood on his hands, her mother's simple request becomes a lot more complicated. Dom swears he's innocent, and although Sunny isn't sure she believes him, she takes it upon herself to look into the murder—made all the more urgent by the discovery of another body. And another.

As Sunny and Dom work together to track down the culprit, Sunny realizes her other siblings have their own dark secrets. Soon she may have to preserve the family she's always loved or protect the brother she barely knows—and risk losing everything her mother worked so hard to build.

My Review:
I absolutely loved reading this book! This is Liselle Sambury's 2nd published YA horror novel, and man, it was so amazing to read! The premise had me hooked, and I needed to keep turning the pages, to see where this story would go! 

This story really was one of family secrets, the ones that they were keeping from the world, and the ones they were keeping from themselves. I wanted to know every single one, because I'm nosy and curious like that, and oh, there were some pretty shocking ones! 

That there all these murders as the school that their family set up makes things all the more complicated, and I had such a great time watching Sunny deal with it all. And oh, the places that this story went were so fantastic! 

I absolutely loved seeing how this story wrapped up, the way the threads were tied together was really well done and so very clever! Where we left these characters, too, was really good, I'm really satisfied with that ending, and how it closed off this story! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Liselle Sambury! 

Author: Liselle Sambury 
Read: January 20th, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2024 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Expected Publication: February 27th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars