Week 40 Review: The Only Survivors

From Goodreads:

From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and "master of suspense, Megan Miranda" (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.

Seven hours in the past. Seven days in the present. Seven survivors remaining. Who would you save?

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine—a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night.

To keep one another safe.

To hold one another accountable.

Or both.

Their annual meeting place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy and from the other survivors. She's changed her mobile number. She's blocked the others' email addresses. This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But on the day of the reunion, she receives a text with an obituary attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven—and Cassidy finds herself hurling back toward the group, wild with grief—and suspicion.

Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first to notice when Amaya, the annual organizer, slips away, overwhelmed. This wouldn't raise alarm except for the impending storm. Suddenly, they're facing the threat of closed roads and surging waters…again. Then Amaya stops responding to her phone. After all they've been through, she wouldn’t willfully make them worry. Would she?

And—as they promised long ago—each survivor will do whatever he or she can do to save one another. Won't they?

A propulsive and chilling locked-box mystery filled with the dazzling hairpin twists that are the author's signature, The Only Survivors is New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda's best novel yet.

My Review:
Oh, I loved reading this book! 2023 really seems to be the year for my reading Megan Miranda books, and I loved this latest one, the mystery of the event that they survived, and what was going on now when they were reunited, yeah, it was so great! 

I really enjoyed the way that this book was told, with the chapters in the past, that slowly counted back to the accident. So you know where they go, and you're slowly seeing how they got to that point, from the different perspectives. And that final one, oh, that was so unexpected! 

These people have all been bonded together after the accident, but it's not something that they enjoy, and that Cassidy doesn't want to be a part of, until she learns of the death of another of their members, which brings her back into the fold.

And oh, there were secrets and reveals right to the end! Once all the pieces came together, yeah, it was just so epic! Honestly, I thought that the isolated setting of Outer Banks in that storm, it would've gone down there, but it didn't. Well, it certainly raised the tensions and suspicions! I just loved how it worked out! 

Loved reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by Megan Miranda! 

Author: Megan Miranda
Read: October 5th, 2023
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded fantastic, and it's a SAC 2023 Book! 
Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books
Published: April 11th 2023

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