The Bitter Finish
Teen & Younger Grownup Fiction About Demise and Dying; Teen & Younger Grownup Thrillers and Suspense; Teen & Younger Grownup Mysteries and Detective Tales
Random Home Books for Younger Readers
October 15, 2024
eBook, Audiobook, Hardcover
352
When a winter storm traps eight teenagers in a distant ski cabin, they discover themselves stranded with a killer—who could also be one in all their very own. From the acclaimed writer of The Ivies and Fairly Useless Queens comes a YA thriller that can make your blood run chilly.
The journey of a lifetime may be the dying of all of them.
The scholars of LA’s elite Warner Prep can’t wait for his or her Senior Tour—5 days of Instagrammable journey in one of many world’s most unique places. This isn’t your common discipline journey.
Which is why eight college students can’t imagine their dangerous luck after they find yourself on a digital detox in an remoted Colorado ski chalet. Their epic journey is panning out to be an epic bore . . . till their classmates begin dropping in a sequence of disturbing deaths. The message is obvious: this journey is not any accident.
And when a blizzard strikes, secrets and techniques are revealed, betrayals are uncovered, and survival is at stake in a race to the bitter finish.
Think about a sport of Clue crossed with the high-school slasher vibes of I Know What You Did Final Summer time. Then forged the scene with a bunch of wildly wealthy and spoiled Gen Z influencers.
That’s the backdrop of Alexa Donne’s younger grownup thriller, The Bitter Finish.
The story is a basic closed-circle thriller. A rented shuttle drops eight highschool college students from Warner Prep and their steering counselor at as remoted mountain cabin in Colorado. The kids are there for a digital detox retreat on the request of their dad and mom (or so the reader is led to imagine). They forfeit their cell telephones. There isn’t a TV and no web. Nothing however snow and mountain-fresh air. Oh, and homicide.
The killings begin within the early hours after drunken video games of “Oh the Humanity” (Donne’s model of Playing cards In opposition to Humanity) and “By no means Have I Ever” the primary night time. The characters throw down playing cards and make backstabbing claims that floor previous rivalries and betrayals from a celebration all of them attended three years earlier than.
The Bitter Finish is a reminder to watch out who you fake to be
and what firm you retain…on-line and off.
(from Alexa Donne to the reader at first of the ebook)
Donne tells the thriller in two timelines. We learn flashbacks of the get together from every teen within the third particular person. Within the current, nevertheless, we see the occasions unfold by way of the eyes of solely three of the kids: Willa, Delaney, and Piper. Instantly, the excessive schoolers are stranded with out energy, with out grownup supervision, and with out a clue as to why they’re all there. The physique depend rises.
This story actually makes you imagine that any of the characters might be the killer. They’re, merely put, that unlikeable. Or maybe that flawed. The kids all have motive for violence, and you may see them falling aside in entrance of one another.
Donne writes a thriller with loads of bitterness, duplicity, and page-turning drama.
That may be the place this story fell brief for me. I like heroes in my tales. I don’t thoughts twists or cliffhangers. Epic drama? I’m right here for it. However perhaps I don’t like teenage drama as a lot as I believed I’d earlier than I picked up this ebook. It was tough for me to discover a character to root for on this story.
The Bitter Finish is a twisty thriller that may be a good match for any reader who’s itching for a fast-paced, younger grownup/teen homicide thriller to maintain them firm this winter.
