Five Survive
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4.4 • 41 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Winner of the CrimeFest award 2022 for Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults!
AN INSTANT NUMBER 1 NYT BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!
WINNER of the CrimeFest award for Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults!
‘A blisteringly good standalone thriller.’
The Observer, YA Books of the Year, 4/12/2022
‘A thrill ride.’
The Guardian
Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break.
It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident.
There’s a sniper out there. He’s watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.
As a game of cat-and-mouse plays out, the group desperately tries to get help. Buried secrets are forced to light and tensions within the group reach deadly levels. Only one thing is for sure. Not everyone will survive the night . . .
Five Survive reached number one in the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover Besteller list, week commencing 19/12/2022.
Five Survive reached number four in the Sunday Times Children’s and YA Fiction chart, week commencing 12/12/2022.
Reviews
‘A blisteringly good standalone thriller.’
The Observer, YA Books of the Year, 4/12/2022
‘A thrill ride.’
The Guardian
'The secrets, suspense and action pushes you to read the entire book in just one sitting, proving yet again Jackson is the queen of young adult novels.'
The Independent (Children’s book of the week, 4/1/2023)
“Holly Jackson, the OG of UK YA thriller writers, has written one of her most exciting novels yet. Five Survive, my Book of the Month, is about a group of teens who set off on a trip for spring break; when they find themselves under attack, they must work out who is trying to shoot them—and why. Set over the course of just a few hours, this taut thriller will keep readers hooked.”
Charlotte Eyre, The Bookseller
Praise for the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy:
‘A taut, compulsively readable, elegantly plotted thriller' - Guardian
'Jackson ensnares readers in another highly addictive web, woven from the dark shadows of small-town secrets.’
The Observer
“As Good As Dead is a phenomenal YA mystery that deserves to be one of the books of the year and provides a stellar finale to a knockout series."
Nerd Daily
'A fiendishly-plotted mystery that kept me guessing until the very end.' – Laura Purcell, bestselling author of The Silent Companions
'There is a lot to really enjoy in this story and there is great energy to the writing, as well as some fine characterization' – Peter James, award-winning and no.1 bestselling crime thriller author of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series
'Twisty, compulsive and so, so clever' – Savannah Brown, author of The Truth About Keeping Secrets
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Six Philadelphia teenagers' spring break road trip turns deadly after they get lost in South Carolina in this nail-biting thriller from Jackson (the Good Girls' Guide to Murder series). Redford "Red" Kenny and her friends—siblings Oliver and Maddie Lavoy, Oliver's girlfriend Reyna Flores-Serrano, Arthur Moore, and Simon Yoo—borrow Simon's uncle's RV to road-trip down to Gulf Shores for spring break. The journey is pleasant, if cramped, and the teens pass the time playing card games and drinking. While navigating without cell service to an isolated rural rest stop, they make a wrong turn onto McNair Cemetery Road, where one of their tires blows out. The group is then taken hostage by an unseen sniper, who shoots out the rest of the tires, the gas tank, and a window. Via a walkie-talkie left behind by the perpetrator, the shooter claims that one of them has a secret he wants revealed and warns that "if you try to run, I will shoot." Hints of romance and a hopeful resolution help buoy unrelenting violent action, a tense atmosphere, and a melancholic tone. Reyna is Mexican; Simon's father is Korean; the rest of the cast present as white. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
This is the first book I’ve read by Holly Jackson and I can easily see why her other books have been so successful.
Some thriller/mystery books can be really hard to follow and quite predictable but I found Five Survive to be easy to follow along and the ending surprised me quite a bit. I look forward to reading more of Holly’s work.
This book was so good 5/5
The first couple hundred pages are basically just the 6 of them panicking and planning ways to evacuate the rv, but the last hundred page was such a thrill! The end ALMOST made me cry, and i’m not the type of person to cry often