This Is Where We Die
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Eight friends went on a trip. Only six made it out alive. Now a killer has one night to make sure the survivors pay for what they did . . . so that zero make it out alive. From the author of Perfect Little Monsters comes another incredible twisty thriller.
Sadie, Will, Isla, Anthony, Emily, and Charlie are survivors. They were the six (out of eight) to return from a ski holiday turned nightmare two years ago. Although… nobody knows exactly what happened; the details hushed up via the wealth and connections of Sadie’s rich parents.
When an exclusive private island with a mansion for rent goes viral on social media, their graduating class persuades Sadie to rent it for the weekend. The six arrive first by helicopter and wait for the rest of their classmates to join them by boat the next day.
But nobody ever comes.
Cut off from the rest of the world with no cell service and no means off the island, paranoia and terror mount as they start to be picked off one by one by an unseen killer. Their past has finally caught up with them, and they’ll need to figure out who is killing them before they all wind up dead.
"A page-turner that will leave the reader wondering if the ending was preventable or inevitable." -Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this cutting thriller from He (Perfect Little Monsters), eight friends on a skiing trip become trapped in a shelter following an avalanche. Eighteen months later, the six survivors—Ant, Charlie, Emily, Isla, Sadie, and Will—eagerly await their high school graduation. Not only does it herald an era of transition, but they hope it will finally free them from the traumatic memories of the incident. When they learn that a private island south of Martha's Vineyard is available for rent, they plan to throw an epic party as a last hurrah. Though they invite their whole class, the friends arrive a day early, each with their own goals for the weekend: Ant and Will contemplate potential hookups, Emily determines to confess her feelings for Ant, and Charlie schemes to force confessions about what happened on their ski trip for blackmail material. But after one of them suddenly dies, the group's members begins to turn on one another. Themes of revenge, heightened by passionate emotion and complex relationship dynamics, contribute to the novel's mounting tension and the mostly white-cued characters' increasing paranoia, while a secluded island setting enhances the claustrophobic atmosphere. Ages 14–up.
