We Won't All Survive
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the bestselling author of I Am Still Alive comes a new nail-biter that's part survival story, part murder mystery, and all thriller—perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson!
Two years ago, Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that day: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings that the sweet boy next door was anything but.
So when billionaire turned TV host Damien Dare recruits Mercy to compete on his new survivalist reality show, she can’t turn down a chance at the whopping cash prize that could send her sister to college. But when she and the other contestants arrive at the off-grid location, something isn’t right. The set is empty. The gates close without warning, trapping them inside. And then one of them turns up dead. What appeared at first to be a tragic accident quickly transforms as more contestants start dropping like flies. With time and resources running low, surviving this show takes on a whole new meaning. Mercy must figure out who to trust. Before she’s next.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This intense, uneven mystery by Marshall (The Narrow) centers eight young adults struggling to escape a desert ghost town. Eighteen-year-old Mercy Gray is recruited by billionaire tech magnate–turned–TV host Damien Dare to compete in a survivalist reality show that follows strangers stranded in defunct mining town Landry's Gap. If the contestants can withstand six weeks in the town's conditions—modified to test their tenacity, ingenuity, and physical limits—they'll each win $100,000. The participants quickly learn that each of them has experienced a traumatic event: Mercy's quick action during a mall shooting a year ago, for example, saved multiple lives but left her with a bullet fragment in her back and mounting medical debt. Panic sets in when, upon the group's arrival at Landry's Gap, no one is there to meet them. Then the gate to the 12-foot, razor wire–topped chain-link fence that surrounds the town slams closed, trapping them inside; things take an even more frightening turn when one of the group is found dead, and all signs point to murder. High-adrenaline action sequences feel somewhat deflated by abrupt transitions and disjointed plotting, but readers will rally behind courageous, vulnerable Mercy and her steadfast first-person narration. The characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 14–up.
