Five Survive
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4.4 • 182 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.
Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.
Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer.
When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead.
With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. Not all of them will survive the night. . . .
With edge-of-your-seat tension and a gripping mystery, Holly Jackson has written another instant classic!
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
4 stars
4.5 stars… this was a quick read, indeed. I took off .5 stars simply because it was sometimes a bit difficult to understand the main characters thought patterns and such.
I also absolutely hated Oliver… the main character’s best friend’s brother. While he started out okay, by the end of the book - I was hoping for his demise lol.
Anyways, I do really like this author and the first two books in the ‘good girls guide to murder’ (I didn’t read the last one yet) and this one. I look forward to reading more by her in the future.
Five Survive
WOW!! Very intense to the end. I love the trilogy of AGGGTM but this was, dare I say, better. Just WOW!! I hope to find more of these in the works.
Loved!!
This book was definitely a page turner! I couldn’t put it down!! I loved the twist! Definitely recommend if you like books with plot twist and you are a Holly Jackson fan!