Kill Creatures
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Wilder Girls comes another dark thriller about jealousy, desire, and revenge, with a twist ending that needs to be talked about—hailed as “an ode to the knife-sharp edges of teenage friendship” (Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning).
Last year, Nan’s three best friends ventured into the canyons near their small town and never returned. Now one of them is back, and Nan can’t believe it…because she’s the one who killed them.
A YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS BOOK OF THE YEAR • A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Last summer, Luce, Edie, Jane, and Nan took a boat out for one final swim in the river. It was a perfect summer night.
But the only one who returned that night was Nan. Edie, Jane, and Luce disappeared, and Nan’s story has always been the same: She has no idea what happened. The girls went ahead, and it was as though they vanished into thin air.
Now, one year later, all of Saltcedar has gathered at the river for a memorial. Nan even recreated the outfit she wore that fateful day last summer. And when Luce climbs out of the water, no one is more surprised than Nan.
Because Nan killed her. Right before she killed Edie and Jane.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A missing Utah teen resurfaces to the surprise of her murderer in this gleefully twisted psychological thriller from Power (Burn Our Bodies Down). It's been a year since Nan Carver's best friends—Edie, Jane, and Luce—vanished during a moonlit trip into Saltcedar Canyon. Many think someone abducted the trio, but Nan knows the truth; though she told everyone she stayed with the boat while the girls went hiking, she actually accompanied them to a secret, fathomless swimming hole, where she bashed in Luce's head before drowning Jane and Edie. Nan is attending a lakeside vigil on the anniversary of the alleged disappearance when boaters find Luce floating in the water, alive but with no recollection of what happened or where she's been. A panicked Nan struggles to appear supportive of Luce and the newly reopened police investigation while scrambling to obscure the facts—or at least the facts as Nan remembers them. Power's tale unfolds via Nan's increasingly troubled—and troubling—first-person-present narration, and flashbacks provide context and proffer clues surrounding the event. Frantic pacing catapults readers past occasional plotting pitfalls while fostering anxiety and unease. All characters cue as white. Ages 14–up.
