The Bachelorette Party
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A SheReads Most Anticipated Thriller!
A true crime devotee gets more than she bargained for at her killer bachelorette party.
Everything seems to be going well for Alex—she has her dream job as an intern on a popular investigative news program and is engaged to a man who is almost too perfect. Now her best friends are taking her on a surprise bachelorette weekend planned with Alex’s unusual set of interests in mind: her obsession with the famous 666 Killer.
Alex and her friends get a thrill out of staying at the allegedly haunted hunting lodge in the Catskill mountains where a serial killer once stabbed his victim and wrote 666 on the walls in her blood. Though getting snowed in by a blizzard wasn’t part of the plan, the three girls make the most of their celebration. Then Alex wakes up to find her friends have vanished, blood spattered all over their sleeping bags and on her hands. With no idea what happened, Alex worries the decade-old murder has come back to haunt them and she is the one to blame. Her recent prison interview with the 666 Killer seems to have stirred up past demons, throwing her friends into danger. The prisoner has always maintained his innocence, claiming the “real killer” was still out there. Has the true 666 Killer finally returned? Or has the convict been scheming from his jail cell? Cut off from outside help, Alex must rely on her years of following true crime stories to try to solve the case and save her friends. But even she does not see the final, staggering twist coming, and the shocking truth just might kill her.
This fast-paced psychological thriller from the author of Little Black Lies is sure to keep readers up all night.
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Two friends stage an ironic bachelorette party for their friend who's obsessed with exonerating a convicted killer in this implausible outing from Block (Girl Overboard). After conducting a prison interview with Eric Myers, who's serving time for the decade-old "666 Killings," budding journalist Alex Conley has come to believe he's innocent. Days before Alex's wedding, her friends—actor Melody and pro basketball player Lainey—surprise her with a trip to the abandoned Catskills cabin where the killings took place. The friends settle in for a night of drinking and smoking weed, and then Alex passes out; hours later, she awakens to find Melody and Lainey missing, with blood smeared on their sleeping bags and her hands. Cut off from the outside world thanks to a malfunctioning car and a lack of cell service, Alex searches for answers on her own. From there, Block intercuts Alex's current investigation with flashbacks chronicling her crusade to free Myers. Unfortunately, Myers is the only character drawn with any nuance—everyone else, especially Alex's too-good-to-be-true fiancé, are mere ciphers—and the contrived plot hits the skids well before its far-fetched denouement. This misses the mark.
Customer Reviews
Worth the time
But, if start to feel some instinct telling you the ending, you’re right. I was.