The Last to Die
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3.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
What started as a game turns into something much darker in this fast-paced YA thriller with a plot to die for, perfect for fans of Natasha Preston and Hannah Jayne
Harper Jacobs and her friends are just looking for some fun when they decide to start breaking into one another's houses. It's enough to give them a rush, and it's pretty harmless since they all promise not to take anything that can't be replaced. But when they target the home of a classmate, it crosses a line, and one of the group turns up dead.
Harper needs to figure out what's happening fast…or else she might be next.
Gripping and ominous The Last to Die is perfect for readers looking for:
•unputdownable teen thrillers
•dark young adult mystery books
•high-stakes plot and moody setting
•dynamic, pitch-perfect writing
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Six high school students plan and carry out robberies of each other's homes for kicks in Garrett's debut novel. Narrator Harper Jacobs, 16, is bright, athletic, sarcastic, and bored. She and five wealthy friends her boyfriend Gin, as well as Sarah, Alex, Benji, and Paisley take turns robbing one another's homes, though they establish ground rules from the start, designed to limit their actions to mostly harmless mischief ("we wouldn't steal anything that insurance and an AMEX card couldn't replace"). When Alex suggests burgling the home of a student outside their group, things quickly go wrong, and Harper realizes that it's no longer a game. The decision to end the game becomes moot after Sarah dies from an overdose, but is it suicide, an accident, or murder? Garrett's teens are realistically (if one-dimensionally) self-involved, though Harper and some of the others have flashes of insight that point toward their evolving maturity as things spiral out of control. A second death paves the way to an unexpected conclusion in this quick-moving thriller. Ages 14 up.
