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The Only Survivors
A Novel
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3.9 • 356 Ratings
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- $13.99
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Publisher Description
A New York Times Bestseller
A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick
They were nine survivors. Now, a decade later, only seven remain...how long can they keep the promise made that night? Don’t miss this “gripping thriller” (CrimeReads) from the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selected and New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda.
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine—a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night.
To keep one another safe.
To hold one another accountable.
Or both.
Their annual meeting place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy and from the other survivors. She’s changed her mobile number. She’s blocked the others’ email addresses. This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But on the day of the reunion, she receives a text with an obituary attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven—and Cassidy finds herself hurling back toward the group, wild with grief—and suspicion.
Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first to notice when Amaya, the annual organizer, slips away, overwhelmed. This wouldn’t raise alarm except for the impending storm. Suddenly, they’re facing the threat of closed roads and surging waters…again. Then Amaya stops responding to her phone. After all they’ve been through, she wouldn’t willfully make them worry. Would she?
And—as they promised long ago—each survivor will do whatever he or she can do to save one another. Won’t they?
A propulsive and chilling locked-box mystery filled with the dazzling hairpin twists that are the author’s signature, The Only Survivors is New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda’s best novel yet.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Long-held secrets come to light in this exhilarating thriller from Megan Miranda. Each year, the survivors of a tragic accident that happened during a school trip reunite at a private beach resort to check in and honor those they lost. Cassidy Bent has tried her best to get past the events of that night, but when one of her fellow survivors disappears, she realizes someone is trying to discover the truth—and the truth is that one of the survivors may be a killer. Miranda has crafted an engaging thriller, full of compelling characters and breathtaking reveals. She got our hearts racing right from the beginning, with the harrowing van crash that forever changed her characters’ lives. With all the bewitching fun of a classic Agatha Christie whodunit, this is a read you won’t soon forget.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this tempestuous, emotionally wrenching tale of courage, betrayal, guilt, and just maybe forgiveness from bestseller Miranda (The Last to Vanish), Cassidy Bent is reluctantly preparing for an annual ritual: the weeklong reunion at a secluded beach house on North Carolina's Outer Banks of what were initially nine survivors of a horrific accident a decade earlier when they were high school seniors and a dozen students and teachers died after the two vans carrying them home in rain-lashed darkness from a service trip in Tennessee plunged into a river. The former classmates are about the last people any of them want to see at this point—as well as the only ones who share the secrets of what they did to walk out of the woods alive. And now their number has shrunk to seven after the apparent death by suicide of a onetime close friend of Cassidy, the second such death. The suspense and danger escalate as the narrative alternates between the present and the night of the tragedy, even if the final shocker may strike some readers as contrived. Though not among Miranda's best, this remains an evocative excursion into darkness.
Customer Reviews
The only Survivors
Superb book and story, multiple twists page turner
2.5 ⭐️
I don’t get the hype. The pact and the reason they met up every year is weird and a bit psychotic if you ask me and it was incredibly slowwww. I can’t do slow burn mysteries and had I known I wouldn’t have bought or read it.
Best one yet
I absolutely loved all the missing girls and the last house guest. While I’ve yet to read a book by MM that I don’t like, the others have always lulled a lot in the middle then pick up.
My favorites, including this one, have always kept up the pace. This is my favorite one yet! Every character was so well developed and I was so bought in the entire time!