The Blurb:One girl's dead. One's in hospital. And one has a secret. Paige, Sarah, Jess and Tallulah were best friends at school. Now they've begun university and are living together at college, but it's not turning out like it's meant to. Tallulah's partying too hard, Jess is being secretive, Paige is embarrassing herself with an unrequited crush, and Sarah's struggling to keep up with her wealthier friends. One night, Sarah saves Paige from drowning in the university swimming pool. Paige can't remember why she was there, and Sarah's too afraid to say what she thought she saw. Then Jess's body is found outside the college laundry. It's not until Sarah meets the gorgeous and charming Jonny that she can tell someone her suspicions. But what really did happen that night at the pool? And what connects Paige's accident with Jess's death? As Paige starts to piece together her memories, the most terrifying question becomes clear: could it be happening again?
Here’s another book in the new and popular genre
of New Adult. It’s a great psychological thriller, the likes we generally only
see in adult fiction. Chapters are broken up between Paige, who’s had an
accident, and is recovering from a head injury in a fancy private hospital, and
Sarah, who’s dealing with the aftermath of the accident and the death of their
other friend Jess. Through Paige’s chapters we piece together what happened
before the accident and find out why she started to distance herself from her
friends. When Sarah meets Jonny, she also starts to distance herself from her
friends, and we begin to see that there may be something sinister going on.
As an adult who quite likes a good mystery and
thriller I could pick pretty early on what was happening and could see the
links between the characters, but that didn’t take away from my enjoyment of
the book. It’s the sort of book you will read in one sitting because the way
the story unravels; you need to keep going to put all of the puzzle pieces
together.
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