Five Survive

I don’t even know where to begin but firstly thanks to Netgalley for sending me an early ebook copy of this bc I was honestly dying to get my hands on it.
After the exceptional AGGGTM trilogy I had very high expectations to the point where I was worried this book wouldn’t live up to them but damn I don’t know why I was worried. This book was everything I wanted. I was gripped from the very beginning. The concept of the book itself was very promising and Holly Jackson never misses. She has such a brilliant way of writing where she quite literally and effortlessly captures your entire attention.
The plot was brilliant but the plot twists????? I never saw anything coming (as I never do with a Holly Jackson book) and as usual, all the theories I had were entirely wrong and it was something I’d not even thought of.
I have to say, this book was probably a lot more intense than AGGGTM and those were pretty intense and although it took me a little bit of time getting used to all the characters, I absolutely loved how in-depth we found out about each one of the six friends.
Also I thought AGGGTM was going to be a stand-alone but it turned into a trilogy so I’m wondering if this is also going to have a sequel too?? Honestly though, I’d love anything Holly Jackson writes. She has yet to write a book that didn’t have me awake at odd hours, my eyes glued to the pages.

Here we have another case of 'I accused the correct person, but made the most outrageous accusations and connected my own dots that definitely were not there.'

From the very first chapter, the story was eerie and suspenseful, the confinement of the rv setting really helped portray the intensity, coupled with the vague, distracted character of Red.

Whilst Red and Oliver were both strongly developed characters, there wasn't as much focus on the other friends in the rv and at times I forgot who was who, until the story reached the peak and the characters had more individual roles.

The story was fast paced, and well plotted, the most insignifant seeming details had huge importance in the story and I loved that. There were multiple twists that I didn't expect that made the book more fun.

Overall, this was one of the most well crafted thrillers I have read in a while, and cannot wait to own a copy and force everyone I know to also read it.