Quick Stats
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 1.75 stars
Plot: 1.5/5
Characters: 2/5
Setting: 2/5
Writing: 2/5
Special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
Suite Life on Deck meets One of Us Is Lying in Diana Urban’s newest YA mystery.
That premise was so interesting to me. I loved the idea of it, but the execution did not work. There is no murder in this murder mystery until page 170, 45% of the way through. And almost everything before that point does not matter. It was painful to get through.
I went in here expecting a high stakes twisty murder mystery and I got 20 year old acting like they’re 14 fighting over boys and petty relationship and friendship drama that was way too dramatic. It’s 170 pages of woe is me my best friend and boyfriend betrayed me for each other boohoo. Until—finally—a murder! Except I was so sick of the main character at this point that I would not have cared if she ended up going down for it. I also did not care about the murdered girl. Or any of the subsequent murdered people. Actually, I did not care about a single character in this book.
This entire book was painful to read, the investigation was so stupid and pointless. “Obviously it wasn’t x character.” With no reason other than “because it couldn’t have been”.
The last 50 pages were kind of interesting to read, but honestly that’s the extent of it.
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 1.75 stars
Plot: 1.5/5
Characters: 2/5
Setting: 2/5
Writing: 2/5
Special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
Suite Life on Deck meets One of Us Is Lying in Diana Urban’s newest YA mystery.
That premise was so interesting to me. I loved the idea of it, but the execution did not work. There is no murder in this murder mystery until page 170, 45% of the way through. And almost everything before that point does not matter. It was painful to get through.
I went in here expecting a high stakes twisty murder mystery and I got 20 year old acting like they’re 14 fighting over boys and petty relationship and friendship drama that was way too dramatic. It’s 170 pages of woe is me my best friend and boyfriend betrayed me for each other boohoo. Until—finally—a murder! Except I was so sick of the main character at this point that I would not have cared if she ended up going down for it. I also did not care about the murdered girl. Or any of the subsequent murdered people. Actually, I did not care about a single character in this book.
This entire book was painful to read, the investigation was so stupid and pointless. “Obviously it wasn’t x character.” With no reason other than “because it couldn’t have been”.
The last 50 pages were kind of interesting to read, but honestly that’s the extent of it.