A Good Mystery

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I think I would actually rate this book as 3.5 stars. It was well written and a good mystery, I just don’t think it lived up to my expectations. I really enjoyed the mystery behind the massacre at a summer camp that left Sloan and Cherry the lone survivors. We mainly follow Sloan as she’s still trying to process the events of the summer. Is she just being paranoid as she processes, or is there some bigger picture to what happened? Is Cherry involved, or her mom? Are Sloan’s biological parents somehow involved? I was intrigued by the mystery as Sloan tried to regain her memories from that night and piece together why it happened. However, the book wasn’t as thrilling as I thought it would be. It was fairly slow for the most part. I was expecting something similar to Sleepaway Camp or Friday the 13th, as the book was described. The camp massacre was similar to those movies, but we don’t get very much story of the massacre. The story takes place months after the massacre, with the massacre being told only a little bit through flashbacks of Sloan’s. It became a little bit more thrilling when it was discovered that the people behind the massacre were part of a cult, trying to complete a ritual to save the world. A lot of scenes seemed to drag on, so I just wish there had been more with the massacre to make the book more of a thriller. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the ending is one of those endings that leaves you guessing, so you have to decide for yourself what’s true. It does make the book a little bit more chilling, but personally I like everything to be fully explained with complete closure.