Obviously the title is a rip-off from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None - and that is where the similarities start and end I’m afraid. This is the type of book that makes me so sad that it was published and had valuable resources wasted upon it. But not too many, because they clearly didn’t bother to run this through an editor. It also seriously makes me doubt my writing when this trash fire can get published but I can’t. I digress.
“Let's not die today. Not even to make things easier for our parents. When a building collapses around five teenagers--and they just barely escape--they know something strange is going on. Little by little, the group pieces together a theory: Their parents are working together to kill them all. Is it true? And if so, how did their parents come together--and why? And, most importantly, how can the five of them work together to save themselves?”
Interesting premise, but you get a better story from the synopsis above than from the 400+ page book. I encourage you to read this Goodreads review if you need any more convincing. The review is ALSO more entertaining than the book.
The writing is extremely difficult to read. The main character is one run-on sentence and the other one is writing in second person. What? Then the plot is meandering and the characters are just annoying as all hell. There were two that were more tolerable than the others but they really didn’t fill enough of the 400+ pages to make it worthwhile.
This was also another New York book. Why does every New York book need to have a scene at Coney Island? Just a pet peeve that I could let pass if every single other part of this book didn’t drive me up a wall. I read the whole thing in a 3-hour speed run just hoping, praying, and pleading for it to get better. It didn’t. I stared in wide-eyed disbelief for 3 hours. My eyes, brain, and heart hurt when it was over. The best part of this book was the ending - the sweet release I felt after shutting it and chucking it (gently) away from me was like a band aid for my grievously wounded and gravely disappointed soul. Oh and maybe the cover. The cover is nice.
1/5 stars. I finished it. I need to stop finishing books that are torturous to their readers.
Happy reading (of other material),
Holly
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