Side note: I can’t help but wonder how good it could have been if it hadn’t been YA. I still rate it well and would recommend it to everyone. All in all, I enjoyed this book, and though it had some points I didn’t love. Realistically it was the reason for it all. In the beginning I thought Jim’s death was a veiled side story, one that may not ever be talked about properly, but it wasn’t that at all. I love Marisha Pessl’s work, and this book was no exception. But this book was exactly what it needed to be. The characters were hard to relate to, and Kip… Kip drove me nuts. I had mixed feelings going into the end of the book, but I genuinely enjoyed it. If only someone had told me that before, about life…” This is perfect. "A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense." ( Bustle ) "You wont be able to stop reading until the mystery is unraveled." (Refinery29)
"Beautifully creepy." ( The New York Times ) Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers.and at life.Ī Chicago Public Library best book of the year. Blithely, he announces the impossible: Time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can be removed only if the former friends make the harshest of decisions.
Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft - the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world - hoping she'll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim's death.īut as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she's never going to know what really happened. Then the shocking death of Jim - their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend - changed everything. Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. "A thriller that will grip readers from the start." ( Hypable) Who would you choose?įrom the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film comes an absorbing psychological suspense thriller in which fears are physical and memories come alive. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. "A 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read." (Melissa Albert, New York Times best-selling author of The Hazel World )įive friends.
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