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A review by phidelia
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
My first BR ever!! (With Bryana)
***
I really struggled to get into this book. The pacing wasn't the best initially, and, I had considerably high hopes for this after reading AGGGTM series, and it was taking a bit of getting used to Red after seeing an ambitious Pip earlier. Overall, it was a cozy-fun-thriller book. Nothing is much of a "mystery" here. There were few limited cues given to the reader, and nothing goes beyond this realm at all.
Initially, it's a bit way too slow- and it mainly revolves around the character building and their back-stories. I liked how the author builds the tension of being stuck in the RV (although it's not an entirely new concept)- and how extremely fast-paced throughout that part of the book. However, towards the end, all of it goes poof and cue the death (it isn't obvious from the title?); and the author pulls-some-random-strings-together (which was incredibly disappointing -putting it mildly- this is why I'm not much into pure thriller- ). I was a bit worried on who would die, as I liked seeing through Red's perspective (the unreliable narrator), despite it being a bit difficult at the start, like I earlier mentioned.
That's all about it.
***
I really struggled to get into this book. The pacing wasn't the best initially, and, I had considerably high hopes for this after reading AGGGTM series, and it was taking a bit of getting used to Red after seeing an ambitious Pip earlier. Overall, it was a cozy-fun-thriller book. Nothing is much of a "mystery" here. There were few limited cues given to the reader, and nothing goes beyond this realm at all.
Initially, it's a bit way too slow- and it mainly revolves around the character building and their back-stories. I liked how the author builds the tension of being stuck in the RV (although it's not an entirely new concept)- and how extremely fast-paced throughout that part of the book. However, towards the end, all of it goes poof and cue the death (it isn't obvious from the title?); and the author pulls-some-random-strings-together (which was incredibly disappointing -putting it mildly- this is why I'm not much into pure thriller- ). I was a bit worried on who would die, as I liked seeing through Red's perspective (the unreliable narrator), despite it being a bit difficult at the start, like I earlier mentioned.
That's all about it.