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Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I really enjoyed this book and have read several by this author
I had a little trouble at the start of this book getting used to the writing style of the author. I'm not sure why that was, I have read Lisa Jackson in the past and don't remember a problem. However, that was soon remedied and it was off to the races.
The book is told is two parts. The present and twenty years before when in the time frame of only a couple of days, 2 female camp counselors, a young stable guy who cares for the horses and an escaped killer all disappear. Due to this, Camp Horseshoe is shut down and never opened again. The nights in question are visited several times throughout the book with each character telling just a little bit of what they remember. Of course, it's just enough for the reader to come up with suspect after suspect while reading this phenomenal read.
The ending is shocking and provides a method of using a knife that I have never heard of. And, I read a lot of thrillers and mysteries! A book worthy of your TBR pile that you should most definitely check out.
Huge thanks to Kensington Books for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
Love this writer, but was not as thrilled with this book as I have been with the others. Looking forward to the next one!
I quite enjoyable this book but it was very long and drawn out. Bit of a twist at the end but fairly predictable.
I liked the sound of this book but unfortunately for me it didn't deliver, I didn't like the characters and felt it was full of cliches and I find if I don't connect with or find the characters realistic I can't really care what happens to them .Disappointed to give the book a review that is not a good one, I don't like doing it but have to be truthful.I hope others think I am wrong and enjoy this book, but it wasn't for me.Thanks to netgalley and the Publisher for an ARC in return for an honest review.
A breathtaking novel that is sure to keep you guessing until the last page is swiped! It has been a while since my last read from this author, but after a few pages in I was quickly reminded why I enjoy her books so much... her trademark twists and turns took over and I was instantly addicted, and taken on one heck of a literary escape!! Highly recommend this one, it's sure to have your spine tingling from the very first chapter!!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this title.
Stars 3 .75
I know that is a funny number and I will tell you why. Lisa Jackson has way to many characters in this book and between the past and the present I found myself getting lost and unable to remember who was who and who did what and who slept with whom. Each character alive or dead seems to have a chapter which is great expect for there are over 20 characters in this book.
I would have loved the mystery but I couldn't seem to keep track of people which I have found in other Lisa Jackson books.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance Copy of the book
You will pay by Lisa Jackson was a good read, It kept you guessing until the very end. Throwing so many red herrings that it was impossible to decipher the good from the bad.
Everyone at camp Horseshoe has something to hide, Secrets muddy the water obscuring the real culprits behind a web of lies and half truths.
All and sundry at the camp are guilty of something and my brain was working overtime trying to process just what.
This story is skillfully written and the author has managed to blend the past and present brilliantly.
You will Pay flows so seamlessly that you don't notice the leaps from the past till real-time.
The past part of the story takes place twenty years earlier when all our young adults are councillors at Camp horseshoe.
During this time Two of the councillors go missing Elle & Monica but no bodies are ever found.
There is also the added mystery of Dustin who also works at the camp but just up and vanishes after cashing his paycheck and as if that's not enough there's also the small matter of an escaped convict on the loose.
The camp is closed, everyone leaves to continue with their lives, The case goes cold.
fast-forward twenty years and skeletal remains are discovered on the beach.
Lucas once a camp counsellor and son to the owner of the camp is now a deputy.
As everyone is recalled for questioning this time around secrets are not staying buried.
I was playing Miss Marple till the final chapter and some things I'd kind of had a hunch, others I was like Oh My Giddy Aunt, Well I never.
All in all, this was an enthralling easy read that ticked all my boxes and then some.
You will Pay gets a big thumbs up from me.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley who supplied me with an advanced reader copy.
All opinions are my own.
I loved this book!. I didn't want to put it down. I actually feel asleep holding my kindle a few times:) It took me back to a magical time in my life- summer camp. The mystery was spooky and fun. I enjoyed seeing what happened to everyone after they grew up and how they came together to solve the 20 year question of what happened to the 4 people that went missing that summer. A jawbone has been found by a local boy, which missing person does it belong to? The truth will out. Highly recommend this book.
I read my first Lisa Jackson book a few years ago and have consistently loved them since. She is so good at creating characters and atmosphere. This was a brilliant fast paced thrillers which will delight her fans and new readers alike.
You Will Pay is the latest mystery novel by Lisa Jackson. Camp Horseshoe is a religious summer camp run by the preacher Jeremiah and his wife Naomi. The camp shuts down after one fateful night when two teen counselors Ellie and Monica disappear and another is seriously injured. After twenty years the remains of a body is discovered and all the counselors get back together to get their stories straight. The book goes back and forth between the present and past unfolding the secrets the teenagers held all those years ago. What really happened that night ? Was it a prank that went bad or did the two girls fall victim to a convict who escaped prison nearby?
I like Lisa Jackson but was a little disappointed in this book. The book is fast paced but felt rushed. It did have surprise ending but the characters were not developed or very likable. Overall I would rate it 3 stars and even though the story was complete it felt unfinished.
Many thanks to the publisher & NetGalley for this sample copy in exchange for my honest and fair review.
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Another great read by Lisa Jackson. Lots of twist and turns and keeps you guessing. I will recommend this to all my mystery readers
A marvelous book full of so many twists, turns, ups and downs it'll make you dizzy... and reaching for the "safety" bag. The backup story is every bit as good as the future into which it leads, because it gives you the opportunity to connect with these characters in a very personal way... almost like watching yourself grow out of teen angst and into adult responsibility. Tense, believable and filled to the brim with squirm-in-your-seat anxiety. Highly recommended.
With a title like, You Will Pay, a cover like that and Lisa Jackson as the author, I was ready for a really good thriller. A story reminiscent of I Know What You Did Last Summer or something. There were a lot of characters and storylines that had me intrigued, especially with the build-up. But, the reveals and character actions toward the end didn't add up. I didn't get their motivations for revenge or even for secrets and the "You will pay" fizzled. I like a good soap-opera read but one word ruined it: Motive.
Thank you Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for a honest review. I have read and will continue to read this author.
Who knew that summer camp could be so deadly? Two young girl disappeared while at camp and no one knows what happened to them. There were stories but no bodies were ever found until now. The truth is about to come out and many people's lives will be effected by secrets. The group of girls that knew what was happening all kept quiet about their part in the situation and no one could ever get them to change it but now they are coming back to town and hopefully everything will come out into the open? Lucas can't believe that this is happening now, he has tried to make peace with what happened back then but now it is all about to come into the open. Will he be able to find the peace that Elle deserved or will the nightmare never end? The girls are back in town but they can't be trusted as some are just going to keep on hiding from the truth. Isn't it time to come clean about that night? We get to go on a journey of two young girls lives and realize that they both just wanted to be loved but they trusted the wrong person. Who killed the girls and why? The town will never be the same again. So many secrets and lies. A good interesting story never trust family they are evil like no other. We should be grateful and take the chances that we are given as you never know what is around that corner. Full of drama and very intense young adult drama.
I really enjoyed this book, I liked how it went from past to present and back. The characters were interesting and the story line kept me engaged all the way through the book. Another great read from Lisa Jackson.
Lisa Jackson is one of my go to authors; I’ve read at least 18 of her books, and have several more on my TBR list of downloaded books.
Sadly I have to say I was disappointed by her latest book “You Will Pay”, a standalone, novel. Missing from the book was her character development, an edgy mystery that kept you on the edge of your seat, and a clear line between likeable and unsavory characters. What was included in the book was a collection of all of the daytime soap opera plots or supermarket tabloid headlines. There was the teen/20 something’s cliques, the mean girls, bad boys, cheating couples, backstabbing, lies, retribution and murder.
The story is told by jumping from the past when the crime was committed to current time, where all the stories of the past are being re-investigated. I found I really didn’t like any of the characters, so that made rooting for anyone difficult. There was just so much drama and plotting going on that I felt more burdened, than privy to the info, and in the end I didn’t see that it benefited anyone. There are a few loose ends that were not addressed throughout the story, but the story is complete.
I think for devoted readers of Lisa Jackson this book will stand out as being very different than her usual books, but each reader can make that decision for themselves.
Thank you to Netgalley on behalf of the author and Kensington Publishing Corporation for the ARC, in return for an honest review.
The Expected publication date is May 30th 2017
This was a 2 star read for me
Very good story.....Would recommend. Looking forward to reading more by this author.
Sex, lies and yes, even videotapes - the stuff of which soap operas are made - all come together in coastal small-town Oregon in this rather lusty novel. Murder? Check. Incest? Check. Throw in an Elmer Gantry-like leader of a summer camp for teenagers that's been closed for two decades, and you've got a solid start to your summer beach reading.
Camp Horseshoe closed after two of the still-teenage female counselors, a hired hand and a convict who escaped from a nearby prison went missing. Now - 20 years later - Lucas Dalton, detective with the local sheriff's department and son of the aforementioned preacher man, is investigating the discovery of what appears to be human scull in a small cave on the bank of the water at which one of the missing counselors, Eleanor (Elle) was last seen. Complicating matters is that Lucas was Elle's serious love interest at the time; also, several of the other female counselors, led by Jo-Beth Chancellor, reportedly tried to put the fear of God into Monica shortly before she disappeared.
Today, all the camp participants, including Lucas, have gone on with their lives (mostly successfully), but the secrets they buried all those years ago now threaten to bring them down. Semi-estranged from his preacher father, Jeremiah, and his beautiful ex-stepmother Naomi, Lucas has secrets of his own that he hopes don't see the light of day. But as all the counselors involved in the scheme to scare Monica decide to return to align the stories they will once again offer to police, they face a nosy reporter who's desperate to get the real story for an online tabloid - a woman who was just as nosy as a camper 20 years ago.
Chapters switch from viewpoints of the characters in the present and that fateful summer at camp - a technique of which I'm not fond, but it does allow details to be released little by little that shed more light on what really happened. Admittedly, that got a bit hard for me to follow in that there are so many characters to remember; besides that, there seemed to me to be an excessive amount of repetition from one recollection to another (although to be honest, that probably helped my aging brain keep all those characters straight).
Tying up all the loose ends in one tidy package also tested the limits of believability for me, but then keep in mind I was a church camper back in the day, and the closest I ever got to high drama was having a bit of a crush - as did most of the other female campers - on a young, super-cute minister-counselor. All that meant, though, was that we sang "Kumbaya, My Lord" louder than necessary around the campfire in hopes of getting his attention. Kinky sex? Murder and mayhem? Fuhgettaboutit!
If you're looking for off-kilter characters in creepy settings, give this one a try. My thanks to the publisher, via NetGalley, for providing me with an advance copy to read and review.
A keep you on the edge of your seat romantic suspense. Several twists that really take this book to the highest level of suspense. You will think twice about sending your children to summer camp, as a camper or counselor.