Years ago, the town had a mining tragedy that killed a lot of the townspeople and marks a point most people wish to forget as everyone lost someone that they loved in the accident. This book starts with Emma wanting to talk to her parents but can't find the words and so she turns to her online group where she can chat about everything and anything and feels so close to her online friends as they all have one thing in common - they were adopted. In the group, we have Emma - Miss Know-It-All, Fabian - the bullied, Michael - Bully, Tessie- the tall weirdo, and then Sam - the mysterious stranger. When the group decides to meet, imagine their surprise that the people they have shared their inner thoughts with are the ones they also hate the most. As the book goes along, Sam decides to get them to work together as he has come so far for them to stop now, and since he is the outlier of the group it works. When the group finally decides to work together as they all want to know where they came from, they will learn that their parents are hiding dark secrets and it all seems to be connected to the mining tragedy that happened in the town. This book took an interesting twist near the end when they choose to discover the closed mines and one, I didn't see coming. Mercy Point is not only a great YA thriller but also has an added Science Fiction twist to the story, that reminded me a bit of the films The Host and I am Number Four.

Ermmmm...where’s the sequel at?!
According to Goodreads this book doesn’t have any others in the series, but I went review-scrolling and it appears that there will in fact be a second and possibly third book.
I think this is important to note because without knowing there is more plot coming I reckon I’d rate this slightly differently.

This book was WHACK. Like absolutely nuts - I cannot.
It’s starts off and you’re like, ok ok, mystery. I gots it. I understand.
I have since found out I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
What the actual FERK.
I mean I’m down for weirdness but HON, DON’T CLIFFHANGER ME WITH NO NEWS OF A SEQUEL.

This book was great. First of all, props to character development and just characters in general, really. They made the story for me, and made me patient for the crazy hecticness that was the end of this book.
Genuinely shook.
I am shooketh.
If anyone has seen my sanity wandering round, I’d like it back, because this book STOLE it from me. (・Д・)

This book intrigued me from the start. A group of five teenagers are connected only through a private message board 'a place for teenagers in Mount Cobalt who doubt their paternity to meet and connect in private'. They all feel a strong affinity to one another - each one seems to intimately understand how the other feels. But things fall apart when they decide to meet and realise that four of them know each other from school and they don't get along. Disappointed is the only way to describe how they all feel. How can they move forward to further investigate their belief that they have all been adopted when they can't even look at each other. Not only that, unexplainable things are starting to happy to them. If they are going to start to work things out somehow they need to find a way to work together. I found this novel to be completely absorbing. Cleverly told from the point of view of four of the teenagers, often the chapters are left hanging making it hard to put this novel down. This book will engage even the fussiest young adult reader.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book! Unfortunately I didn't finish it because it was so frustrating to read. My main issue was with the writing, the book seems like it is written more for middle school kids than young adults and it seems like the author is writing how they think teenagers think/talk but is completely missing the mark. I stopped reading at 53% and it felt like it was still so far from getting to the point. This book had the potential to be interesting because it's a good concept but I personally couldn't get past the writing.

I went into reading this with trepidation because I really didn't like the last book I read by this author, but wanted to give this one a go and I'm so glad I did because I really enjoyed it. From reading the reviews on here it seems it is either loved or not. Well I for one am hoping there is a sequel to this because by the time we get to the end and find out what the secret is that these teenagers have been searching for, that their parents have found the need to keep tightly held between them, we are left wondering what next? I wouldn't really put this in the thriller category, for me it sits more the mystery, suspense category and it sits here well. This story drew me in, held my attention and left me wanting more.

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins AU for a copy in return for an honest review.