Wow! This was a great read! I love the back and forth timelines, the different character perspectives. Lots of mystery and suspense, keeps you on your toes until the end. For any reader looking for a great mystery, this is the book for you!

I received an ARC from Netgalley for an honest review.

Great teen thriller; as fun to read as the author's well-known One of Us is Lying. I enjoyed the unpredictable story & felt we really got to know the characters. The setting is a lot of fun, and perfect for a summer read. Teens will love this book & I will certainly recommend it.

I did feel as though there was some attempted diversity with Milly being half-Japanese, but there was very little to differentiate her from her cousins. I felt as though her ethnicity was used as more of an accessory, or a token. This did not impress me.

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This story centers around three cousins that are virtual strangers.
Their parents were disinherited by their uber rich grandmother Mildred, via a cryptic letter, many years ago. The cousins have never met Mildred and have never known why she cut them all out of her life.
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Out of the blue, each of the cousins receive an invitation to come work at an island resort Mildred owns.
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Their parents are eager to be received back into Mildred’s good graces and see this as the opportunity to do so.
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Once they arrive at the island, mysterious things begin to happen. Secrets begin to emerge. Vendettas are revealed.
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I absolutely love Karen McManus. Her character development and storylines are masterful.
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✨Due out December 1, 2020✨

McManus is a crowd pleaser in my library, and I don't see that stopping any time soon. Teens will gobble this mystery up once it arrives.

This is one of those authors that never lets you down. It was engaging and gripping. I did not want to put this one down. so good. Amazing character development. Must read.

This is a fun, quick read. I didn’t figure it out until the ending. Definitely enjoyable and will read more by this author.

A solid teen mystery. I’m glad we’re getting more books in this genre. I can’t say it was totally unpredictable since I knew about halfway through who the villains were going to be but I still thoroughly enjoyed the plot twists. Good characters. Fantastic setting. The ending felt a little rushed after the slow burn of the rest of the story. I wanted to love the epilogue but I found the surprise more confusing than thrilling.

What I love about a McManus book is that, as you read it, you think you start to figure things out. And you might but only just a little bit because of all the twists and turns she throws at you. This book does not disappoint! It is the perfect summer read.

Thank you Get Underlined and Penguin Random House for providing me with an early copy!

So McManus is an amazing author. I love her mysteries and her twists and her characters. The thing I love most I would say is her last-liners. The last line of this book is just as good as the one in Two Can Keep a Secret (my fav of her books). I love the idea of a whole island being the setting of a mystery thriller, because no one can stay hidden for long. Absolutely loved this book and I’m anxious to see what McManus will come up with next!

Please note that I have shared on my IG stories that I loved this book, but do not have a way to do a post as I don’t have a way to do digital ARC photos. Still super loved this book!

Millie, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins who have never met. Before they were born, their wealthy grandmother disinherited their parents with the cryptic message “you know what you did”. But now, Grandmother has extended an invitation to her grandchildren to visit her for the summer at her private island resort. The cousins aren’t sure they want to go but they end up at the ferry together where things get off to a rocky and mysterious start. Why would their grandmother invite them and then suddenly leave the island? Who really knows the truth about what their parents did? Why do Millie and Jonah have an undeniable connection? Can Aubrey be brave enough to save them all from the truth of what really happened years ago? If you are a fan of One of Us is Lying, this story will leave you just as twisted! Kudos to McManus for another original suspense thriller!

This was such a fun read! It’s not a surprise that a Karen McManus book would have interesting characters and a compelling mystery. It’s just really nice when a favorite author gets better and better with each book. This book had me staying up waaaay past my bedtime and struggling not to peek at the last few chapters. I just wanted to know what would happen. I’d definitely recommend this to all my middle and HS teacher and librarian friends to stock in catherine libraries. Kids will love reading this book!

Shared this title with my 13 year old daughter and she gives it a thumbs up. She found it a little hard to follow at first but once she settled into the plot twists she was fully on board. Would highly recommend.

I'm just going to say first off - another wild ride from Karen M. McManus.  She has become my go to for mystery thrillers without being scary/horror, which I just can't do.

Three cousins, Milly, Audrey, and Jonah, have been sent letters by their grandmother, stating that she wants to meet them and have them work at her island resort for the summer.  Their parents were all disowned by their grandmother over 20 years ago, and the cousins barely know each other.  All accept the offer, as they really had little choice from their parents, and head to the island to work and meet their grandmother.  However, things aren't really as they seem when they arrive.  Everyone on the island seems to be keeping secrets, including the cousins.  As they continue to live on the small island resort, the cousins learn how very mysterious their grandmother and family really are, and secrets start to come out into the open.

I enjoyed this book.  I have come to really appreciate Karen M. McManus' style of writing that keeps me engaged and tangled in the web she weaves - I'm intrigued, I'm curious and want to read more, and in this book I was uneasy to the point where I had to put it down for two days to get over a particular part of the book.  (I don't do well with cringe situations, especially in books... that's just a me thing though.)

Overall, this is another winner.  You are kept guessing until the end, and once you get there you realize all the clues you missed throughout the book.  A solid read.

McManus’s writing style is perhaps one of my favorite in YA. The way she weaves past and present together and the multiple POVs always keeps you guessing and on your toes right down to the very last twist on the very last page. My favorite thing about her specifically is not only her final twists, but all the little ones in between that you never see coming. I absolutely loved this, and even found myself rooting for characters that I hated in the beginning. The three cousins each had great and intriguing backstories and their family history was so interesting that I couldn’t get enough. I loved each of their voices and the setting and the sheer mystery. The only reason I couldn’t give it five stars was because it was a tad slow in places, and there’s just something about YA thrillers that misses the mark for me every time no matter what, but I could definitely be generous and round this to a 4.5. This is by far my favorite of her books, and encourage everyone to pick up a copy when this comes out in December.

This book is as good as I thought it would be. Set in a great New England island setting there is family intrigue, lies, drama and secrets. Lots of secrets! Karen McManus gives just enough away to allow you to contemplate what the ending will look like but then throws you off and surprises you in the end. Three grandchildren of the great Story family are called to the island with the hope of mending their broken family relationship but they get much more than they bargained for and wind up gaining insight that allows them to solve a mystery that happened more before they were born. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The Cousins are- Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah, and they barely know each other. Their parents were cut off from their eccentric grandmother who refuses to see either her children or her grandchildren. So, when an "invitation" arrives for each of the cousins to spend the summer working at her New England island resort, they cannot refuse. The cousins parents are determined to get back into their mother's good graces, and to try to recover some of the money they were disinherited from. And honestly, all three of them would like to get to the bottom of what happened to make the four Story children so unwelcome to their childhood home.
Secrets quickly begin to unravel. The novel's narrative changes form each of the three cousins, as well as the only Story daughter in 1996 when everything went wrong.
The twist comes out of nowhere and I really enjoyed the fourth novel from this author.

The Story family is complicated. After their parents are abruptly disinherited twenty four years prior, the three Story cousins- Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah- reconnect when their estranged grandmother invites them to work on her island for the summer. No one is sure why, but one thing is for sure - not going is NOT an option.

I'm a big fan of McManus' writing and so I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Cousins. It was fast paced and each of the characters were entertaining in their own way. I really liked how there were small reveals along the way that changed the course of the story without being too confusing or overwhelming. There were a few moments of predictability, but the plot twist in the last quarter of the book definitely got me! Everything wrapped up nicely in the end, but I feel like the mystery of the disinheritance left me somewhat unsatisfied, as did the events that followed with the Story siblings.

Soapy family murder mystery? Sign me up! I’ve devoured all of Karen McManus’ books and was estactic to review this ARC. The family drama and mystery made it unbelievably hard to put this book down. Present and past storylines slowly unravel the twists to this rich family steeped in secrets. The Cousins follows Milly, Jonah and Aubrey on their unexpected summer to meet the mysterious grandmother and town they’ve never know besides the stories their parents have told them. It’s a fast paced and twisty read!

I have this authors other books so I was excited to read this one because I enjoyed her other ones and again she did not disappoint. This book totally different from her other but in sines ways the same. It had a little mystery to it .had some twist to. So if you are looking for good little mystery this one was good

Karen McManus never fails to disappoint. With The Cousins, she weaves a mystery with several twists, eventually resulting in a crazy climax that leaves room for more. If you liked, especially, Two Can Keep a Secret, then you'll LOVE The Cousins.