Member Reviews
Kit Frick’s latest delivers thrills, chills, and an entire ensemble of narrators to immerse readers in the tale. Zoe Spanos went missing on New Year’s Eve, and rumors start to fly when Anna Cicconi shows up for a summer job bearing a striking resemblance to Zoe. Two months later, Zoe’s body is found and Anna is confessing to murder, but teen podcast host Martina Green knows the facts aren’t adding up and that there’s far more to this case than meets the eye.
Frick's YA mystery slowly unravels what happened to Zoe, as Anna begins to question her own memories of what happened on New Year's Eve. As a reader, you switch sides often, going from believing Anna to wondering if she did have a role to play, and what that role could be. I was really impressed with the way Frick tied all of the loose ends together in the final chapters, in a way that was believable but still surprising.
As an audiobook, this really shone. The book is divided between prose chapters and podcast chaptres. The narration for the prose was great, and the podcast episodes included full cast narrations which made them feel like real episodes you were listening to. They were so good I found myself wanting more of those chapters and looking forward to them when they came up. For anyone interested in this book, I'd definitely recommend the audiobook.
Fans of YA mysteries will find a lot to enjoy here.
Boring, unsympathetic characters and everything falls flat. I don’t see the whole thriller aspect because everything takes pages and pages to happen, and most of it is mundane stuff anyways. The narrator sounds very young and only adds to the whiny nature of Anna's character.
The story didn't do it for me. I blame the fact I read a lot of thriller/true crime/mystery novels and just wasn't engaged - but for an audience younger than me, an actual young adult, this book will be great for them.
The audiobook however was EXPERTLY DONE. The podcast segments were excellently produced.