Four friends have stolen aboard the Titanic. They're after the Rubaiyat - a book inlaid with priceless jewels. Josefa is a charismatic thief, Hinnah a daring acrobat, Violet an outstanding actress and Emilie a talented artist.

It is Josefa's plan, but she needs all of their skills. Despite their very different backgrounds, in a world of first-class passengers and suspicious crew members, the girls must work together to pull off the heist of their lives.

When I opened this book I sighed, you get the interview question and then the reply to each character separately. I don"t really like to read like that, I want to read a story, not like a play or something.
BUT ... I stayed with it and once I got into it I loved it !
Writing the story like this was the right choice, when you get into the story you really get into the interview and you are really taking a step back.
There were enough twists not to make the story predictable. I definitely recommend.

I didn’t like it but I didn’t hate it. After all of the perceived drama the ending was anticlimactic. I know that was probably the point as it built Maylee up to this kind of mini villain who would do anything to build this fantastic life of influencing and it ending so must differently but in the end it gives her exactly what she wanted.

I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Five friends goes on a camping trip, one didn't make it back. What happened?

This book was fun, told in the style of police interview tape, the chapters are the kids responding to police interrogation, same question, very different answers.

I recommend this book for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.

5 teens go into the woods on a camping trip and 4 end up in interrogation rooms. Investigators just want to know what really happened to Maylee out in the woods....
This was a fast paced YA thriller. The police interview format was a cool way to see the story unravel.. Each chapter is the interview question followed by what each of the 4 friends respond. It might have been slightly easier to follow if the chapters were separated by character, as it went back and forth through them frequently. But, I was still able to follow and keep track. Each character has a unique personality and perspective about what happened that night.
There were lots of twists and turns that i did not see coming. The pace kept me turning the page and saying, "one more chapter".
Recommend for fans of YA thrillers.
Thanks to Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire for an early copy for review.

This is an intense book told through the voices of the teens who went camping; five left and only four returned. We see their relationships begin and flourish, and during their interrogations we see many emotions: fear, disbelief, anxiety, and terror. Although they all "appear" to be friends, there is also tension in the ways they react as they are never sure who or what came between them. There's a gun, a Bigfoot sighting, and social media references. What's not to like?
Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

I really loved this one. Five teens go into the woods and only four teens come back. The book takes place in an interrogation room with each teen taking their turn to describe what happened.

I usually hate multi pov books because the voices never sound different. However, this is the first book I've read where I haven't had to keep looking back to see which character was talking. Each voice is very unique. I also love that the stereotypical "heroes" ended up kind of sucking in this book. Usually the nerd or the offbeat girl would be the heroes. In this one, Nolan is pretty insufferable and Abigail is keeping a pretty big secret. My favorite character was Petra, who yes, was pretty neurotic and anal but that kind of person would actually be good in an emergency so it felt true to life.

I really love the mystery and the pace in which the story was told. It also covers a wide range of perspectives that I really appreciated.

I actually quite liked this book, it's always fun to read a good mystery book especially the way this one was described through a police interview. In the beginning I felt quite bored of the big foot and the conspiracy theories from Nolan but in the end it was all worth it. The chapters went by so fast that I read the book in one day! I was not expecting that ending not until a few pages before the reveal of the mystery. Maylee was such a complex character and I was quite surprised about the little plotwists about her. What's interesting is that the four characters except Nolan and Petra(practically siblings) don't know each other well except they all have a connection to Maylee. I'm definitely listening to this book as an audiobook, it will be amazing! Thanks you SOURCEBOOKS fire and netgally for this e-ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley, Sourebooks Fire, and Chelsea Sedoti for an ARC of Tell Me What Really Happened.

I wish I had more positive points to make about this book, but it looks like I will be the outlier.

First, what worked best is the way the story is told. Teens, one of whom is obsessed with finding a Bigfoot in the woods, set out on a camping trip. Someone ends up dead, and the police separate them into interrogation rooms. The story is told through police interviews with each of the teens, and all of them seem to have a different story. As the mystery of Maylee missing unfolds, readers are left asking themselves, but who is telling the truth?

First, the age group categorization -- 14-18 -- seems like a stretch. I'd say 13-15. The teenage problems floating around the book do not seem like the kind that 17-18 year olds would face. I cannot see any 18 year old I know reading this and feeling even remotely related to what's happening aside from the points about choosing a college major. Everything else seems a bit...juvenile for someone that age.

Some of the minor details are incorrect. Petra, the girl who organized the camping trip, makes it a point to say that she had to buy "special keto hotdogs" for one of her friends who tagged along. Keto is a fat heavy diet; hotdogs are a keto-friendly food. From what I understand, "keto hotdogs" aren't a thing. Hotdogs are, by default, keto. I know what you're thinking -- does it really matter? The answer is yes. When you read a book, you expect it to be fact-checked when appropriate, even when it's fiction.

Finally, and I don't want to give too much away because I don't want spoil it for anyone who might read this book...Sasquatch plays way too much of a role here. If you are someone who is dabbled in the hunt for a Bigfoot in the woods, or if that's ever remotely interested you, I recommend it. Otherwise, you'll probably be just as disappointed as I was when I closed this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Chelsea Sedoti, and Sourcebooks Fire for providing this e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I felt that this book was very fast paced. I was able to glide through it very quickly. It was a very wild and unique story. I was on the edge of my seat a lot while reading this book. You are definitely going to want to check this book out when it is published.

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It was an engaging and fast paced read. It was interesting to see how the four different characters being questions had overlapping yet at times conflicting stories - that element was well done. The characters were all interesting but most of them also seemed a bit like exaggerated caricatures. It was unique to read a book where the person who was missing seemed like a terrible person but that everyone perceived different. I wish there had been a part to hear from Maylee at the end but perhaps it’s better that way.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This story was wild. It hooked me from the beginning and had a very unique storyline to it. I actually liked it more than I thought I would and a few times I actually felt my heart drop with the suspense. A girl goes missing in the woods while her friends were there with her. What could have happened? Who actually knows the whole story? Do you actually know who your friends really are?

Maylee is a pretty and popular teenage girl who randomly asks a group of her friends (including her boyfriend and her friends’s brother) to go camping for just one night in a place where girls seem to disappear. After Maylee goes missing as well, the group is sent to give interviews with the police about what really happened that night.

We have Petra: the judgy best friend who is obsessed with rules and order and has to have everything go her way, John: the boyfriend who has had trouble in the past after an “accident”, Abigail: a friend of Maylee’s who nobody knew was coming on the trip. She comes from a poor family and her father is known as a “right wing nut” around town, and Nolan: Petra’s stepbrother who is obsessed with cryptid creatures and is sure Bigfoot is in the woods.

The mystery here actually had me engaged. I wanted to try to notice every little lie or slip up to see what was actually happening. The big twist near the end actually had me shocked. I did not see that coming at all, even though it made perfect sense.

The whole Bigfoot plot line threw me for a loop. I was really over here waiting for Bigfoot to pop out and start terrorizing a group of teenagers. I also can’t ignore the parts where John was making it known that it was obvious he was going to be made to be the bad guy because he was the only black person there. And he was right. I appreciate the author putting light on this issue.

This was a fun and fast read with interesting characters from different backgrounds and perspectives and a plot that was completely bonkers. It comes out in April so check it out when it debuts.

I really enjoyed this take on a survival in the woods mystery and the unique take on how the story is told. The device of having each of the characters in their police interrogation was great, with all of them having distinct voices and points of view that it never felt repetitive or confusing to read. Their perspectives were also deepened by what each character was grappling with and how they react to the police.

The mystery is also well handled with multiple twists and turns that left me wondering at the outcome until the very end. The final beat in particular is very well done. Petra is a very interesting character who represents the toxicity of female friendships sometimes at the point in life that they are in, and it was tragic to see her somewhat rationalize in real time what her relationship with Maylee actually was like.

The same is true for a variety of the characters, especially because Maylee is far from a perfect victim. Each of them had a reason to want her gone, but they likewise had compelling reasons not to. Maylee is portrayed as a gravitational force that most of them (Nolan excluded) can't help but revolve around and that comes through in their interviews.

ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book was just not for me. I wanted to like it I really did but to me nothing was really solved and there was to many open plot holes that just didn't get answered.

I wanted to like this book more I really did.
It reads pretty quick for having 53 chapters and an epilogue, but since it switches between characters it reads like a conversation. Also some of the chapters are two pages, so that part wasn't that bad.
I just didn't mesh with this one.

This was such a fascinating read. By using only the replies to police questions, the author was able to develop very complex characters and a very suspenseful plot.
The characters were so interesting and multi-faceted. I loved each one. They had their idiosyncracies but that just made them that much more interesting.
The format of the story was so unique and worked so well. I just felt like I was in the interrogation rooms with the teens. And the dialogue was so well done. I knew exactly who was speaking just by the words they spoke. That is truly incredible when I think of all the times I had to reread something to figure out who was speaking.
I really loved this book and I'm looking forward to more books from this author.

When high schooler Maylee goes missing in the woods whilst she and her friends are out there one night, the police start to investigate. Tell Me What Really Happened uses the police interviews of Maylee's four friends to tell the story,

This is a really interesting concept and it worked really well to demonstrate different recollections of the same events. However, it got a bit hard to follow at times and the ending didn't have as much impact as I would have liked. Not a bad easy mystery though.

I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

I love the idea of a novel told entirely through police interviews with different characters, and this was really well done. Each character seemed very real and I enjoyed comparing their different perspectives.

Fast paced mystery told from four unique first person points of view. I really enjoyed the authors writing style and being able to see how the characters viewed one another and how the events unfolded. Page turner that moved quickly, perfect for YA suspense fans! I really enjoyed this story. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy!

this book has a four POV in which the four teenagers are interviewed and with most books, having so much POV is really difficult and I tend to like less POV, but this book really pulled it off and I was deep into the book before I realized it! I give this a 4 star!

Welcome Back!

Recently I was looking for a new mystery book to read. Something that would hold my attention and be unique. I decided to look through my bookshelves (which are mostly packed up as we are moving)! Then I started looking through the ebooks on my Kindle. One book I came across was an E-ARC called Tell Me What Really Happened, after looking at the Goodreads page, I decided this was the new read I was going to be jumping into!

SPOILERS AHEAD

A group of high school students who are not exactly friends, some of them barely even know each other are going camping for one night! They have all decided to go on this trip willingly but it’s going to be kind of weird. We have Petra, who is always prepared and the overachiever of the group. Nolan, who is Petra’s stepbrother and kind of obsessed with the idea that bigfoot is real and maybe he can find one on this trip! Abigail, who most people are confused why she is on this trip, but she was invited by Maylee, who kind of was the one who decided they were going on this trip at all. Then there is John, Maylee’s boyfriend. Maylee is the one who wanted to go on this trip at all, so here they all are, headed to the woods for one night. But what none of them know on the way there is that Maylee, has a reason for wanting to go camping tonight, right now. Is Maylee’s reason, just to spend time with her boyfriend or is there something much bigger going on?

Before I jump into characters, plot, etc.. I want to talk about the format of the book. The book was written from the idea that the group of teens in the book have already been at the police station. They are each in an individual questioning room. Each chapter is a question that they are asked by the police. Then we get to see each character answer these questions. I loved this style, it helped us not only to get to know each character and possible motivations but also it helps us to get more information about the crime, the locations, and more! Outside of the format of the book, each character was very unique and I think it made it a bit harder to figure out the answer to the crime. Overall, I enjoyed my time with this story! This book comes out in April of 2023, be sure to be on the lookout for it!

Goodreads Rating: 4 Stars

**Thank you so much to the publisher for the E-ARC in exchange for my honest opinions.