Really love diving back into teen fiction!

I enjoyed everything about this, especially all the different relationships. They were so great. I loved their background history and their chemistry, the slow eerienese, the angst, the push and pull. Everything was so well executed by the author.

The characters were not perfect, they had their own struggles and obstacles they had to overcome. There were so many times I was wondering if one of them was gonna let up, if anyone was about to die right then and there. I’m so happy with how everything wrapped up (or, did a cliffhanger, I suppose) at the end. It was such an enjoyable book.

if u like getting ur hopes up with an interesting writing format and compelling characters and then having those hopes punted into a 200 foot canyon this book is for u!!!

I'm really glad I stuck with this one - I was a little concerned that it was going to go all supernatural monster in the woods situation on me, and monster horror isn't really my thing. That said, it didn't, and I ended up really enjoying the book! I actually really liked the interview style and shifting perspectives - it worked perfectly for this story. Ultimately, this incredibly stressful scenario was well portrayed and put the reader in the scene perfectly. I loved it!

i liked the format of the book, really fun to read and each character had a very distinct voice, although some of the characters (nolan) are super annoying

First, this is a thriller that teens will enjoy. Especially those who love thrillers with teens who go out into the woods alone (think Friday the 13th but with a bigfoot-obsessed teen who is just sure a bigfoot is stalking them at the campsite).

In this story, five teens plan a last-minute camping trip at Salvation Creek, a place that apparently has had a couple of disappearances over the years. Three girls and two boys--one couple in the bunch and the rest are just acquaintences. When one disappears, the others try to figure out what happened. Was she kidnapped? Did she run away? Did a bigfoot grab her?

This story is told in reverse, at the police station, as the kids are interviewed about what happened. So the story is told through their many points of view as they are being questioned by the police. It's hard at first to stumble through the interviews and figure out what is going on and I assume some kids will love this format while others will hate it. I'm not sure why the author included so much material about bigfoot. It was a strange take on what was happening in the story. But to each his own,. I guess.

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Read if you like:
- multiple POVs
- camping thrillers
- Bigfoot

I absolutely loved the format of this book!! It is written consisting entirely of first person police interviews. I haven’t seen this idea done before and I thought it was really cool. I also really liked that the POVs switched every few paragraphs or so; it made it very interesting seeing multiple peoples stories at once, as well as easy to keep the characters straight.
There was a little too much Bigfoot talk in here for me; honestly it made the story feel ridiculous and unbelievable. The ending made sense when it was all tied together, it’s just not personally my taste.
I did actually really enjoy this book though; I could not put it down until I finished, and I did not see the ending coming!
I would recommend this to anyone who loves YA campy thrillers (I LOVE THEM!!!) and anyone looking for a different style book that you will devour 😊

I love a good thriller, and I love when it centers around a cast of characters that has a little something for everyone, like The Breakfast Club. Sedoti pulled that off quite well. Her character development is some of the best I've ever written and I could "hear" the voices quite quickly and easily in my head. This will make an amazing audiobook---and I'd love to see it as a movie.

Four unreliable narrators telling the story of a fifth in their party who has disappeared. All are guilty of something, but no one really knows what. There were twists and turns, and some expected bits, but overall, I was captured by this read and had to know just what happened to Maylee.

The storyline unfolds during the four separate, and long interrogations held in the police station. The quick change between narrators made the story move more quickly than a strictly linear telling would have. Often, in YA, there's a lot of "drama" that, for me as an avid YA reader, takes away from the story and characters. Not in this book. It was very like listening to my students talk about things, with the occasional asides that are related but not moving the story forward much. I was convinced right up until the end that I knew what had happened and who was to "blame." I was wrong.

Being YA, there is some language and a few sexual overtones--nothing overt or explicit, just touched on.

My only "eh" is regarding the ending. It seemed very abrupt to me, initially. I mean, we were rolling along and the pieces fell into place, and then....it was done. I don't normally go for an ending like this at all, but I think the fact that my minds keeps wandering to it and wondering how it played out made it work, probably as intended.

This review will be posted on my blog on the book's street date.

This book is such an interesting one! I loved the different format of storytelling and while it took me a little bit to get into it, once I did, I thought it was very engaging. The characters all feel very distinct and the ending was wrapped up nicely.

Maylee is missing after a disasterous camping trip and her friends are all suspects now. Lots of people out there had reasons to hate her, and possibly want her dead, but who knows where she is? Told through the police interviews of her friends the drama in this case unfolds as each one has their own story of the events of the night. A fun read but it felt like I read something like it before. The most original parts were about the Bigfoot and that was way dragged out and overdone

Five teenagers are planning on a one-night camping trip at Salvation Creek. It’s not smooth sailing from the beginning, but gets worse when one of them goes missing. Everyone has their own theories about what happened and what they think needs to be done.

I wasn’t prepared for the story to be written in this format. It was different than anything I’ve read before. The prologue confused me but I got it once I was actually in chapter one.

The premise of the story is that the four teenagers are being questioned by police about the missing girl. We get the perspectives of all four, responding to a question posed by police, which is at the beginning of the chapter. Otherwise, there’s no dialogue from the police. There are a lot of context clues, but the only direct police comments are at the beginning of each chapter.

It’s a formatting you’ll like or hate. If you don’t like the way it’s written after the first couple chapters, you will probably feel that way throughout. But I thought it was a neat way of writing.

Regarding the actual plot, it was decent and fairly quick moving. I didn’t get bored throughout and I read it pretty fast. Don’t expect to like the characters, but they were written well to understand their background.

I guess there were kind of plot twists but they were anticlimactic with the reveal. It tied everything together and shows how one action can have a domino effect, but the “big reveals” weren’t shocking.

Review of eBook

When Maylee Hayes convinces her best friend, Petra Whitfield, and her boyfriend, John Massey to go to Salvation Creek for a camping trip with her, it isn’t long before things get a bit out of hand. Maylee’s friend, Abigail Buckley, and Petra’s stepbrother, Nolan Anderson, are also along for the weekend and end up adding to the tension.

But when Maylee disappears, can the group figure out what happened to her?

Petra, the organizer, sets out to search the woods, but Nolan is convinced that, with his thermal imager, he’s seen Bigfoot there. John is reluctant to wander in the woods; Abigail is strangely silent. Did Maylee return to the hunting cabin the teens discovered earlier in the day? Or, as Nolan insists, has Bigfoot grabbed her?

What really happened to Maylee?

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Secrets, deceptions, alcohol, and a gun all play a part in the unfolding story, spinning out in a series of interrogation questions asked by the detectives investigating the girl’s disappearance. As each person responds to the question, the teens’ responses reveal bits and pieces of information; through these responses, readers learn more about each of the characters and the events that took place during the camping trip.

Although well-defined, the characters weren’t always likable; sadly, John seemed to be in the story solely to provide a token Black character. Petra’s bossiness is a bit over the top at times, while Nolan’s Bigfoot obsession provides an eeriness to the setting in the woods. Maylee’s manipulative nature strains friendships, but the constantly-building suspense adds to the telling of the tale.

Young adult readers are sure to find the mystery of what happened to Maylee intriguing, but the ending of this suspenseful tale is rather disappointing.

Recommended.

I received a free copy of this eBook from SOURCEBOOKS Fire and NetGalley
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This was a very engaging, fast-paced teen read. There were plenty of false leads, red herrings, and twists to keep you reading if you happened to put it down and return to it. I did not - I binged it cover-to-cover! I enjoyed the format of the investigative questions. It made the characters believable teenagers who were trying to balance and build relationships, despite the precarious position they find themselves in. Situations and settings were likely and well-described through the dialogue. I would highly suggest this for a HS library or YA collection. Good for grades 9-12, and I will be pushing it with my grades 9-10 and my student book club. Good read.

Solid 3 stars.
Murder mystery where 5 go into the woods for a camping trip and only 4 come out. Kept my interest throughout and I loved the multiple viewpoints and interview style setup of the book. I feel like the end could have been a lot better and a little more believable but was still a fun read.
Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the arc!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

This was quite the interesting read. I do enjoy books where you get different pieces of the story with each confession/interview. I did feel the suspense throughout and was feeling myself get invested in each character. I flew through the book, and would highly recommend it to others. The ending wasn't my favorite, but that is not to take away from the creativity and fast-pace of this novel!

This was an excellent thriller/mystery. I am a sucker for unreliable narrators and shifting POVs. This was so cleverly written that i could not put it down.

Mixed feelings on this one!

For one, I LOVED the format. A murder mystery told through the interviews of the suspects is BRILLIANT. So well done there. The voices were also incredibly distinct--something so, so hard to do when you're not writing gestures, character descriptions, interactions, etc. I was impressed. It was almost like reading a screenplay, in the best way.

But frustratingly, the plot itself was a letdown. Nolan's obsession with Big Foot was just way too much, and really took me out of the story. The ending was underwhelming and didn't explain why any of them were lying, which we'd clearly seen in the interviews? Unless they were just all supposed to be unintentionally unreliable. Nolan gets drunk halfway through the book, but after a couple chapters he was fine? Maylee was incredibly shallow to the point of being unbelievable. John served no purpose but to bring in the racial aspect... and the author's random jabs at conservatives were unnecessary.

That said, I'd still be interested in seeing what Chelsea writes next, since her writing STYLE and ideas were clever and creative.

Super grateful to Netgalley and SourcebooksFire for the arc!

-A

I'm a sucker for teen mysteries and add to it that this is epistolary and you have a winner for me! This is a great book and a read that sucked me in from the beginning. I would recommend this to teens looking for a great thriller!

Brilliant twisty thriller that had me hooked from the get go. I was guessing throughout and loved the way it threw me and made me doubt what I was thinking!. Cannot recommend it enough!

I liked the setting - the woods, especially at nighttime were creepy. I thought I would like the fact that it was set up as police interviews of the four teenagers answering questions about their missing friend but I didn't like it that much; it just seemed to be lacking. The characters were okay. It never held my interest enough to look forward to picking it back up but it wasn't bad enough to abandon.

Thank you NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire for this ARC. This was definitely a great teen thriller, it reminded me a lot of One Of Us Is Lying, which is one of my personal favourites. There was so many great twists and you are always kept guessing what will happen next. I'm actually still in shock after reading this.. it's definitely one of those books that you just sit there after you're done reading and you're speechless haha. I do say that some POVs were more interesting than others but besides that it was a great read! Got through it really quickly.