It’s the last night at Riverview Theaters. The final guests have gone. In Natalie D. Richards’ “Four Found Dead,” Jo and her co-workers are spending the last hours of their final shift cleaning up and closing down. The end of their time at Riverview Theaters is bittersweet. They are a pretty tight crew, but are looking forward to moving on from a tedious job and a creepy boss. In quick succession, an unexpected visitor, a broken soda machine, and a power outage fray nerves. Then the bodies start piling up. Jo and her friends have to band together and use their wits to save themselves. Will they be able to outwit the one who wants them dead?

The story is fast-paced and full of “no, don’t go in there!” type moments. For the first third of the book there is a LOT of noise inside Jo’s head. It is reasonable as there are a number of triggers that have her reliving past trauma. Just as the noise and her fear become almost overwhelming, both recede and Jo finds her inner strength to push through an event she never thought she’d be part of. I would have liked a longer set-up to build the creepy-factor before the catapult into action. There are some funny comments about how people behave in horror movies.

This story would be great for teens who like thrillers.

Content warning: active shooter.

Thanks to NetGalley and SourceBooksFire for an advance reader’s copy in exchange for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

Thanks so much NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire.

A movie theater in a now closed mall just showed its last shows. Jo and her coworkers are getting ready to close for the last time and will head to IHOP for pancakes. The power goes out and the manager has left with the keys. They are trapped and have just discovered the body of one of their coworkers.

This book was quite a thrill! I didn't know what was going to happen and was on the edge of my seat the whole time. The one thing that I wanted more of was a conclusion with aftermath and a better explanation. It would have made this story that much better. Otherwise, this was an unpredictable thriller that is a must read!

Reviewed for NetGalley:

A group fo coworker and friends are finishing up their last shift at a closing mall theater when they come across a body. Now they have to fight to stay alive, trapped in the theater with the killer.

Decent thriller plot, just having a hard time with the uptick in dead teeangers and fighting to stay alive themes lately.

This book was a page turner from beginning to end. Warning this book has active shooter situations so if that triggers you I would not go further. A group of teens work in a movie theatre attached to a run down mall being remodeled. The manager is quite upset and all the employees want to do is hurry up and get out - until things go south when his girlfriend visits at close and things start to just go downhill from there. Highly recommend. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I went into this book knowing very little about what to expect, aside from knowing a group of teenagers get trapped inside a closed for renovation shopping mall and some level of mayhem follows. This sounded like such a nostalgic throwback to the YA thriller books of my teen years, so I had to wade back into the YA genre and give this story a go.

This book ended up being exactly what I'd hoped it would be: a fun, action packed YA thriller with a tense cat and mouse chase thru a dark, closed down shopping mall, a cast of likeable characters, and a steady balance of suspense throughout the book.

Overall, an entertaining, fast read that's perfect for anyone looking for a nonstop thrill ride taking place in a blast from the past setting. I enjoyed every minute of this one!

Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Fire for providing a copy for me to read and review.

If you read this book, be prepared to have trouble putting it down. I couldn't stop reading and even at the end of chapters it leaves you wanting to keep going. Fast paced and enough twists to keep you guessing. I also liked how the chapters ended with articles, letters, etc. from the future.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC copy of this book to read and review. All of these thoughts and comments are my own.

First, I want to say that this book has really good potentional.

Now, I really wanted to like this book. I do think the plot was great but everything was so rushed in this book. Too much stuff was constantly happening and it was difficult to keep up. I feel like it should have slowed down at some parts and explained better in other parts, like with Ava.

The ending sucked if I’m being honest. Something big happened and then the last chapter just skipped to the after math. No explanation whatsoever and I didn’t like it. This book was just all over the place in my opinion and I just wanted it to be more.

2.5 stars but rounded up to 3.

I absolutely loved this book! It was captivating from the start. I stayed up until 4am because I could not put this book down. Four Found Dead needs to be on your TBR pile because you do NOT want to miss it. It isn't your typical thriller. You know right away who the killer is, you don't know who's next to die, and the ending was *chefs kiss.* Read it; you won't regret it.

I teetered between a soft three or a two but alas the lesser won out.

“Four Found Dead” takes place in my backyard a small rundown mall and a closing movie theater in Sandusky, OH where the final shift is met with chaos and bloodshed.

I think my biggest issue with this book falls mostly work the characters themselves. Pacing wise this book is on from the start with little reprieve which works in its favor being a novel focused around surviving the night with a killer lurking in the shadows. Where this falls apart, however, is we have no real time to sink in and get to know these characters before they’re being killed off making their deaths not hit as hard as they should for the plot to move forward.

The one character we get the most background on is Jo who I liked though I think perhaps if there were alternate point of views per chapter it might have made this work better because that would help tease the who will or who won’t make it out instead of a single narrator who has the best odds of being the final girl simply because she’s telling us this story.

The mystery is also rather weak following the same issues I mention above, the motive could have been absolutely anything. Truly if you take out 3 pages you can make the entire reasoning behind the murders something completely different and the entire 98% of the story isn’t affected and maybe that works for some people but for me it waters down the foreshadowing or clues in mysteries that I like looking for as we go.

An interesting idea that may have needed a bit more time baking to truly be great but hopefully the next reader finds it enjoyable.

*special thanks to the publishers and netgalley for providing an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review**

This book will grab your attention from the start and doesn't start until the final page. You will be reading each page and thinking you have it figured out and then, BAM!, another twist.

The book follows a group of teenage co-workers that are working their last shift at a movie theater in a mall that has already shut down for remodeling. The kids end up fighting for their lives while the killer hunts them down throughout the deadly trapped mall. All doors are barricaded and their are deadly obstacles at every turn. Not everyone will make it out alive.

This was such a great YA book, it was hard to stop reading and put down. It keeps you guessing on who is going to live and who will end up dead.

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks for this ARC and a chance to provide a honest review.

I normally love this author. We have several of her books in our collection, but there was such an issue of pacing.

I knew I was in trouble when the first chapter felt interminable and the pace did not pick up from there.

A YA locked-room thriller that keeps you on your toes the entire time.

A group of coworkers are closing down the movie theater they all work at for the last time- as the whole development is headed for demolition tomorrow. Suddenly the lights go out & terror ensues. As is the title of the book, we all know four will die tonight. Who will it be?

Plot seemed a little far-fetched at times, but for YA- well-written & kept my interest!

Thanks NetGalley for this arc in exchange for an honest review!

My very first job was at a movie theatre, so I was really excited to read this. My mistake was thinking that this was going to be more of a mystery, but you know within a few pages who the bad guy is so it's more of a tense thriller. I didn't love Jo as our main character, though (without giving away any spoilers) why she does what she does is explained very well. While I would have liked more of an epilogue or final wrap up, I did like the little news snips, etc. that were placed in to help get a feel of how everything played out after the fact.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc. This was a perfectly fine thriller. It was great at building tension. I liked how each character had a detailed past. I struggled a bit with the letters and the ending but a good read

Are we in big trouble? This book was everything I hoped for, alittle romance, murder, mystery and fun. River view theaters staff is locked in for their lastnight of cleaning if they make it out alive.. The story is told by Jo whose character I loved. I loved the book if you like mysteries you’ll love this. It will keep you guessing right until the end.

This was such a fun read. I loved the setting, the characters. I was on the edge of my seat for the entire book. I could not put it down

Thank you to the publisher, the author and NetGalley for this ARC!
This book was a fun read; it kept me hooked and I liked the characters a lot. I recommend going in as blind as possible and enjoying the book!

This book was a rollercoaster for sure! I liked the plot, it reminded me a little bit of Five Nights at Freddy's but with a love killer. The writing felt a little juvenile and all over the place at times but overall I enjoyed this book. It was a fast read and I think teens who like suspenseful books will love it!

It’s their last night as movie theater employees, when dark things begin to happen. Each character was so well written and it was so easy to imagine them in real life. Full of twists and turns and endless creepy. I love when a book gets your heart racing. The thriller part was there, the scares and goosebumps were there, but towards the end of the book though, I was a little disappointed as it kept getting repetitive. It was easy to predict as the killer was introduced right from the start. I didn’t like the articles throughout the book, as they gave no answers at all. Just reiterating things we already knew.
Overall I think it was a great quick read! I will be trying the authors other books as I heard they are even better!

This is the fifth Natalie D. Richards book I usually enjoy her books but this one fell a little flat for me. I just did not like the over all story. It just felt like a boring thriller book to me. I found myself not really caring about or connecting with the characters. I am so sad I didn't love this book because I wanted to. I will keep reading more books by her. This one was just not the best.