Unfortunately this book fell flat for me. I love a good thriller but this one just seemed to drag on a bit for me personally.

The premise of the book seemed great but it did not grip me in the way I want a thriller to do. The “surprise twist” just felt very anti-climactic.

I was not a fan of the ending and how it left everything so open ended with Red and Arthur. I honestly felt like I read the whole book for nothing.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Children's for giving me a chance to read and review this book.

Holly Jackson is one of my favorite authors and I was beyond excited to see she wrote a new book. This book was everything I wanted, needed, and hoped it would be. Hands down one of my top favorites this year AND I will be recommending this book to a lot of people. I'm excited to see if maybe a sequel will come out, fingers crossed!

Wow, just wow. I need to start off with a concern before I go into this book. I understand it is listed as Teen and YA, but I'm concerned that the younger YA group is going to read this. I guess the author has built a rep surrounding murder cases. That would deter the younger minds, but I'm worried what this will do to minds even in high school. I'll leave my thoughts on that there, and actually get to the feedback part.
I loved it. I mean the tension was there throughout the whole book. It had the same creepy, twisty vibes of AGGGTM trilogy. It was exactly what I was hoping to find. Holly Jackson does not disappoint, and I will forever be buying her books.
Thank you for the opportunity and taking me on another great adventure. I cannot wait to share my thoughts with my readership and watch their minds explode as they find out the truth behind this size friends trapped inside a thirty-one foot RV.
I hope this review helps! Happy Reading and Blessed Be.
Lily Ashtree

WOW! Let me start with, Holly Jackson knows how to write thrillers. I particularly enjoyed this one because it is set in South Carolina, which is where I’m from. It made the book even more intense thinking about this happening just up the street.

The characters were crazy, all with their hidden secrets. I truly felt scared and stressed in ways that I have never felt while reading this book. The way Jackson builds out suspense is unreal!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of Five Survive.

I was so excited to receive this! I really love the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and I was so happy to be reading something else from this author.

Unfortunately, this didn’t work for me. I think my expectations were a little too high. I really liked the setup of the characters being stuck in an RV with a shooter outside but the characters felt really one dimensional. We spent a lot of time with them but I didn’t feel like we got to really know them. I wasn’t rooting for any of them so nothing felt very high stakes to me. Oliver honestly ruined a lot of this book for me. He was such an annoying, in your face character and I realize this may be on purpose but it got to be too much. I also didn’t enjoy the plot twist or the reasoning behind what was happening. It was too repetitive for me.

Overall, I wish it had worked for me but it didn’t.

I was so excited to receive this advance reader copy of a Holly Jackson book! I have heard nothing but wonderful things from my GoodReads buddies and this book was clearly NO EXCEPTION. Five Survive was such a fun thriller with so many twists and turns! A perfect spooky book for this winter!

This book was absolutely insane!!! My heart was literally racing till the end, I’m surprised I haven’t gone into cardiac arrest!!
For real though, I’ve read Holly Jackson’s other books so my expectations were pretty high going in, but I thankfully wasn’t disappointed! Five Survive was SUCH a page turner. Like, once I got involved in the story, there was no prying it from my hands until I knew what was going to happen next.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an advance copy of Five Survive. I have loved Holly Jackson's other work, and I was really looking forward to this one; unfortunately, I think my expectations were just too high. I like the premise of Five Survive, but I struggled to care about the characters. I think if I had seen more of their relationships prior to being in the RV, maybe through flashback, I would have felt more connected to them. And why did Red have such a problem with her memory? Had she always been that way, or was it an aftereffect of losing her mother? The second half of the book picked up for me, and I enjoyed that portion of it. I will purchase this because my students are clamoring for more Holly Jackson, but I will be interested to see if they stick with it to the end. It just didn't quite get there for me.

Holly Jackson writes some of the best YA thrillers out there. After AGGGTM, I was hooked. This one follows a teenager named Red and her friends as they attempt an RV trip to Gulf Shores and get derailed in backwoods South Carolina by a crazed gunman. He thinks one of them has a secret and he’s willing to shoot them all in order to get it - but if they can find out who is keeping the secret - the other five will survive.

Super atmospheric, visceral emotion and imagery.

This was amazing! I could not put this book down! Holly Jackson really did it again with this thriller book! I really enjoyed the characters and watching the panic set in as the story folded out, and I really enjoyed the plot twists along the way!

HOLLY JACKSON I LOVE YOU! This was SO compelling. If the main character (Red) doesn’t have ADHD I have no clue how Holly was trying to characterize her because she definitely has ADHD/Anxiety vibes. Anyways, wow. I adored Jackson’s “Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series and fell in love with Pippa, finding so much of myself in her that it built an amazing connection. However, if you’re going into this book expecting it to be the same, it is not what you’re getting. Jackson brings her masterful writing back to the thriller aspect of this book, but I would say the vibes of this one are much more like As Good As Dead than AGGGTM. That said, it’s just as fantastic and anyone who loves thrillers or YA would enjoy this very much. That said, if you’re more of a mystery fan, you may not enjoy this book as much, because despite its mystery elements, it is very much a thriller, or at least reads that way. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for early access to this book.

A Spring Break road trip turns deadly in this addictive, heart-racing YA thriller!
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Six friends leave on a trip, but only five make it out. Secrets are spilled, limes are crossed, choices are made, and no one walks away the same!
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When I tell you I am utterly obsessed with Holly Jackson’s upcoming Nov 29 release, Five Survive, I mean I read it in one sitting (literally didn’t get up), and will be thinking about it for the foreseeable future. GO READ THIS BOOK!
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For my Thriller lover friends, this book’s vibes were No Exit meets In My Dreams I Hold a Knife!
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: N/A (YA Thriller)
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Read if you like:
🤔 Suspicious FMCs
🩸 Blood Chilling Setting
🛣️ Road-trips Gone Wrong
😈 Untrustworthy Characters
🧩 Let’s Play a Game
⛔️ No Way Out
❓ Never Know What’s Next
🤯 Having Your Mind Blow
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THANK YOU to Holly Jackson and Children’s Random House publishing for giving me this ARC via NetGalley! Make sure to read this one when it’s release Nov 29, 2022!

i love her writing and how she pulls you into the story from the very beginning and how fast of a read this book was. I liked how i was never bored to the point I yearned for the reveal; the pacing was done really well.

For the character I love them all but OLIVER hated that man from page one. a walking red flag if I ever seen one.

For the ending I didn’t hate it and actually quite liked the “reveal” but I didn’t like what came after I wanted a more flushed out ending, one that wrapped everything up nicely and didn’t allow me to think about what could happened.

I didn’t enjoy this one like her other books and i say that with a heavy heart because I really, really enjoyed the agggtm series.

Thank you to Holly Jackson, Random House, and NetGalley for giving me an arc of Five Survive.

I already knew I was going to like the book when the first two pages were visual aids (a map and the layout of the RV). The story follows six “friends” as they try to travel to the gulf shores for spring break and inevitably getting lost on a back road and realizing they’re being terrorized by a stranger in the woods.

The premise was super interesting since they only had the RV as a setting and the book took place over a couple of hours. The tension was ramped up knowing that the hours were ticking down. I think the “one of us has a secret” trope is pretty played out, but managed to have a little twist here that made it interesting.

I liked that I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen and only ended up being half right which to me was a perfect mix of believable and good twist. The only thing I didn’t like was how long it took to explain the mirror trick, I think it went on about 2 pages too long and even then I couldn’t even really visualize it.

Overall I think this book was a fun, fast read. I would definitely recommend it to those who like fast paced fun thrillers that get tied up nicely in the end.

Another wonderful novel by Holly Jackson and I cannot wait to read more books by her. Thrilling, quick read.

I LOVED this book. I wish I could say that I read it in eight hours for the challenge but I actually read it much faster than that because I could not put it down. Five Survive is a stand out amongst YA thrillers, coming at you full force with the grit and stakes of an adult thriller whilst simultaneously catering to its teen audience with scary realism.

This was a fun mystery to solve! I loved the entire concept of the book. The friends stuck in an RV, the secret, which of the friends does not make it out alive, etc. I will admit that it did take me a minute to get into it. I felt there was a lot of fluff that was dragging things on a bit, but once I got past that, the twists just kept coming! I did NOT see the ending coming! If you like mysteries, this one will be a good one for your TBR!

This one is so hard for me to review - I wanted to love it. I really truly did. But I didn’t. The characters felt superficial. This was a whole different writer from the one who wrote a good girls guide to murder. Gah!

It unfortunately wasn’t the satisfying read/mystery I was looking for.

Five Survive, a horror novel by Holly Jackson, is fine. The character's don't really develop much and the relationships are more tell than show, but they're fine. I get who they are supposed to be, but like a generic horror movie they are there for the trope, not the development.

The basic premise is that five teenagers/young adults are held basically hostage in a RV until one of them reveals their important secret. While doing so, more than needed reveal their secrets...but usually its extraneous to the actual plot of this book.

We experience the story and the danger of the sniper through the point of view of Red, who I think is supposed to extract the reader's empathy for her sad life, but again, with more telling than showing, I never really felt that connected to her and just found her odd and frustrating. The twist at the end also carried less weight as there was no connection to the character involved.

I did stay up late to finish reading because I did want to figure out the whodunit and not have my dream brain try to figure it out and keep me up with sniper-y nightmares. Overall, it was fine. Kinda like watching a bad horror movie in the background. Don't really need to pay too much attention, and it all wraps up (albeit oddly) at the end.

Thank you so much NetGalley and publishers for letting me read this eArc in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are mine.

Omg the adrenaline rush!! My heart was beating SOO fast reading this. I was honestly getting freaked out right along with all the characters. I kept trying to figure out the plot twists and EVERY TIME I thought I had it, I was proven wrong. And as much as I HATE being wrong, I LOVED being kept on my toes the entire time. There was never a boring moment reading this. It was full of so much suspense and twists and turns and DRAMA. Goodness I loved the drama in this. I know that sounds bad but this book was so dang entertaining. I did find myself getting annoyed with one particular character though. I don’t know if it was intentional that you this person so dang annoying or if it was just me being driven insane from this character. But either way, I loved this new thriller, that was equal parts heart-pounding and heartbreaking, that Holly Jackson blessed us with. Seriously a fast-paced, page turner that will keep you second guessing from start to finish. Definitely read this when it’s published!