Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.
So I was kind of expecting more thriller and mystery from this. It took till the very end of the book to really understand what the entire thing was about. I feel like that part is the only thing that saved this book.
The ending brought up some very good points and explanations.
However the book itself was very different from the description and what I expected.
Narrator did a good job.

I’ve been waiting to get my hands on this! I finished it in one night and afternoon. It was a quick but meaningful read.

After a plane crash, several student athletes are stuck on an island. They’re high school age so we have a little Lord of the Flies going on. They’re somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico and the more privileged among them assume they’ll be found immediately but the more humble kids know they need to conserve resources.

By day 3, even the most optimistic are accepting that their fate is to be on that island for a while. Then weird things start to happen. They could be mistaken for accidents but it appears that someone is angry and making them pay but who and why?

I am partial to “stuck on an island” stories. I’m a Big Brother and Survivor fan so I love social experiments and anytime they’re stuck on an island, you have to wonder if they’ve been out there. The title says No Accident but I don’t think that fully covers the depth of the situation.

At its core, it’s a story about the vulnerability of being a girl. Being stuck with these guys, even though they’re friends, is risky without the laws of the land at home. Heck, it’s risky there too.

With flashbacks to the past woven in with the present, we get the full scope of the dynamics at play without a long, drawn-out backstory to build the characters, which I appreciate.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to listen and review! The narration was great and I’ll be looking for more from this author, fiction and nonfiction.

Unfortunately this one isn't going to work for me. While the topic is important, I was shocked to learn that's what it was really about. I was expecting a true survivalist story with the island as the focus, not rape culture. It kind of gives you whiplash to know that that is what is introduced in the second half. This is a trigger warning topic for me and I am glad that I read reviews ahead of time. Laura is a talented author as displayed through the accolades of her other works but this one just wasn't for me because of the content and the age range.