After many years of constant moving with her dad, Lennox Oliver seems to have finally landed in a place where she feels normal and is making friends. She and her new friends attend her first ever teen party and on the drive home she hears the lore of Hicks Road and all the spooky things that have happened there. As a prnak, one of them turns off her headlights and she thinks she's hit something or someone. But nothing can be found, except the dent in the front of her car. The twists and turns of this story are well placed and the pacing keeps the reader guessing until the very end. I highly recommend this for mystery/thriller YA readers!

I raced through this pleasantly quick YA thriller, eager to learn what would happen next. I was astonished to learn that, contrary to what I had assumed, I had not foreseen the major twist.

I'm not upset by the true huge twist, even if it seems almost unbelievable and is extremely extreme in a teen soap opera sort of way. Despite not always being realistic, big drama is entertaining.

Overall, I loved reading this book and was happy to discover that I had already read something similar by the author. Definitely excited to read more of her writing!

This was a very intriguing mystery. The author used our perceptions to lure us with false trails. I was constantly second guessing myself and I have to admit, I didn't figure out the ending.
This is a great story about mental illness, families, and friendships. I was constantly intrigued and stymied. I enjoyed the romance, fun friendship stuff and the close relationship with a parent. It all worked together to make a great story.
Enjoy!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for granting me a copy of this book in return for my honest opinion.

Have just gotten into this gonre and this one was so good. Had me on the edge of my seat. I just had to keep reading to see what happened next.

Not a light read an be prepared to be emersed. Will have you reading into the wee hours of the morning.

Recommend.

This was so repetitive and it was slow for a young adult book. I was shocked at how bored I was the entire time and I did not end up finishing

So I really was excited about this book, but I was just a couple of things that made it a little bit underwhelming for me. The first was that it was so repetitive. The number of times it almost the exact same paragraph appeared in the book was enough to make me feel like I was going as crazy as the main character. The book comes in at about 400 pages and it definitely could have been 200. There was a point at which I definitely had a pretty good idea of where it was going but then it still took another hundred pages to get there. The premise is very cool, new girl in a new town with seemingly new friends and a popular boyfriend, but with her history and her family history of mental illness when things start going wrong after an accident on a deserted road. She starts to question her sanity. I was lucky enough to get an ARC of this book and so maybe some of these issues will be sorted out in the final draft, but there were some inconsistencies in the story that felt like it hadn’t been fully edited yet.

Lennox is the new girl at school. She's been the new girl at a lot of schools. This is the first school she went with friends to a haunted road though. That night she remembers seeing a blonde girl with ice blue eyes, and accidentally hitting her with het car. But there wad no sign of the girl. Except the dent in her car's grill. Since that night, she can't stop wondering if there really was a girl or not. And everything else around her seems to be slipping into the same type of delusion--people, possessions, memories, conversations . . . She began to worry that she might be losing her mind. Just like her mom had . . .

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I LOVE psychological thrillers in which the narrator/POV character are unreliable. And this book executed that so perfectly, but it took it a step further. The ENTIRE cast was unreliable. But I couldn't tell if that was because Lennox was off or because there was some bigger conspiracy. It made reading this so much fun. I was kept guessing to the end. A must read!

Another quick YA thriller

My students at school have been begging for thrillers and mysteries, so I’ve been on the hunt for a bunch to start my year with for next year. I enjoyed the plotline of this one. Does it need some editing? Sure. But overall I thought it was an okay read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the advance copy of What Happened on Hicks Road. I didn’t enjoy this much it was very predictable and boring at times but it was a short book so I finished reading it.

Oof. This book had an amazing opportunity to shed light on schizophrenia and how it impacts a person and their family. Instead of helping to destigmatize this mental health disorder, the author went in the completely opposite direction. Her depictions of mental health, and Lennox stating over and over that she’s not “crazy” like her mom, were extremely off putting and made it impossible for me to engage with the rest of the story.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Hannah Jayne's "What Happened on Hicks Road" didn't grab me at first but I'm glad I stuck with it. Good read.

The synopsis for this book sounded so fun!
I love a good urban legend, and Hicks Road has a darn good one (Hint: It involves cannibalism!) Unfortunately, the story veers off in a different direction, and the legend is never explored. Bummer!

Also a bummer... The blah story. It was so repetitive and boring. The conclusion to all of it wasn't great either, and the ending was (If I'm being generous) open-ended (if I'm not being generous) incomplete.

I've read another book by this author (The Escape), and in both books, she has described mental illness in offensive ways. I don't think it's intention, but it is off-putting.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a story about when pranks go wrong. Sadie is a normal girl until the night it happens. This a book that will have you reading faster than you can turn the pages. An exciting read from beginning to end.

What Happened On Hicks Road, by Hannah Jayne
2/5⭐️⭐️

TRIGGER WARNINGS-
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Murder, death, mental illness, schizophrenia

Lennox and her dad move into a new town in California and she's ready to start fresh, yet again. She finally has some friends, even a boyfriend and somewhat of a social life; but during a drive one night she hits something or someone. Her friends said that they didn't see anyone and that it was probably just an animal. Lennox however is convinced that she saw the person she hit and now she's seeing her everywhere. Is she real or is Lennox slipping into the mental illness that plagues her mother?

This book was just not it. It was hard to push through and finish. It was slightly confusing because it felt like the author's thoughts were going everywhere. There was really no depth to any of the characters and there wasn't much of a plot, there was a lot of pointless, repetitive filler. It was pretty much a 175-ish pages out of the 200 page book of Lennox thinking that she's going crazy and saying she's seeing the girl she thinks she hit. The end of the book was the best part probably, (even though it was a tad predictable), where most of the action happened, but yet it still didn't wrap up some things.
Also Lennox's dad all of a sudden got a name when he was referred to as her dad for the first 3/4 of the book, now that confused the heck out of me as I was wondering who the heck Charlie was.

Thank you to Sourcebooks Fire and NetGalley for giving me an E-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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The plotline of this is very basic, as is the writing style. I did not enjoy how the story is structured, basically in real-time. It felt like a wattpad story at times, and could really benefit from some polishing. The characters were undeveloped, and the plot dragged. It was a quick read, though.

Heart pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Definitely one of the best books this year.

Review: Let me start by saying thanks to @sourcebooksfire and @netgalley for my advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. I feel like this book needs to go through another round of editing. Between the typos and grammatical errors, it was really hard for me to stay engrossed in this book. On top of that, through the first 160 pages of a 200 page book, Lennox’s dad was just known as Lennox’s dad. Then he was given the name Charlie. He didn’t really have any interactions with any of the other characters in the book except for Lennox, so I feel that he should have just been kept as Lennox’s dad. I had to read a few paragraphs a couple of times because I wasn’t sure what was going on. Then the ending did not wrap anything up and I am even more confused. This book just wasn’t for me…

I honestly was hoping that this book would go a different way. What I read was very different than what I had thought it might be about.

I didn’t really like the ending i felt like we had gone back and fourth between Sadie thinking that she is crazy, I think the ending was predictable honestly and I found the book lacking. But either way I am thankful to Netgalley for letting me read it!

She’s the new girl in town and what was suppose to be a fun prank on a supposedly haunted road ends up turning into something much darker when she might have hit someone with her car.... but she can’t tell and she feels like she is going crazy. Lennox Oliver has just moved to California and has started a new year in school. Three weeks in and she is invited to a party by her new friends who decide to take a drive down the supposedly haunted Hicks Road. But things take a turn for the worse when Lennox hit something, she swears she saw a girl but there is no body and the other two girls in the car are convinced it was a deer or something else. The only evidence is that Lennox’s car has a small dent in it and she swore she saw some blood. But the more she tries to investigate the more those around her try to get her to believe it was nothing, she feels like she can’t even rely on her memory... did she hit a girl? Who is leaving her notes? What can she trust and can she get down to the truth of what happened on Hick’s Road? This was a pretty interesting mystery as one girl tries to figure out what really happened and everyone around her is making her feel like she is insane. Her memory is unreliable so she has to try and figure out what is actually the truth from what is fiction. The twist at the end though was ehhhhhh I didn’t really like the true villain and the overall reasoning, it felt very CW Teen drama, but if you are into that sort of thing then definitely pick it up!

*Thanks Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire, Sourcebooks Fire for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

Thrilling from beginning to end! Talk about a modern day telling of Gaslight! What Happened on Hicks Road is a delightfully fast YA thriller that had me speeding through it, desperate to find out what happens next. I thought I had predicted the big twist, but I was shocked to discover I really hadn’t. The true big twist is borderline unbelievable and just intensely out there in a teen soap opera kind of way, but I’m not mad at it. Big drama is fun, even if it isn’t always realistic. Overall, I had a fun time reading this book and was pleased to see that I’d read something else by this author I’ve enjoyed before. Definitely looking forward to reading more of her work!