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Megan Miranda has a book that is another bestseller. It is clever, with well written plot that has you guessing all throughout the book.

WOW! I have several of Megan Miranda's book on my TBR list and a couple on my shelf that I have recently purchased, but this is the first book by her that I have read. I will be running to grab my copies so I can start reading more!
It was very well written, and I loved the flashback chapters that didn't give anything away until the very end. I found that the characters were realistic, and relatable-their trauma and coping methods felt real. And I totally didn't see the twist coming until the last possible second.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

Ten years ago Cassidy Bent and her classmates were on a field trip, when an unthinkable accident left only nine remaining survivors after the two vans crashed into a ravine. `On the first anniversary of the accident, one of the survivors takes her own life and the remaining eight vow to meet up every year to be there for one another. On the tenth anniversary of the accident there are only seven survivors left to meet up at a beach house in the Outer Banks where they've been holding their anniversary meetings for years. Cassidy almost decides not to go this year, but a last minute text ends up sending her to the Outer Banks to meet up with Oliver, Joshua, Brody, Hollis, Grace and Amaya. Cassidy quickly becomes alarmed that things aren't quite right. Amaya goes missing, she finds a cell phone on the beach, and an impending storm threatens to leave them stuck on island without power or access to the mainland. Told over seven days in the present and seven hours over the course of the accident and the students fight for their lives, The Only Survivors was my favorite Megan Miranda thriller so far!

As always Megan Miranda is a thriller genius. I almost alwaysgive her five stars, I took one back this time becuase it is the frist of her books where I figured out "who done it" before she told me.

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors plunged into a ravine. Now the seven remaining survivors are trying to come to terms with what happened. Someone is hiding something.

Megan Miranda is a hit or miss from me. I either really love her books or I really dislike them. It was the latter in this case. This one really struggled to keep my attention. I didn't feel super connected to the characters or story. I found the flow to be a bit confusing. I do think many will enjoy this one, it just wasn't for me.

I have loved many Megan Miranda books. This one was my least favorite. I simply struggled to connect with anything in this story. Her writing, particularly in the beginning, felt needlessly bloated. The beginning reminded me of a student that is desperately grasping at word to try and meet a word count for an essay. I did think that things started to pick up and resemble Megan's other books around the 10 % mark. Now, it might seem as though I did not like the book. The truth is quite the opposite. I enjoyed the book after the 10% of the beginning, which was rough to get through. Over all, story wise it was a 3.9, which I rounded up to four stars.
Pros-
Good Characters
Good Editing - after the 10 % in
Good flow story wise

Cons-
The beginning was difficult to get through
The characters were a little bland

10 years ago, tragedy struck a high school senior class trip and many classmates and teachers passed away. 9 students were lucky to survivor and each year on the anniversary of accident of the remaining people gather in the Outer Banks. On the first anniversary, one of the survivors dies by suicide and now at the 10th anniversary, another survivor has passed.

The remaining 7 get together, but the vibes are just off. Amaya goes missing almost immediately and Cassidy tries to get in touch with her with no success. Cassidy regrets coming to OBX and had even blocked most of the survivors and even changed her number to get away from the horrible memories. It’s only when she hears Ian has also passed that she returns. She doesn’t even admit to her boyfriend where she is, and tells him she’s on a business trip.

There’s the threat of a massive storm coming their way and Amaya is still missing. She wouldn’t do this to them after all they have been through. So what’s going on?

I really liked this book! It’s got different POVs and it flashes back to each person at the original accident. I liked that they weren’t really friends, but bonded together after this life changing accident they all survived.

Megan Miranda is one of my favorite authors and this was a shining example of her work.Thank you so much to @marysuericcibooks @bookclubfavorites and @meganmiranda for my gifted copy! The Only Survivors is out April 11!

I really enjoyed The Only Survivors. It was fast paced and kept me guessing the entire time. I liked that it gave you snips of the past along with what was going on in the present. I have read a few Megan Miranda books and I will definitely be reading more! I would highly recommend this book to those who love mystery and thrillers. I am so thankful to have been given and advance readers copy of this novel through NetGalley.

When you can't save everyone, how do you choose who to save?

The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda dives deep into the darkness to find the secrets hidden within this group of survivors. What really happened that night, and who is after the truth ten years later?

*I received an advanced reader copy of this book from NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

“A mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.”

Cassidy and her classmates reunite once a year as a sort of support group for the survivors of a tragic accident. By the 10th anniversary only 7 of the 9 survivors remain. This twisty mystery keeps you questioning everyone’s motives.

This is my third Megan Miranda book and I really enjoyed this one! Definitely a slow-burn but it kept me guessing. This will definitely be a fun beach read this summer. I liked getting snippets of the past told in reverse order to work your way back through the mystery! Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

Megan Miranda fans, rejoice! She's back with a new thriller perfect for spring and summer reading session. If you enjoyed any of her past publications, then you have a good chance of eating this one right up too.

One thing that I loved about the first thriller I read by Megan, All the Missing Girls, was that the story was revealed to us backwards. I had quite the revelation when I realized a portion of this story was being revealed to us in a similar fashion!

So many characters are placed within this story to throw the reader off from sniffing out the "villain." I had a good feeling I was onto something halfway through and I was glad to see I was heading in the right direction with my thoughts. There were even a few plot twists I didn't see coming that added to the suspense of what really happened on that night a decade ago between these survivors.

Towards the end it did become overwhelming with information being thrown at us which I have to admit became a bit confusing to keep track of it all. The action really unfolds in the concluding chapters of the book and it goes from a slow burn to unputdownable at rapid speed. Megan always does a fantastic job of leading the reader on a thriller tale that you think you've seen before but are led in an entirely different direction than the rest of the pack.

I read The Last to Vanish last year, the first of Miranda's books for me. They make me feel much the way I used to feel when I was powering through Mary Higgins Clark nearly two decades ago now. Nothing is terribly exciting, but the stories are comfortable and diverting. They don't really stick with me, but they're fun to read and you know what you're getting.

I would recommend this one for fans of the slew of "a decade ago, this thing happened to this group of friends and now there's some catalyst for them coming back together to rehash" books. (Like In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, What Have We Done, The It Girl.)

It was a good book at the end, it took me a while to get into it always going back and fourth and normally I don’t have to much of a problem with that but I felt like this happened to much in this book, but it was a good book overall!

Survivors of a horrible accident share a "pact" to stay together and protect each other. The story revolves around the anniversary week when it all unravels.

Love a book that keeps you guessing. I thought I knew the villian - several different times. But didn't see the ending coming.
Great thriller.

And here I was thinking Miranda's last novel was her best... I have been proven wrong and 1 am so happy about it! Amazing prose, truly fun story, and characters worth writing about. Thank you for writing this!

I was hooked on this book from the first page. I couldn’t wait to get home from work so I could keep reading. I thought ti was very well written and I loved the alternating timelines. I’ve already recommended it to my bookworm friends. Loved this ARC, thank you NetGalley!

This one is so hard to review!!

Okay okay, this one is going to be hard for me to review…so here goes nothin’. I LOVE Miranda’s syntax and writing style. It’s elegant, makes you think, and really engage with the story. I absolutely couldn’t get into this book, though, and I’m struggling with why. I really think it was due to lack of characterization. I couldn’t connect or even empathize with anyone in this book so I really didn’t care about what happened. I also think it needed to up the suspense Miranda was attempting to create. If this suspense had been more page-turning and heart-racing, I may have been able to get behind it. I thought the plot was unique and interesting, but overall couldn’t buy in. There were some holes that bugged me, but if I mention them they will spoil for others, so I will leave it here.

Thank you for the ARC! I already have this one preordered!

Ohhh I tore through Megan Miranda's latest book THE ONLY SURVIVORS, gobbling it up in a day, including a late night because I could not put it down!

why my nose was in this book:
I loved the idea of a group of people, who come together once a year, to mourn, commiserate, reflect? on a tragedy that binds them together when they were teenagers
The character POVs from the past offered a fun glimpse into each truth, causing a slew of unreliable characters and more fun to figure out who was being truthful and who was not
I'm a sucker for locked room mysteries, particularly if there is a storm, a power outage, some spooky element to add to the already building suspense
The surprise gotcha moments kept coming, leading up to one final crescendo

Let me start by saying that the “group of friends experience tragedy and then a decade later are forced to uncover their secrets and recon with the consequences” is one of my favorite thriller tropes. It never gets old to me.

A decade ago 7 high school students survived a tragic car accident on a school trip that left multiple students and teachers dead. After one of the survivors takes their own life on the first anniversary of the accident, the survivors make a pact to come together each year to commemorate the event. On the 10th anniversary, the survivors notice a shift, and what once was an annual refuge becomes unrelenting suspicion and a race to find who of the survivors can be trusted.

I can always count on Megan Miranda to give me an exciting popcorn thriller that has me ready to cancel my plans so I can finish the book. What set this book out from others that explore this same trope is that the tragedy truly was just that, a tragedy. There’s no obvious murder or foul play which added to the mystery.

I will say I guessed one twist pretty early on, but not the other. This book definitely kept me on my toes and was overall a really fun read. You can find this one on shelves on April 11th. Shoutout to NetGalley I received this digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3.75 ⭐️

Megan Miranda's books can be hit or miss for me sometimes, but THE ONLY SURVIVORS is a hit to be sure. I really like how Miranda finds interesting ways to tell a story, this time implementing a mostly continuous present POV of Cassidy, our protagonist, but also bringing in flashbacks to the accident that she and her old classmates survived through THEIR perspectives. It makes it so that we can see all sides of what happened on the night that they all shared a horrible trauma, and so we can slowly piece together just what it is they are hiding or trying to protect. While there were some twists and reveals that I figured out pretty handily, there were others that did catch me by surprise. I liked Cassidy a lot, but could have used more insight into the other characters as a lot of them came off pretty two dimensional. This is the perfect kind of thriller to take on a vacation this summer, as it's breezy and quick and easy to follow.

THE ONLY SURVIVORS is another solid serviceable mystery from Megan Miranda. Be sure to take this one in your beach bag during vacation season!