Loved this book so so much. I love anything Julie Soto writes and this was such a refreshing read to see her step outside of her usual. I hope and pray we get more in this world as i am not ready to move on from the Thrashers just yet.

This book follows a group of five who call themselves the thrashers. The story opens with the suicide of Emily Mills. It was mysterious, fast paced, and hooked me right in from the beginning. The ending was a shocker!

This was a fast paced addicting YA thriller and I honestly read it one day! It kept me turning pages and even though YA thrillers can be hard sometimes due to how young they feel this one kept pushing through that with the super quick pacing. It was also nice to see a younger character eventually take ownership for their behavior and accept the consequences. Overall highly recommend if you’re looking for a fast paced page turner and you’re ok with it being YA!

Julie Soto writes it and I will read it. This had so many subtle nods to nostalgic teen thriller movies and to specific characters you shipped that were not even remotely connected that way in those movies.

I found I had no idea where the book was going and I enjoyed every moment of the journey. That ending left me needing another book and I will be on the edge of my seat until Julie gives us a crumb of info on the next one.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was amazing!! I read it in one day and could not put it down. The little bit of supernaturalness was so well done and the characters and twists I ate up like my life depended on it. I’m hoping there’s a sequel?? I also feel like the ending worked so well and I found myself rooting for all the main characters even when they were wrong.

I just adore Julie Soto’s writing and will continue to buy and support everything she does!

Thank you to the author, publisher and @netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

@juliesotowrites could write a grocery list and I would read it. And the fact that she’s branched out in her genres and still writes bangers is just amazing.

This YA thriller is fast paced and loaded with tension. To me it’s kind of like if Pretty Little Liars and Saved by the Bell had a baby, that baby would be The Thrashers. I’ve also seen comparisons to 13 Reasons Why.

Soto expertly handles not only tough topics, but such nuanced social interactions and laters upon layers of high school drama. This was well done and a totally bingeable read.

I did enjoy the dynamics for this book, even though made me hate all teenagers.

Its ok the characters are really obnoxious. Jodi our main character is playing delulu most of the book, until ACTUALLY I realised that I did this things.

I really love the paranormal part of it.

LOVED! This is Julie Soto's first YA thriller and she did a great job! I love YA thrillers and this is such a good one! I found the characters and premise ot be great and loved the supernatural elements.

A departure for romance writer, Julie Soto, The Thrashers can be called one of the best books of the summer if you enjoy high-stakes YA thrillers and characters you love to hate.

While a little out of my regular reading, I think this one is perfect for any YA thriller lover. Chilling and twisty, Soto delivers on the book's premise and the break-neck pacing will keep pages turning. I totally agree with the reviews comparing this to PLL!

This was a great ya mystery and thriller with a some paranormal elements mixed in. The mystery kept me on my toes and had me coming back for more and continuing to wonder what happened to Emily Mills. I also really enjoyed the Thrasher friend group and their individual relationships with each other and how they shift throughout the book as the mysteries and secrets come to life.

If I'm being honest, I requested this book without realizing that it is a YA book. For that reason I put off reading it for far too long. Holy smokes this book is SO GOOD! I was hooked from the beginning and could not put it down. It was shocking and twisty and the paranormal aspect really made it so much more interesting than a typical thriller book. I wish I could give it 100 stars. Julie Soto can do no wrong and is now an auto buy author for me.

The Thrashers (my first book) by Julie Soto in quick, rapid-fire thoughts.

When no other book was holding my attention or my interest, this book sucked me in, held me captive and didn't spit me out until I was done!

Ugh! This friendship group sums up what high school is like! "Either you're in or you're out," would sum up just about everyone's experience!

Completely freaked me out when I read this one night - in the best possible way!

The ending was fun, and had me rethinking exactly when certain things happened.

(I heard a rumour about a possible sequel - and I'm firmly planting myself on that team, because I must spend more time with these characters!)

I was once again reminded why I love and adore YA thrillers so much!

Thank you NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Wednesday Books for the complimentary copies to read and review.

Julie Soto is a great writer and I love how she can genre hop, that being said, I feel like this is the weakest thing I’ve read from her. I may be too old for this so people who are in the YA age range will have more luck with this! I definitely think it’s enjoyable but just not for me so I am DNFing for now and hope to come back to it later!

I couldn't finish this book. I realized that it's not for me, and I didn't agree with the content of the story. It was disappointing and not what I was expecting.

ARC Review - out today!

This book follows The Thrashers, a group of 5 friends who were coined that term because they were all led by Zack Thrasher. Jodi is out of place in the group but remains as Zack’s longest friend. After a student dies (tw: suicide) at the school, stories start coming out about how the Thrashers caused this, and everything starts to unravel.

Wow. This book was ADDICTING! I couldn’t put it down, and when I did all I wanted to do was come back and read more. All of the characters were unlikable in their own way, but you couldn’t help but root for them in the end.

Highly recommend picking this one up, you won’t regret it!

I was really looking forward to reading this book, but sadly, I was not happy when I finished. This review may get a bit spoilery, so skip it if you want to read the book. The premise of the book is that there is a popular group called The Thrashers in the local high school. Emily desperately wants to be a part of the group. When she dies, the Thrashers are blamed for it after the police read her journal. Of course, there is more to her death and the truth in the end is a direction that I couldn't get behind.

Suicide as a form as revenge is not a likable plotline. All of the teens in this book were horrible, even Jodi. She made some really poor decisions. Of course the golden boy Zach gets away with his crime and Julian, the only semi-likable character, gets the worst ending. It made me want to through my book across the room. I really would not recommend this book.

2⭐️

*Sadly, a minority review*

The Thrashers…The Thrashers…The Thrashers…Where in the world do I begin???

To be frank, I have no idea who Julie Soto is as an author. Upon reading this book, I found out that she is a Romance Author. So, one can color me surprise that she has decided to not only write a thriller/murder mystery novel but also decided to make her debut in the YA genre this year. Good for her. And while I do believe that Julie Soto is a wonderful writer, I might have to make this my one and only book that I read by her (unless she makes a sequel for this particular book).

I am aware that my ARC review is past the publication date. So, yes, I’ve had time to skim both ARC reviews and post publication date reviews and I’ve come to discover that it’s the 4 and 5⭐️ reviews that motivated me to push this one forward. It’s the 4 and 5⭐️ reviews that keep reminding me of how books are the one thing that carry a subjective quality. It’s the 4 and 5⭐️reviews that have me saying “I am so glad that someone liked this book because I did not!!!”

Ugh. I am so disappointed right now. This book only gets good towards the last few chapters, which helped me bump this up from a 1 ⭐️ to a 2 ⭐️. I am the type of reader who needs more than the last 20% of a book to keep me entertained.

When I first read the title of this book, I thought that I was going to be reading about some popular, rich siblings whose last name is Thrasher (definitely not the case). When I saw the cover, I thought I was going to be reading a dark academia book where a murder takes place and these Thrasher siblings are to blame (again, there are no Thrasher siblings and there really isn’t a murder). After finishing the Prologue, I thought I was going to be staying up late to devour a book where our main character (Jodi Dillon) was going to turn into a detective and spend this whole book trying to solve the “so-called” murder. All my expectations went out the window after I finished Chapter 2. No way is an adult cop allowed to bully a 17 year old girl all because said cop may or may not have been bullied by the popular crowd during her high school career. No way can cops use name calling and play on a teenager’s insecurities just to get information out of said teenager. And there definitely is no way that cops can just call up the media and think it’s okay to ruin 5 high schoolers lives without truly having all of the facts about a crime/case. Officer Chelsea Harding and her cop buddies will go down as some of the WORST written law enforcement officers in a YA murder mystery novel.

And let’s not get me started on the main character and her 4 “friends” (Zachary Thrasher; Lucy Reed; Paige Montgomery; and Julian Hollister). No one had a personality. These characters were hated just because some of their classmates were miserable and had nothing better to do with their own lives. To be honest, all 5 of these characters were all teenagers who smoke and drank “under” the bleachers. They were teenagers whose parents were absent at the worst times in their lives. They were teenagers who were awful not just towards themselves/each other but also towards others who dared to get too close. And while I wasn’t a fan of none of the characters in this book, I will say that the female friendships were done with taste. Then we soon had to add Emily Mills (the alleged victim) into the picture, which only made these characters, as a groups, worse. I don’t know how I am supposed to feel about Emily. This girl lied a lot, was too nosy for her own good, was obsessed with both Zachary Thrasher and Jodi Dillon, kept weird little journals, and motivated her sister to be weird too. Emily Mills made me so uncomfortable that I wanted to DNF this after I encountered her 2nd journal entry.

Ugh. And the romance subplot was just gross. A BULLY-TO-LOVER RELATIONSHIP IS NOT ROMANTIC!!! There is no way in this world that a male bully can be forgiven quickly after spending 3 years humiliating the girl he so-called “loves.” Nope. Nope. Nope.

Yes. This book is binge worthy, attention grabbing, and the audiobook narrators are perfect. However, the book, itself, is juvenile (at best), annoying (at worst), problematic (at the center), and makes me truly thankful to have survived high school when I did!!!

Thank you NetGalley and Wednesday Books for granting my request for an Advance Reader’s Copy of this book in exchange for my honest and personal opinion!!!

The Thrashers are THE clique to be in, and no one is REALLY in apart from Zack, Julian, Lucy, Paige, and Jodi. Jodi has never really felt like she's fit in, but she's been best friends with Zack for forever. Enter Emily Mills. Emily is obsessive and tiresome and tries her hardest to be part of the group, especially concerning Zack, but when she commits suicide on prom night, everything The Thrashers thought they had is taken away. Rumors and theories abound...how much were the Thrashers involved, why did Emily do it, why does the group feel like they're being haunted? The Thrashers is a captivating thrill-ride with a touch of the supernatural, and I could not put it down.

I had forgotten how much I liked YA thrillers, and this just brought it back, baby. I will now be reading through more of the YA thrillers that have been sitting on my shelf unread, and I do sincerely wish that there will be a followup to this novel. Soto sure can genre-swap.

This a YA thriller very much like all YA thrillers, but the writing and the story are strong. The relationship drama, the romantic subplot, the pure amount of angst through this book, in the most ominous and spooky supernatural way, and the thrill of the whodunnit were executed perfectly. I did have quite a bit of suspicion who was behind the little twist at the end, but I'm not sure it was really supposed to be a mystery to the reader, more to the characters; there was definitely an amount of dramatic irony, even though we are in Jodi's head, who is a character who really does have the least amount of information and has to uncover a lot throughout the story.

This was such a deep dive into teenage social dynamics and high school cliques, and even though we were reading about the popular group that we all love to hate, Soto made me care about every single one these characters, while simultaneously yelling at them for acting the way they did. Love reading those morally ambiguous and flawed characters that the author makes you love regardless.

I was definitely expecting there to be a bit more romantic plotline given Soto is mainly a romance writer, but given it's YA, also not surprising. The subplot of romance was really well done, I was definitely rooting for a certain couple...but the TWIST at the end made me seriously question.

The conclusion wrapped up nicely, and there was a jaw-dropping twist on the very last pages that has made me desperate for more... although it wasn't a cliffhanger. It definitely could segue into another story, or it was a VERY interesting way to make the reader imagine the story through a whole new lens. It has definitely made me want to reread and reexamine. If you like YA thrillers, this is definitely one to pick up!

*I received this eARC from NetGalley and am providing an honest review.*

I couldn’t put this book down! The pacing was fantastic. It definitely has a Pretty Little Liars vibe to the story and that held my interest and kept me turning the pages.

The main character, Jodi felt real and I felt like I knew her and understood her actions and motivations.

I will say I was expecting some huge mind blowing plot twist, and there is one, it is not super huge. The ending has me wondering if we’ll see more of these characters.