Author: Natalie D. Richards
Publication Date: 6 October 2020
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Page Count: 320
Reading Method: Physical ARC
Synopsis:
When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with a group of friendly college kids who were on her initial flight.
As the drive progresses and weather conditions become more treacherous, Mira realizes that the four other passengers she’s stuck in the car with don’t actually know one another.
Soon, they’re not just dealing with heavy snowfall and ice-slick roads, but the fact that somebody will stop at nothing to ensure their trip ends in a deadly disaster.
Review:
this was fast-paced, unnerving, and completely had me hooked! We’ve got a cast of 5 individuals, stranded at the airport due to weather delays, who decide to rent a car together and drive home for the holidays. The problem is, things start to go missing, people don’t seem to be who they said they were, and the roads are ridiculously treacherous.
The writing kept me in suspense the entire time. There are letters scattered throughout the main story, written to our MC, that are completely unsettling. Each of the passengers has their own way of making the reader suspicious at some point in the story.
I will say, there were some plot points that seemed overly exaggerated and unbelievable, to the point of pulling me out of the story. And the ending should have been a little more drawn out. It seemed to end so abruptly.
Overall, a great reading experience and one that was entertaining from start to finish.
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