Four Found Dead
Ratings4
Average rating3.3
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Ratings4
Average rating3.3
The last show has ended, but the nightmare is just beginning. Tonight, Riverview Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, a shift that quickly takes a dark turn. First a stranger arrives with a chilling accusation. Then the power goes out and their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe, where the crew's phones are locked each shift. The crew's tension turns to terror when Jo discovers the dead body of one of her co-workers. Now their only chance to escape the murderer in their midst is through the dark, shuttered mall. With its boarded-up exits and disabled fire alarms, the complex is filled with hiding places for both pursuer and pursued. In order to survive this night, Jo and her friends must trust one another, navigate the sprawling ruins of the mall, and outwit a killer before he kills them all.
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”Maybe we all have to make peace with that night, with the fact we're here and they're gone.”
I'm not usually a fan of young adult thrillers/slashers but this book surprised me and I found it difficult to put it down once I picked it up.
I would love to see this in movie form. The suspense and mystery were fantastically written and I was left trying to piece together what was going to happen next.
Jo was such a strong protagonist. She had been through a horrific trauma earlier in her life but she still managed to remain level-headed and act courageously in this time of crisis. I also admired her passion for becoming a doctor because of everything she's been through, it was a little detail that I appreciated being included.
I'm intrigued to read more from this author. This was great!
Thank you to NetGallery and SOURCEBOOKS Fire for providing me this arc!
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
what a completely tone deaf book for the society this came out in.
this is a “night at the museum” (but in a mall) meets a glorified active shooter situation.
i really hated:
-the fact that clayton's character was so underdeveloped. yes, i know he's the psycho who did all this. but the FACT that we didn't know until the very last chapter WHY he snapped, it made it all hard to not think there was a something much bigger in play only to be dissapointed.
-the fact that hudson's character was so red-herring-ish. seriously. ALL book i kept wondering when hudson was gonna turn on jo and the others. there were so many examples of him being shading but closing the door from the theatre, conspiring against summer, the weirdly revealed seizure disorder are just a few.
-the fact that it was not every poorly written. i've heard of great premise but terrible execution but this the complete opposite. this is terrible premise with the best execution it could have possibly had. i was genuinely anxious while reading and wanted to know what happened next. i think the chapters were very well spaced and paced out and each little insert between chapters came together so nicely at the end.
it's a 2.5 for me, luv.
