Series: Whitewater #1
on 15th May 2022
Format: eARC
Source: Author
Pages: 347
Amazon UK
Two teenage girls on the run with fake IDs and a beater car…what could go wrong?
Emmy has always been impulsive. She is no longer a minor and has aged out of foster care. When her best friend, Amber, is the target of a perverted uncle who lives in the basement of her group home, they plan her escape.
They head for Canada, where Amber will be safe and the foster care system can no longer control their lives. They come across a whitewater rafting brochure and decide to take a detour for one last adventure before leaving the country. They have no idea it will be a decision that will forever change their fates.
The rafting town is so far in the middle of nowhere that Emmy’s car radio catches nothing but static. They consider turning around until a truck pulls up, loaded with hot whitewater rafting guides and rubber rafts--just the fun they were looking for. Ignoring every instinct, they turn off the pavement and follow the truck down an isolated dirt road. They end up in Lodell, the town where a girl went missing the previous summer…and she will not be the last.
The blurb screamed at me to be read, two runaways and a murderous town, I mean what more could you want.
Unfortunately, I felt some of the execution fell a bit flat with the over descriptive aspects and at times it felt a bit too slow for me. However, I was intrigued at what might happen next. I wanted to know if Emmy would be ok and would we ever find out the meaning of the shoe tree. I could picture that tree ever so clearly in my mind and that gave me shivers!
I didn’t guess who was behind everything and that final sting in the tale was rather sad. Although, this is the first in a series so in the next book I hope for a happy reunion of sorts.
From the start I was feeling protective over Emmy and Amber and when you had the chapters from the killer, it made me so scared for them! Man those chapters were chilling. To get inside of that coldness, well hats off to the author for that. I needed to scrub myself clean after reading those bits. Cold, chilling and just plain terrifying.
Until the next adventure xxx
Thank you to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the tour invite and to the author for a copy of their book in return for my honest and unbiased review.
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