Julie SotoRomance · Contemporary Romance
The Thrashers
Synopsis
At New Helvetia High, the Thrashers are the group everyone wants to join: Zack Thrasher, Julian, Lucy and Paige. They are wealthy, polished and used to being watched. Jodi Dillon is the odd one out. She has a place among them only because Zack has been her best friend since childhood.
She has never felt that the place is really hers. Then Emily Mills, a girl who badly wanted to be a Thrasher herself, is found dead on prom night, and the whispers at school turn toward the group.
Emily's journal surfaces and detectives begin asking questions. Jodi has to decide whether to shield her friends or look after herself, and the two choices pull in opposite directions.
Unsettling messages arrive and strange things start happening around the group. Jodi's doubts about her friends grow alongside the sense that Emily is not done with them. This is a young adult thriller built on school cliques, guilt and loyalty, with an uneasy, haunted atmosphere.
How it reads
- 4.75 stars - rounded up!!! A thriller YA from one of my fave authors? I kneeeeew I’d love this, I just didn’t know how much! Following the suicide of a classmate, Jodi and her friends are closely watched as they are assumed to be the reason for her untimely death. While trying to find out the truth, weird things start happening to the different members of The Trashers, the worst things happening when they were all together. The Thrashers was thrilling, suspenseful and kept me to the edge of my seat. I genuinely felt like I couldn’t tell where the book was going and where it did go was so great. Even though this book is told from a single POV (Jodi’s), I really felt like each other the characters were really fleshed out. Sometimes I feel like in an ensemble cast, there is always 1 or 2 characters I forget about or they merge together, but everyone in this definitely deserved attention. Each character was frustrating and clearly holding secrets, and once they were revealed, the story really rounds out. I also loved the paranormal element that was included. It was just spooky enough that you’d want to look over your shoulder, but not too much that it takes away from the overall mystery you’re unraveling. Also, the romance, I’m here for it. That’s all. This book does have a pretty solid ending, but I really hope it gets picked up as a series because it really has potential to grow! Truly such a fun read and I’m so happy I had the opportunity to devour this. Thank you so much to Netgalley, Julie Soto and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
- <blockquote>Jodi deserved the world, but her father and friends gave her the bare minimum. 💔 Also, the sheer chaos and horror happening at this high school? Absolutely wild. Sheesh.</blockquote><div><br></div>