The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Five Total Strangers
AUTHOR: Natalie D. Richards
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire @sourcebooksfire
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: October 6, 2020
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This book came up quite a few times in discussions with people as compared to No Exit, which I loved.
💜 What I liked:
- The story definitely moved at a fast pace. There were quite a few nail biting sections as well.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The ending was pretty apparent. I would have liked more misdirects (although there were some, just not enough to be effective, in my opinion). These characters were whiny and illogical. I felt like there should be a strong, smart one to emerge, but sadly there wasn’t.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Mira, Josh, Kayla, Harper, and Brecken are stuck in a car trying to get home.
🚦 The Ending:
- There was no satisfying wrapup here. As I said above, I really wanted there to be a main character that emerged strong that I could root for, and to me, Mira did not embody that.
💭 Consider if you like:
- No Exit but like Young Adult or need a quick read.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary:
A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster.
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.