Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'
Something Terrible Happened Last Night by Sam Blake
2 reviews
styxx's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Vomit, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Grief
Minor: Death of parent
Knife crimereads_eats_explores's review
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Sam Blake is an auto-buy author for me; her murder mystery and crime thrillers are some of the best on the market.
It's Katie’s 17th birthday, and with her parents away, she has a ‘free gaff’, and her house becomes party central. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, obviously, these teenagers have plenty of secrets, and there's plenty of double crossing going on, but no one would envisage the party becoming a crime scene.
After a huge fight breaks out, most of the kids scaper hastily, but Frankie, being the almost irritatingly good girl she is, returns to help with the clearing up along with new friend Jess and her cousin Sorcha. They soon find the body, Katie’s long-term boyfriend Josh, behind a sofa in the kitchen - he's been quite literally stabbed in the back, presumably by someone he and they all knew.
The local Gardai soon leap to the obvious conclusion when they learn that Rob Doyle, a small-time drug dealer with a stabbing conviction on his youthful record, was at the party. But horrified by the chance of a wrongful conviction and the real killer let go free, wannabe future lawyer Jess suggests that these best pals get on the amateur sleuthing and crack the case.
This being the digital age of the 2020s, much of this involves trawling the school’s anonymous “confessions” website, Rave-fess, and piecing together video and pictorial footage from the party where getting a good selfie or reel was a top priority, plus they're racing against time to capture those time-sensitive stories shared in real time via Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and whatever else the youth are using these days.
This foray into Young Adult fiction doesn't disappoint. Think an Irish ‘Nancy Drew’ style read packed with some very relatable teens, loads of twisty page-turning suspense, and betrayal galore, all played out under the omnipresent and unforgiving glare of social media. This is a book easy to devour in one sitting, and I certainly want to read more books featuring these budding supersleuths! 4⭐
Thank you to the publisher @gillbooks for both a proof copy and an advance copy. As always, this is an honest review.
It's Katie’s 17th birthday, and with her parents away, she has a ‘free gaff’, and her house becomes party central. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, obviously, these teenagers have plenty of secrets, and there's plenty of double crossing going on, but no one would envisage the party becoming a crime scene.
After a huge fight breaks out, most of the kids scaper hastily, but Frankie, being the almost irritatingly good girl she is, returns to help with the clearing up along with new friend Jess and her cousin Sorcha. They soon find the body, Katie’s long-term boyfriend Josh, behind a sofa in the kitchen - he's been quite literally stabbed in the back, presumably by someone he and they all knew.
The local Gardai soon leap to the obvious conclusion when they learn that Rob Doyle, a small-time drug dealer with a stabbing conviction on his youthful record, was at the party. But horrified by the chance of a wrongful conviction and the real killer let go free, wannabe future lawyer Jess suggests that these best pals get on the amateur sleuthing and crack the case.
This being the digital age of the 2020s, much of this involves trawling the school’s anonymous “confessions” website, Rave-fess, and piecing together video and pictorial footage from the party where getting a good selfie or reel was a top priority, plus they're racing against time to capture those time-sensitive stories shared in real time via Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and whatever else the youth are using these days.
This foray into Young Adult fiction doesn't disappoint. Think an Irish ‘Nancy Drew’ style read packed with some very relatable teens, loads of twisty page-turning suspense, and betrayal galore, all played out under the omnipresent and unforgiving glare of social media. This is a book easy to devour in one sitting, and I certainly want to read more books featuring these budding supersleuths! 4⭐
Thank you to the publisher @gillbooks for both a proof copy and an advance copy. As always, this is an honest review.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Cancer, Classism, Gaslighting, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Outing, Biphobia, Blood, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Murder, and Vomit
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