dani17731's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail with no memory of the past forty-eight hours. Now everyone wants answers--most of all, Claire. She remembers Friday night, but after that . . . nothing. And now Kat and Jesse--her best friends--are missing.
This story was full of twists and turns, and I honestly couldn't see how this was going to end. The characters were very interesting and well developed. There was a lot of suspense and unpredictability here, which was great. And that ending? Shocker!
Thank you to NetGalley for the advance copy.
It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail with no memory of the past forty-eight hours. Now everyone wants answers--most of all, Claire. She remembers Friday night, but after that . . . nothing. And now Kat and Jesse--her best friends--are missing.
This story was full of twists and turns, and I honestly couldn't see how this was going to end. The characters were very interesting and well developed. There was a lot of suspense and unpredictability here, which was great. And that ending? Shocker!
Spoiler
Knocking off one star because I don't think a real teenager could successfully hide from everyone in their life for six months.Thank you to NetGalley for the advance copy.
fictionaladventures's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
I wanted a fun mystery/thriller, and that’s not at all what I got. If you read this, go in prepared for it to be way more serious than that. It’s way more of a heavy drama than anything fun like I wanted.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Car accident, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
vanessamariebooks's review against another edition
4.0
Content warnings: child abuse, drug and alcohol use, anxiety, depression, and talk of suicide
isoheel's review against another edition
4.0
La fin du livre a failli faire perdre une étoile à ma note, mais j'ai suffisamment aimé le reste pour lui laisser les 4 étoiles. Ce n'était pas transcendant, ce n'est pas un livre qui restera dans les mémoires, mais j'ai eu ce que je cherchais : un thriller young adult avec un mystère qui m'a tenue en haleine (même si j'avais anticipé le dénouement).
Le seul vrai bémol, comme dit plus haut, c'est sa fin : j'ai trouvé la révélation sur Jesse assez inutile à ce stade de l'histoire, et dérangeante.
Certains personnages se sont révélés avoir un caractère caché qui m'a plus exaspérée qu'autre chose, et une certaine action de Claire est expédiée en 2 pages alors qu'il s'agit tout de même de quelque chose d'important. À ce stade, j'avais juste hâte d'en finir avec ce livre. Je pense réellement que l'histoire aurait été meilleure si elle s'était arrêtée à la révélation du pot aux roses.
Le seul vrai bémol, comme dit plus haut, c'est sa fin : j'ai trouvé la révélation sur Jesse assez inutile à ce stade de l'histoire, et dérangeante.
Certains personnages se sont révélés avoir un caractère caché qui m'a plus exaspérée qu'autre chose, et une certaine action de Claire est expédiée en 2 pages alors qu'il s'agit tout de même de quelque chose d'important. À ce stade, j'avais juste hâte d'en finir avec ce livre. Je pense réellement que l'histoire aurait été meilleure si elle s'était arrêtée à la révélation du pot aux roses.
marinn_rose's review against another edition
4.0
Honestly the premise was really intriguing but I feel that all the build up and suspense didn’t really end with a satisfying conclusion. Overall it was very well written but I just think the ending didn’t do the book justice.
summer_mailee98's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 ⭐️
This was so good!! I loved reading from Claire’s POV. The twists were so crazy and I guessed half of one of them but I didn’t expect any of the other ones. It was insane! I can see why the last twist might turn some people away from the book, but I was so shocked by it and thought it made the book even better. The only reason it’s 4.5 stars for me is because it just didn’t have that 5 star ✨feeling✨
I definitely recommend it if you want to read a mystery/thriller with crazy twists!!
This was so good!! I loved reading from Claire’s POV. The twists were so crazy and I guessed half of one of them but I didn’t expect any of the other ones. It was insane! I can see why the last twist might turn some people away from the book, but I was so shocked by it and thought it made the book even better. The only reason it’s 4.5 stars for me is because it just didn’t have that 5 star ✨feeling✨
I definitely recommend it if you want to read a mystery/thriller with crazy twists!!
autumnrain's review against another edition
2.0
It was a pretty good book up until the last hour and the ending was awful.
archermoony's review against another edition
4.0
This is a YA mystery about 3 best friends. They spend the night at a lake house, with plans to go camping on Saturday. Sunday rolls around, and Claire is the only one found. She has no memory of anything that happened Saturday, or Sunday. Kat and Jesse are missing, and Claire is going to do what she can to figure it out.
This book was written really well. I’m always drawn to the premise of one survivor, and finding the clues out as we go. It hasn’t always been written good, but Kara does an excellent job. I like how the story is broken up into sections, and the way everything comes perfectly together. We are left with no questions and all the strings tie together.
Even though we don’t get a lot from Kat or Jesse throughout the story, the ending gives us the right amount of information to see character growth and change.
I really, really felt bad for Kat. I wish things could have turned out differently for her, and Jesse is just disgusting. Iykyk.
I didn’t really have a solid idea of what could have happened through the story honestly - When we got near the end of the book I was thinking of it going an entirely different way than it did but the ending was so much better than what I thought was going to happen.
The characters are written well. We see a lot of different kind of personalities being portrayed, but they all build and we see good character development with a lot of them.
I recommend this!
This book was written really well. I’m always drawn to the premise of one survivor, and finding the clues out as we go. It hasn’t always been written good, but Kara does an excellent job. I like how the story is broken up into sections, and the way everything comes perfectly together. We are left with no questions and all the strings tie together.
Even though we don’t get a lot from Kat or Jesse throughout the story, the ending gives us the right amount of information to see character growth and change.
I really, really felt bad for Kat. I wish things could have turned out differently for her, and Jesse is just disgusting. Iykyk.
I didn’t really have a solid idea of what could have happened through the story honestly - When we got near the end of the book I was thinking of it going an entirely different way than it did but the ending was so much better than what I thought was going to happen.
The characters are written well. We see a lot of different kind of personalities being portrayed, but they all build and we see good character development with a lot of them.
I recommend this!
ayanahmeddd's review against another edition
4.0
WOAH!!! I could not put this book down. It was ultimately everything I was looking for in a mystery/thriller novel. 10000000% recommend with its inexplicable ending and plot twists :)) btw, it automatically lost a star for the GROSS ending like what possessed the author to add that…very unnecessary.
agiali's review against another edition
3.0
☾ 279/ 100
I needed a quick mystery/ thriller to get me out of the reading rut I'm in and this book really delivered on that element. I read my Kindle to winddown before bed and every night I was so excited to pick this up! initially, I was going to rate this four stars, but some elements of the ending kind of left a sour taste on my tongue.
That Weekend is about our main character, Claire who decides to skip prom and spend the weekend sneaking away with her best friends Kat and Jesse (who are also dating), to Kat's grandma's lake house. No one knows they're going to be spending the next few days there and all is well until Claire wakes up being saved in the woods. Her friends are nowhere to be seen, she's covered in blood, her head hurts, and she has no memory of the day prior. Claire believes it's Saturday, but it's actually Sunday and over the course of this novel she's trying to get back the memories of late Friday and the entirety of Saturday that she lost. Where did her friends go? Why was she alone? How did she get on that mountain?
This was so quick and fast-paced! The first half has a past and present timeline whilst the second half has a dual POV. I was kept guessing throughout the first half, but the second half basically tells you what happened and you're just reading it to see how exactly this will play out.
Whilst I loved most of this book, as previously said the ending lowered my rating. There's a dynamic between Kat and Jesse that gets revealed at the end and I didn't find it necessary. Kara Thomas could have picked ANYTHING else and I wouldn't have been like "Oh..." There's a scene between them that I also felt didn't really fit Jesse's character, but perhaps my idea of him was warped in the beginning since we see him through Claire's POV since she is in love with him.
I needed a quick mystery/ thriller to get me out of the reading rut I'm in and this book really delivered on that element. I read my Kindle to winddown before bed and every night I was so excited to pick this up! initially, I was going to rate this four stars, but some elements of the ending kind of left a sour taste on my tongue.
That Weekend is about our main character, Claire who decides to skip prom and spend the weekend sneaking away with her best friends Kat and Jesse (who are also dating), to Kat's grandma's lake house. No one knows they're going to be spending the next few days there and all is well until Claire wakes up being saved in the woods. Her friends are nowhere to be seen, she's covered in blood, her head hurts, and she has no memory of the day prior. Claire believes it's Saturday, but it's actually Sunday and over the course of this novel she's trying to get back the memories of late Friday and the entirety of Saturday that she lost. Where did her friends go? Why was she alone? How did she get on that mountain?
This was so quick and fast-paced! The first half has a past and present timeline whilst the second half has a dual POV. I was kept guessing throughout the first half, but the second half basically tells you what happened and you're just reading it to see how exactly this will play out.
Whilst I loved most of this book, as previously said the ending lowered my rating. There's a dynamic between Kat and Jesse that gets revealed at the end and I didn't find it necessary. Kara Thomas could have picked ANYTHING else and I wouldn't have been like "Oh..." There's a scene between them that I also felt didn't really fit Jesse's character, but perhaps my idea of him was warped in the beginning since we see him through Claire's POV since she is in love with him.