A review by erinkabez
The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

Thank you to Megan Miranda, Simon & Schuster Canada, and NetGalley for providing me with an ebook copy of The Only Survivors for me to read and review. What a wild story of trauma, loss, strength, and overcoming challenges. The time jumps between now and then to give us just a little bit more information about the tragic accident that they all "survived" was well done, especially how the past timeline worked backwards in time through the aftermath of the accident. There was a large number of characters to keep track of which I found difficult especially since a number of them didn't get a huge amount of detail provided about them/their personalities. It was a very slow burn to start, which I don't usually mind but this one was a bit too slow in my opinion and it took a very long time to get to anything exciting happening. There were quite a few twists and turns, some that I saw coming and some that I didn't. Overall the twists were definitely a success in this book, but I wish that it had been a bit faster paced to start.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings