A review by agiali
That Weekend by Kara Thomas
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.