The true crime genre is heavily trending now.  With this novels addition of a podcast mixed with the narrative, readers will dive into I Killed Zoe Spanos.  Then you add an unreliable narrator that can’t remember things and admits to killing someone in the opening chapters, you have a mystery where readers will dive in trying to solve the crime.  Anna, the party girl, prone to blackouts, decides it’s time to distance herself from that life.  She takes a nanny job in the Hampton’s where she quickly learns she is replacing her doppelgänger, Zoe Spanos.  Zoe has been missing since New Year’s, and when her body has been found, it is Anna who believes she killed her.  Lots of twists and turns will lead the reader guessing until the end.

So. Freaking. Good. 

Twisty and psychological with alternate timelines and a podcast made for a *perfect* book!!

Unfortunately, I did not get on with the concept of this book but would recommend it to teens and those interested in murder-mystery.

I have to be honest and say that I found “I Killed Zoe Spanos,” a somewhat frustrating read. I liked the clever concept of updating Rebecca du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, but there were too many characters with similar voices, which made it difficult at times for me to keep track of them. The story itself was enjoyable until the ending which wound up being a disorganized mess. I’m still giving this 3 stars because there were moments of enjoyment and I think it may find a receptive audience with older teens. While this wasn’t a perfect read for me, I will definitely be looking for future works by Kit Frick.

I loved this book! It is an amazing YA thriller set in NY. Anna, the main character, leaves her life behind to take a nannying job for the summer. New beginnings, right? Or, maybe not?! This book had me addicted and wanting to know how it would all turn out. I couldn't stop reading it and was very please with how it ended. This is a must read if you are a thriller junky like me :) I got the pleasure of reading this book, thanks to Net Galley, prior to the release date, but I did preorder a copy because I loved it that much!!

Anna and Martina are tied together by Zoe Spanos. She went missing on New Year's Eve, and nobody knows what happened to her. Anna looks just like her and seems to be stepping into her life, and Martina is obsessed with finding the truth behind Zoe's disappearance. Did Zoe simply run away, or was Zoe the victim of something more sinister?

I'll definitely purchase and recommend this book--it's a twisty thriller, but not quite as dark or as graphic as some recent thrillers aimed at a YA audience, so it will appeal to a different audience than usual. I enjoyed the format--half is Anna's, from a first person perspective, and the other half is Martina's, with snippets from the media and a third-person narrative about her life--though I found myself more interested in Martina's ("Now") perspective much more than Anna's ("Then") perspective for most of the book. Martina was an insider, and I found myself wanting to know more about Zoe through Martina's perspective rather than continuing to follow Anna's perspective. The one thing that I didn't love about the book was that the relationships between characters seemed a bit shallow because most of the story was told from Anna's perspective, and she was in a completely new place surrounded by completely new people. No insta-love or insta-friendship here. Most of Anna's perspective is introspective, for good reason, so I never got a great read on other characters that seemed very interesting! In particular, I wish we got more of Martina's interactions with Aster, Martina's family, and Zoe's family! However, it was definitely an enjoyable read, and it will absolutely find an audience.

**I received a copy of IKZS from the publisher.**

I just want to start by saying <I>I Killed Zoe Spanos</I> was so good. 

Anna, a recent high school graduate, takes a job out in the Hamptons as a nanny for the summer. She soon discovers that she looks an awful lot like Zoe Spanos, a girl who had gone missing after New Year's. She also begins having flashbacks of people, places, and events that she shouldn't know. 

Anna soon realizes that she killed Zoe Spanos....or did she?

Frick weaves an incredible tale of mystery, suspense, and the danger of secrets. This story moved quickly and the alternating perspectives (past, present, and pod-cast transcripts) help add to the pacing. This story kept me guessing until the very end and still Frick managed to surprise me right at the last moment. I was never totally sure what happened up until the very end...and still Frick managed to come out of nowhere with a twist. 

I can't wait to recommend this book to everyone.

I was immediately intrigued by this book. The premise that a girl confessed to a murder that she didn’t believe she committed, and another girl set out to find the truth already had me hooked. I was ready to discover the truth.

Anna is such a troubled teen looking to right her past wrongs. She’s trying to grow up by settling her party side. But by taking steps to forget her past, memories start flooding her mind and now she has to decipher between truth and fiction.

I felt physically irritated while reading this. And I think for this type of book to illicit that type of reaction is good. I was mainly irritated because I am an impatient person and I wanted it revealed what happened. It didn’t settle right with me why Anna would confess to something she didn’t do. Why would she put herself in that position? I felt like while reading this I needed a suspect board with string attached to each picture and showing each connection and theory, Carrie Mathison off her psych meds “Homeland” style.

The writing and setup of this book was really unique. Between alternating points of view of past and present and changing between Anna’s first person and Martina’s third person narrative; this presented an interesting way to tell a story. The addition of the podcast really helped bridge the past with the present. Despite these tools used to connect moments in time, the reader, in this case, was left confused and without the story making sense. At times, between past and present, it felt like I was reading two different stories. 

There will be so many paths and theorized plots your mind will go through while you read this story. And really I didn’t know how this story was going to end until the very last page. It was a good thriller, but there were times where I was uninterested in the story. There were parts of the story that were hard to believe and for me it took a lot of away from the overall story. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for this eARC!

This was a chilling delight, simply masterful! The plotting, pacing, characters, and twists were riveting and I wish I could read this for the first time again and again. I have loved every Kit Frit book but this one is my new favorite. Well done!

Thank you to Simon and Schuster for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for a fair review.

When the premise said for fans of Sadie I knew I had to read this one. I thoroughly enjoyed that book! YA Mystery/Thrillers are my guilty pleasure and they are so easy to get caught up in. I Killed Zoe Spanos was no exception!

Anna is tired of the party/drinking life. She is ready to get away from it all which lands her in the small Hamptons village of Herron Mills. There isn't much we know about her besides that and her dad hasn't been in her life for a long time. Her new job as a nanny takes up a lot of her time. It would also probably be quite tiring, haha.

I don't think I really ever felt a connection towards her, or any of the other characters, because there wasn't much to go off of. I wasn't upset by this because books like this are always about the mystery/thrill!

The unique thing about this book is the layout. There are podcasts, interviews with the police, and chapters from before the the disappearance of Zoe and after all from Anna's perspective. I love when books do this! It adds so much and gives you more than one way to look at all the evidence. Even with it all, I still didn't guess who the real culprit was. I kept going back and forth and I was so surprised!

Overall, I enjoyed this one a lot! I can see why they would compare it with Sadie. It is thrilling and will have you not wanting to put it down until you know what really happened!