This was a solid middle-line murder mystery book. Was it a bit predictable? Yes, but that's fine with me. Was it the best book I've ever read? No, but if I were the target age, I probably would have enjoyed the book more. Trigger warnings for rape/sexual abuse, suicide and drug abuse.

This was a decent thriller with a good mystery. I didn't really get into the story till about the 50% mark, but I kept reading because I wanted to know what happened next. There's some LGBT representation, but I didn't feel a connection to any of the characters.

I have tried so hard to read this book. It sounded so good and the cover it is just the best I have seen in a long while. I love a good story set in a high school situation and not the lovey dovey kind and this one with with a death a river sounded like my cup of tea but I think this tea bag has steeped too long. I get all the characters confused I''m up in the air of who is dead? it just does not keep my attention and I have no compassion for anyone in this book..

Twisty and suspenseful little YA murder mystery. The “group of high school kids involved in a murder” trope is full on here, but we keep reading these books for a reason! This one does the theme well, managing to work in important issues and social commentary. While the ending was predictable and the villain pretty easy to identify, this was still a nice read. I found myself having difficulties putting it down, wanting to know how things unraveled.

I did have two issues with the book. One, the characters weren’t very likable. I understand that part of the story is that girls can be multifaceted and don’t have to fit any one notion. But I really didn’t like any of them as characters, and it was very hard to engage with them or connect to them because of it. The second issue I had was with the story pacing. There would be times when the story would just cut off and we’d pick back up with the character in a completely different setting, not knowing how we got there. The end does help this to make sense, but it’s a weird writing style choice and I didn’t think it worked. It was too jarring and impacted the overall flow.

Overall, I’d say this was a solid 3 star read.