When two buses carrying high schoolers on a class trip end up swept away in a river, only nine survivors make it out. A decade later, seven are left, and the bonds and secrets they've held are starting to unravel.

I stayed up way too late because I couldn't sleep without knowing what had actually happened and why. No one could be trusted as a reliable narrator, so everyone was suspect, which had me second-guessing everything I thought I'd figured out. I managed to predict a couple plot points, but the final twist was something I never saw coming.

This book moved along at a great pace and had enough turns and surprises to keep me guessing all the way to the end! My only critique is that it felt like it ended very quickly…like the end could have been drawn out just a little more.

I love everything written by Megan! She’s a great writer and I always breeze through her books not wanting to put the book down! This was a fantastic read and I highly recommend it!

This book was how I cleansed my palate between fantasy books. I needed a little dose of thrill. I love the dual timeline that Megan Miranda uses to tell the story, and how the present moves forward while the past works backward giving you little details before revealing what fully happened in the past. I loved the atmospheric, slow burn thriller that this story was. I can't say that I really liked the characters all that much, but I am not sure I was really supposed to. In the end, I found the bad guy to be a little predictable, but there was a twist that I was not expecting. So, I would probably bump this up to a 4.5 star read. Overall, this was a fun read and I will definitely read more from Megan Miranda!
Thank you to Netgalley and Scribner for an ARC of this book for an honest review.

10 years ago a tragedy filled with terrible loss, brought 9 survivors together. 8 have been meeting every year to reunite and keep each other in check. Only 7 remain this year. With a brutal storm impending and the reunion in full swing, will the secrets they’ve kept hidden, keep them from saving one another?

WOW. Just WOW. I managed to finish this in less than 24 hours and boy was it worth it. I’ve been a fan of Megan Miranda since “All the Missing Girls” and will continue to be a fan after absorbing “The Only Survivors”

Miranda does an excellent job of interspersing the 7 days in the present with the 7 hours from then and making it very suspenseful without the predictability. Even when I think I know what is happening/has happened, there’s new pieces of information that show a deeper plot and forethought in the authors mind.

I will say that the big reveal wasn’t unexpected and felt more like a tell and tell than a show and tell. And light spoilers!!!!!!! (The motivations of the antagonist seemed to be the least developed part of this book as they were a bit all over the place and didn’t serve the purpose I think it was meant to).

That being said that ending floored me and I loved the subtle ways it was foreshadowed.

Great read and thank you to Netgalley and Megan Miranda for allowing me to read “The Last Survivors” in exchange for an honest review.

Ooh that twist! I wasn’t sure exactly where this book was going but I loved the outcome of it. Who do you save when you know not everyone will survive? How do guilt and trauma both play out in people as they grow apart but stay connected? I love how this author can leave little bread crumbs throughout the story that all come together in the end.

A group of survivors of a horrific van crash meet up every year on the anniversary of the event. This will be the tenth year, and what they did out there in the dark and rain all those years ago is finally catching up to them.

Told in alternating chapters between then and now, the story has a visceral feeling brought on by Megan Miranda's atmospheric setting of a lumbering shore house, The Shallows, set back from the dunes and the ocean in its seemingly private location. But there are things out of place - a sighting on the beach, a found object, things that show up in the house....

The book climbs like the switchbacks that led to the accident, and we learn more about each person's role in the accident's aftermath, until it all comes to a crescendo.

Thanks to NetGalley and Scribner for this well told tale by Megan Miranda.

The Only Survivors was my first book by Megan Miranda and it won’t be my last! The book had a slower start but I got to the point where I couldn’t put it down! It was full of suspense and twists and turns. My kind of book!

I've been reading Megan Miranda since she began in YA and one of the things that I like most about her books is that 1) she's good at creating a feeling of confusion and suspense and 2) she's always willing to experiment with her narrative format.

In The Only Survivors, she's used these two techniques well. A group who survived a tragic accident in high school gathers every year, more to check on each other than to commemorate the event. This year, things seem even more off than usual, as one of them has died under somewhat mysterious circumstances.

The timeline moves from past to present, with each survivor getting a chapter in which they look back on the day of the tragedy. What happened? What are they hiding? And is someone now after them?

Really enjoyed this one!

This book had a slow start, and I'm glad that I stuck with it. I was confused because there were so many characters to follow. I liked how the story went back and forth from the past to the present, and it showed different perspectives from the characters. I enjoyed how the story was told in pieces that the reader had to put together. It was like trying to solve a puzzle, but some of the pieces were missing.

Overall, I liked the story, but I wasn't surprised by the ending. I think it was predictable, but it was still enjoyable.

Thanks to NetGalley and Scribner for an ARC of this book.

So much action! I don’t know. Part of it was ridiculous and part was a bit easy to call (who is it?!?). But more than anything, this is a solid story of guilt and secrets. In reality, the secrets, even when you get down to the real truth, are understandable. No, you don’t want the world judging you, but I think we all understand. It just gets more and more crazy until the inevitable but satisfying conclusion. Another great one from Megan Miranda. A more involved review to come once this nightmare of a school year is over.

'The Only Survivors' is a captivating exploration of the thin line between healing and punishment, and how shared trauma can bring people together, or push them apart.

Finished ✔️ The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda & really LOVED it!! 🤩🤩
5 ⭐️‘s
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Seven hours in the past, seven days in the present, seven survivors remaining. Who would you save?
This is a beautifully and brilliantly told story
My first by Megan Miranda but won’t be my last
I didn’t see any of the twists or turns coming
It engrossed me from the first page
It’s a book I think any reader would stay up late to find out what happens next
This book had something about it that has me more and more intrigued as I kept reading it.
Yes, I’d recommend
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I really liked this book. It kept me interested until the twisty end! The main character POV along with the flashbacks from other main characters offered a great perspective.

10 years ago, a group of classmates survived a tragedy on a school trip while some of their peers and teachers didn’t make it. The trauma brings the kids together and creates a bond unlike any other. They seem to trust each other with their lives, but for some reason they keep dying…

The primary narrator is Cassidy Bent, who has tried to cut off her past and the group of people she survived with by changing her phone number and deleting any emails from the group. When an unknown number texts her the obituary of one of the survivors, she finally feels the pull to join the other survivors at their yearly get together.

Everyone seems to have something to hide, but none of them can afford to have any secrets. Can they trust that they’ll have each others’ backs? Or is someone finally going to let their survivor’s guilt take them all down…

My rating: 3.5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and Scribner for an ARC for review.

Megan Miranda KNOWS how to write a book that you can’t put down. It took me about 50 pages to really get into this one, but there started to be little nuggets of info revealed that made it more and more enticing to understand the full picture of what happened the night of the school accident. I think at first there just wasn’t enough uniqueness to draw me in completely. And even after a few twists were revealed, it still felt like a long time before there were more satisfying payoffs.

I didn’t really love the narrator Cassidy, she just felt boring to me. Mostly due to her feeling like an outsider, she doesn’t contribute much personality to the group herself, but she observes the flaws and quirks of the others. There’s a LOT of characters and it takes a bit to keep them all straight. I sort of wish there were fewer of them.

I enjoyed most the chapters about the accident. I am fascinated by how people react in emergency situations and they were high schools kids no less! As the events of the night were revealed in pieces (sometimes the timeline was difficult to follow) the more you understand why the group has to rely on each other so much and how much there could be to lose. And while I saw a few of the twists coming, getting to Cassidy’s whole perspective of the night was really, really good.

Overall, I just wonder if Megan could have taken a bit more time with this one and changed a few things to make it stand out and be more memorable. I enjoyed the read, and I will always pick up Megan Miranda’s books!

I really liked this one! The plot was one that was definitely familiar and done before but it was comfortable I guess you could say since I was used to a group of friends in this kind of mystery/thriller plot. The atmosphere in this book was done very well and really made you feel like you were in that moment with the characters, whether it be the past or the present. I thought the characters were very well developed and I did not see that twist coming at the end when everything came full circle! I think this was a slow burn but it was done again very well and really was a good one! Definitely check this new one out if you have some time! Thank you so much Special thanks to NetGalley and Scribner/ S&s / Marysue Rucci Books for this advanced reader ebook copy!

A slow burn thriller that pulls you in slowly and steadily. There’s a circle of people who were never friends but they are bound forever by the fact that they are the “survivors” of a high school travel accident. Their singular status and forced closeness forge a closeness that connects them through time and each year they find time in their schedules for an anniversary week. But as their tenth “anniversary” nears their numbers are shrinking and there also seem to be questions about their shared story. This book is set up in a dual timeline. The now part is Cassidy Bent, one of the survivors POV, as she is trying first to stay away and then to uncover the undercurrents while also trying to stay away from memories that may pull her under. The timeline of the accident is split up in several POVs and lets the reader get a better sense of all the characters than just Cassidy’s point of view ever could. How high do you rate morals if you are facing the deadly reality of a natural disaster ? Is it ok to take an inhumane choice if it improves your chances of survival ? And who is calling the shots now that they have supposedly been safe for ten years ? Whom to trust ? Whom to mistrust ? What has been hidden ? Are they just suffering from survivor’s guilt or is something more sinister at the bottom of this ?

3.5 Stars
Who would you choose?

It was a little slow to start, but once it picked up, I was so invested!
Once a year, the high school survivors of a field trip bus meet up in the Outer Banks of North Carolina to get each other through that anniversary date. This year is very different, though.
Told in the past by each survivor and the present in Cassidy's POV, someone is watching and waiting. The suspense and mystery leading up to the end top notch. The twists that are revealed were such a surprise. I highly recommend this book, get through the first few chapters, and you'll be just as invested as I was.

Definitley an entertaining read. Well written.

Thank you #netgalley and #Scribner, S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books for the eARC.

Survivors of a horrific accident made a pack nine years ago to spend the week of the accident together each year after another took her life on that fateful day. It’s the ten year anniversary and Cassidy has tried to distance herself, she’s cut off all communication and vows not to join them this year. She’s tired of reliving the nightmare and she’s determined to put the past behind her. When she receives a last minute text from a number she doesn’t recognize with a message she can’t ignore, she quickly packs to join the group. Things are completely different this year, nothing seems right from the minute she steps into the ghostly beach house. There are suspicious people, and suspicious noises. When Amaya leaves the others aren’t overly concerned as she’s done this before, but when she doesn’t return Cassidy is beyond worried. As a storm rages and roads are closed we start to hear the stories from that tragic night. All is not what it seems and someone is hiding something … the only problem is someone else knows! Did one of them talk, after all they are the sole survivors!! When you are in danger, who do you save? Thank you to Simon and Schuster and NetGalley for an ARC of this book.