Ten years ago, a girl was killed in a car accident. There were lots of questions about it, but nothing ever resolved. Around the same time, a young man also went missing but his disappearance was overshadowed by the accident. Now in present day, secrets will come out.

This one was just ok for me. I was lacking the suspense and thrill I wanted. I just didn’t care a bunch about the characters and didn’t really feel like there was a good twist at the end.

Okay - while this was overall an enjoyable read (I would give it 2.5 stars and rounded up), it was frustratingly repetitive and long-winded at times. It took me quite a while to get into it, and it took even longer to actually finish. There were some characters I could not have cared less about, and a couple who held my interest. I feel like there was a lot of build up with each chapter, like there was this demand to be shocking, but it often fell short. The end was well written. This was less of a thriller than I expected, but that's fine. I will be looking for more from this author as she hopefully develops her craft.

Many thanks to Netgalley and to Poisoned Pen Press for the opportunity to read this!

Twenty-Seven Minutes is set in a small tight-knit town of West Wilmer. This small town is full of secrets and mystery about one night that ended in tragedy.
This story is told in two different timelines, and pretty fast paced. The beginning plot is fast paced and the main characters are well thought out. As the story unfolds, the pace starts to slow down quite a bit. There are quite a few characters that are “unlikeable”, which may make it hard to read for some.

This book started off great. The prologue was a perfect hook into the story. However, after that things kind of went downhill. It just circled around and around what happened that night. It was pretty obvious that some of the characters were mentally unstable and/or had substance abuse problems... so then every POV is unreliable. There were so many points when I almost DNF'd this book, but I kept on going until the end. It was unexpected, but also disappointing. Really?

It is a dark book, filled with grief about of death. The characters are so unlikeable. They are obsessed with the truth, but no one is okay in this book. The dialogue was clunky and hard to read (and enjoy). Overall, some may enjoy this, but the writing style and slow pace was not for me.

Wow. I really liked this thriller with all the plot twists. I thought I had it figured out with 10% read, but the next chapter had me guessing again. We are first introduced to Pheobe, dying in the middle of the road. The rest of the book is figuring out what really happened that night and why there was a delay of 27 life saving minutes. This was a multiple POV narration, which I love, but also creates a lot of suspense. When you get to the end, it was like...OH OKKKKKK. I do think that it wasn't as much a fast paced thriller as it was a slow burn. There were parts in the chapters that I was like, why are we here, but at the end, it brought it all together. Ashley Tate is a phenomenal writer and I feel that this one was well-written and developed the characters, as unlikable as they were, really well to the point that you were dying to get to the next chapter to see what else was going to be unraveling, Rated a solid 4 Stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press and Ashley Tate for the eARC of Twenty-Seven Minutes in exchange for an honest review. Publication date for Twenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley Tate is 30 January 2024.

I was hooked right away and enjoyed reading this book! I felt like some parts were a bit repetitive. I was dying to get to the ending to find out what actually happened the night in question. Would recommend this one. Thank you for the ARC!

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC, I was sucked in immediately for the first few chapters but I soon became a bit distracted from the storyline after all characters were introduced. A great premise, a little predictable but a good debut novel!

Alright. When it comes to the thriller genre, i’m used to very fast-paced, edge of your seat, with plot twists thrown in here and there but in the best way possible, this book is the complete opposite!

Twenty-Seven Minutes is a very character driven story. The main plot is based on a decade old mysterious accident, but it centers itself around five very interesting, but *very* different characters that are somehow all connected to the roots of this book. I’ll be honest, after the intense first chapter, not a lot happens until around 80% into the book, which might sound like a bad thing but trust me! Told in four points of view, you spend A LOT of time with these characters and a lot of time inside their heads, which don’t get me wrong, I did find to drag on a bit at times, but the end result is SO worth it. I actually ended up reading THAT moment several times just to make sure I could believe my eyes…🤯

Even through the slow, slow burn of it all, I ended up loving everything about this one! It’s chilling, intriguing, and very well-written. All the pieces end up tying their selves together with a pretty, but disturbing bow and I couldn’t recommend it more.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance reader copy of this book. While I liked the fast pace of this novel, the characters, and their many points of view, made it a little confusing. The end of the book did pull it all together and I loved the twists and turns. 3 stars

I really enjoyed reading this book albeit it was quite slow...even for my tastes which I hardly ever describe a book that way. Nonetheless it had a great ending that shocked me so it was well worth it!

Thanks to #netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this ARC book!

2.5 stars rounded up. This book would be great for people interested in rooting against unlikeable characters while they do unlikeable things all book. The switching POVs did add to it and the flashbacks were interesting, but it also was mostly internal dialogue and conversations and almost no action. I personally had a really hard time caring at all about anything that happened to any of them because of how awful they all were and how long it took for anything to happen while the author was trying to build up suspense. Also, both of the sibling dynamics in this felt emotionally incestuous and that made for a really uncomfortable read.

Many thanks to Ashley Tate, Poisoned Press, and Netgalley for the early ARC of Twenty-Seven Minutes!

I must say, this book had a lot of potential, but it seemed to squander it for most of the book. The plot was intriguing, but the pacing was off almost the entire time. Nothing happened until the end of the book, and while it was good, it would’ve benefited from a little bit more sprinkled throughout.

I do love flashbacks so that was a plus! This was a decent thriller and definitely something that had a lot of potential.

Phoebe died in a car crash 10 years ago with her brother Grant at the wheel and friend Becca in the back seat. 10 years later the families are just as dysfunctional as ever and a memorial ceremony is going to be held. Not everyone believes it was an accident and secrets and lies are revealed.
This was a very good story that I finished quickly. I hope to read more by this author. Thanks NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for this ARC that will be published January 30, 2024!

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Twenty-Seven Minutes is a gripping suspense novel that revolves around the death of a young girl, Phoebe. Her brother, Grant, and his friend, Becca, have been hiding secrets for ten years. Complicating the mystery is June, whose brother, Wyatt, disappeared on the same night as Phoebe. As the anniversary of the tragedy approaches, someone who knows the truth about what truly happened shows up threatening to expose everything.

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In this book, we follow multiple POVs and they are all unreliable narrators, as well as some of them are delusional and probably downright sociopaths. In the beginning, we witness Phoebe's death, then we alternate from the present to the past leading up to the accident that took Phoebe's life.

The first few chapters piqued my interest, and while I found the middle a bit slower, as were getting to really know our characters and what they could be hiding, finding out what happened to Phoebe that night on the bridge kept me going.

The twist at the end was absolutely surprising, and while I did think something weird was going on I definitely didn't think that was it.

I would read more by this author in the future.

Young woman dies in a car accident. It took her brother, who was driving the car, 27 minutes to call for help. The majority of the novel is filled with character dialogue. Boring. three stars because, at the end, there is a clever twist.

I was really close to DNFing, but I pushed on. I liked the last 20% the best- there was some tension there because I knew we were FINALLY going to know what was really going on here. The rest was pretty repetitive, and I just wanted them to get to it already. This book just didn't do it for me. The fact that this was 10 years later was also a problem for me because it just seemed way too long. Thanks for giving me a chance to read this!

Amazing book , you can’t put it down , the plot was developed very amazing you will never guest!!! I recommend this book 👏🏻

This book just wasn't for me, but I'm not sure that was the fault of the book. The writing is lovely, but a bit slow for my tastes in a thriller.

I found it very difficult to stay invested in this book. Though the mystery of what happened in the car crash intrigued me enough to keep reading, I felt very little sympathy or connection with any of the characters. Additionally, it felt like there was a big disconnect between the 4 main characters’ chapters. The way, let’s say Becca, talked and interacted with the world in chapters from her perspective was completely different from how her dialog and behavior was described when the 3rd person limited narrator was focus on a different character. And while I can appreciate an unreliable narrator, having all 4 main characters be liars, or delusional, or not even real left me feeling like I’d wasted my time when I finally finished this book. If anyone is curious about what happened in those 27 minutes, I’d recommend skipping to the last chapter.