I received a free ebook ARC from Sourcebooks Fire via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Lily needs a ride home and her mom arranged a ride with an old middle school friend, Natasha. Lily’s 8th grade friendships ended horribly after the authorities got called to a big party. Now Lily is stuck in a car with people she doesn’t get along with AND there are forest fires that aren’t helping with their route home.

I wasn’t sure where this was going to go and the middle got a tad slow, but the end was very exciting and had me flipping pages quickly to the end. Part friendship story, part thriller - I’m glad I picked this up. A good YA read for those on the cusp of adulthood and overcoming issues from growing up.

This book was AMAZING. It was so interesting and suspenseful, I could not put it down! I really enjoyed the ending, but the whole book was good, and I would definitely read it again.

Lily needs a ride-a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It's getting tense in the car, and it's not just about the past. There's smoke in the air, and with the wildfires nearby, staying on the road is becoming riskier by the hour. When Natasha and Elke decide to take a detour, Lily hopes it'll get them out of danger. She has no idea, though, what her former friends have planned for her.

But as night comes, the plans change again when it becomes all too clear that leaving the main road was a mistake. Now the three of them are trapped in the woods under a burning sky, with no easy way out. To survive, Lily must depend on Elke and Natasha-but after all that's happened, can she trust them with her life?


I think this book had a lot of potential! I enjoyed the writing style and found that it was easy to follow along with- the overall plot was enjoyable but a little bit slow for me personally. I think people of a younger age will really enjoy this as the survival elements throughout the book were what kept me interested. I really enjoyed the tension and drama throughout as well and it made me want to continue reading to find out how it gets resolved. I wished the characters had a bit more depth to them as I found it hard to connect with any of them and stay invested! And I wished the tension and suspense wasn’t so quickly resolved.

I think that for a YA suspense it was a good book- and the target audience will really enjoy this! I just don’t think it was 100% for me and that’s okay!

Thank you for letting me read this ARC!

10 Hours to go is a YA thriller about three ex friends and a ride that goes terribly wrong. When wildfires close down her train route, Lily gets a ride from her ex best friend and her other ex friend. They have a bad past because four years ago, Lily snitched on her two friends for a party and one of them got expelled. The two friends want revenge for what she did. When things go terribly wrong and they run out of gas and are faced with a wild fire, they have to get over their past together and rely on each other to survive.

I want to start out by saying that this book is a 4 star YA thriller. It was definitely YA so I do not thing people who don't like YA will like this book. There is a lot of drama and bad decisions made but I think that would be realistic for teenagers in the situation. If you like YA, I would recommend this book but I don't think it is for everyone.

I liked how fast paced this book was. I read it in only 2 days because I could not put it down. The characters were all complex and developed well throughout the story. There were a lot of bad choices made throughout but I feel like teenagers would make bad decisions in a life threatening situation (even most adults would). This story also examined friendships and it seemed realistic to me.

I had a fun time reading this book. A lot of YA books help me get out of slumps because you don't have to think a lot and the pacing is fast. This story was great for that. If you don't like YA, this story is not for you. However, if you do, I would recommend it!

Thanks so much to netgalley and Sourcebooks for the arc of this book in exchange for an honest review!

I didn't realize the main characters were so young (16) and were recounting a small thing that happened when they were 12. Because of their age they were really immature (for me). Friendships are hard and everyone is going through something, and those are great things to learn but probably better suited for a younger audience.

Based on the synopsis I just thought this was going to be a different type of book.

***** I have received and read an advanced reader copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for giving my honest feedback. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.*****

Great premise, but unfortunately it just didn't follow through.

Having barely escaped a wildfire a few years ago, the characters just didn't seem to have the same sense of urgency that I felt for myself.

The characters just seemed too childish, especially given the situation, and I couldn't connect with any of them.

The premise of this book was really intriguing and I loved that it is set in Oregon. I did feel like the pacing was slow at times and I sort of had to push myself to keep reading. Overall, it had a good resolution and I thought the intensity was good near the climax.

Heart pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Definitely one of the best books this year.

Lily is catching a ride home with her ex-best friend, Natasha. Lily is surprised to learn that Natasha is also giving Elke a ride home. Lily and Elke had a big falling out years ago and haven’t spoke since.

Things are tense in the car and tensions are rising with the forest fires in their path. When Natasha and Elke decide to detour to get around the fire, they end up going straight into danger instead of around it.

As night comes, plans change again, and now the three of them are trapped in the woods under the burning sky. In order to get out they will be forced to work together.

This book was a lot of fun despite being extremely farfetched. This was one of those books that you just have to sort of suspend all sense of belief and just roll with it. I don’t live far from the area that this book takes place, so I think that is why it was even more far-fetched. Yes, we have forest fires, but not really like what was depicted in the book, but it sure created some amazing drama, and I ate it up. I really enjoyed all the tension in the beginning of the book. I will say that the tension was resolved really quickly though, I think that I wanted it to last longer to create more tension throughout the book. It just seemed that the majority of the book was a drama not necessarily a suspense or thriller like I was expecting. I still enjoyed this read overall, and had fun with it, it just wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. The writing was well done and on point and the author did a great job of being descriptive. I felt that I could easily picture the scenes in my head.

Thank you so much to Sourcebooks Fire @sourcebooksfire and Netgalley @netgalley for this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire for gifting me an advanced copy. Below is my honest review.

This YA suspense is an intense look into the flames of friendships and the sparks of old grudges. As these three girls start their ten hour journey home, old issues between them come cropping back up, but what starts as a potential prank is quickly swapped for a situation much more dangerous when local wildfires threaten not only their path home, but their very ability to make to through the night.

While I enjoyed the writing and think the author did a great job pushing the girls through the dangers of the night, I didn't love this one. It felt like there was a lot of hemming and hawing about past grudges, but then when it came down to it, the reveal was just meh. And while the fires definitely added a lot of tension and some great situational drama, but there was some wasted potential with the dropping of the "other people are dangerous" storyline. We got this whole situation with the scary guy and the disappearing people, but then it just got dropped completely.

All in all, if you enjoy some good character tension and environmental suspense with a YA spin, then you'll really enjoy this one. I think the author is great and will definitely try their next novel to see their growth.

This was a unique idea - being trapped in a car for ten hours with your ex-best friend only for it to get worse in ways you could never imagine! I love stories about friendship breakups because I feel like they aren't as commonly spoken about despite being incredibly relatable. Unfortunately, the characters fell flat and the story dragged on - the way the characters were written didn't sound like it was coming from college-aged girls and some parts of the plot kept going and going...I think the story would have been much more exciting and had better pacing if some events were tightening up and the book was about 40 pages shorter. I think I'm just not the target audience, but I think my students will love this one! Thanks for the ARC!

Imagine being trapped in a car with people you don’t really like. Now imagine one of them is someone you have wronged in the past. I wouldn’t have even gotten in that car.
Now imagine you have to depend on those people for your own survival.

I loved 10 Hours to Go- an environmental thriller about ex-friends' ride from California to Oregon and the wildfire that gets in their way. I haven't read a thriller about wildfires, and as an Oregonian, I felt that this theme was very current and fresh. I loved the mystery of figuring out the background of the characters, and the last few pages were so intense!

Be careful who you accept rides from! Especially not from ex-best friends! An enjoyable thriller with an interesting plot. Plenty of action with getting lost in the woods, a wild fire and a revenge plot.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I like this. Honestly, it's really interesting how it uses it setting and just overall these fires as a way to kind of make the tension higher. I like this book a lot.

Unfortunately the "action/revenge" happens right in the beginning of the book and the rest is just constant bickering trapped in a car together. I did not enjoy that.

"10 Hours To Go" was a very atmospheric read. The author's descriptions are vivid and it pulls you right into the story. This book would be a great fit for the YA Thriller audience.

The FMC finds herself in an incredibly unfortunate and uncomfortable position where she has to not only survive the elements but also a long road trip home after a college visit with her ex best friends that are holding onto grudges from their shared past.

I would recommend this book and enjoyed reading it.

Thank you Keely Parrack, Net Galley and Sourcebooks Fire for providing me with an ARC of this book.

Will be posted November 24th

Well, that was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a revenge story, but it's not really what it is. 10 Hours to Go becomes more a story about surviving a wildfire, as it slowly closes around them.
I don't really know what to say about this book. It wasn't really my cup of tea, and I struggled a little getting through the book. I think mostly the issue I had with this book was that it wasn't what I expected, the revenge plan felt overkill and childish, and the 'survival'/car ride felt like it was never ending.

3.5

This book was a quick read, and I enjoyed it, but it seemed like everything 'bad' happened to keep the book a bit longer.

The last few chapters really had me anxious for our MC's, and the end of the book was lovely. I'm just not sure why it fell flat for me.

3,5☆

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for an arc of this book. All opinions are my own.

This was okay. I really liked the survival element and the different obstacles the characters had to go through. The characters themselves were a bit bland and didn't really have well established personalities.

The writing was otherwise fun, but some bits of dialog were somewhat unrealistic or flowed in an odd way.

I do feel like the plot was interesting, but I was waiting for the revenge element to have a bigger part in the whole story

I would recommend this still to people looking for survival stories or younger YA readers!