A thoughtful summer thriller with a touch of the supernatural. Main character was easy to sympathize with, supporting characters were reasonably well constructed, and the resolution of the mystery was satisfying and felt earned.

ARC Review!!!
Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC.

Lucia finds out that for the summer that she's going to spend it at Nantucket with her mom's new boyfriend. After going through a tough time, losing her friend, Lucia's mom believes that a summer away from Pittsburgh will be good. As they arrive at Nantucket and the first couple of days there are good until Lucia meets 3 girls. She refers to them as the "Three" and these are girls who are outgoing and do whatever they want.
As time goes on Lucia notices that they're something off about them and Eric, her mom's boyfriend son, also notices. There's one morning where Lucia goes on a walk and finds a dead body. The police are called and it brings a bunch of previous old memories from her best friend's death.
No one knows who this mystery girl is and no one is able to identify her. Lucia is going out of her mind trying to find answers. She's constantly being told "Nantucket is perfect and nothing bad ever happens here".
The story developed very good, that plot twist was insane. The ending was cool, a cliff hanger but cool none the less. I hated Lucia, lol. I found her very annoying.
3 stars!!!

Nothing Bad Happens Here was such a fun summer thriller! I really enjoyed the setting, mystery, and characters!

A surprising ride!

Lucia has been a recluse ever since her best friend passed. Now, her mom has met someone and Lucia is whisked away to spend the summer with him and his son in Nantucket. While Lucia thinks the summer will be boring because nothing ever happens in Nantucket, she’s in for the surprise of her life when she finds a dead body washed ashore on the beach. Due to her past, she becomes obsessed with trying to find out more about the girl. Meanwhile, she makes friends with three gorgeous girls who are keeping secrets of their own. L

I wouldn’t call this a thriller necessarily, but to call it anything else would give the story away. I pretty much had everything figured out early on, but the story was still fun. I liked that the plot was clear and that it wrapped into Lucia’s past. However, I felt like it was a lot of buildup for the end to be a little unsatisfying.

I would’ve really liked if it explored the magical side a little more. I wonder if there’s going to be a number two?

Overall, I think this was a fun read, and it kept me reading till the end. I think this will appeal to a large audience!

I love Nantucket so when I seen that this book was set up in Nantucket I just had to read it. I loved every moment of this book. It was part mystery and part fantasy.

Lucia and her mother are going on vacation to Nantucket to be with her mother's boyfriend. At first Lucia doesn't want to go but she soon warms up to the place. It is at her summer job she meets three girls who are mysterious and fun living a care free life. But then one day Lucia discovers a body on the beach and it brings back terrible memories for her.

This is when she becomes suspicious of her new friends and follows them out to see where they are going. It is once she has been caught by the three that she finds out they have been looking for their friend and that is when Lucia tells them that she is dead.

This is where the story takes off and there are so many twists and turns that you go for the craziest ride. Plus that ending is just freaking amazing! I was like no freaking way did it go down like that. This is one of those books that is a must read.

I was very intrigued by the premise of this one but unfortunately I was ultimately bored. I wasn't able to get into it at all. It didn't hold my attention, nothing was happening and there were no thrills or anything happening for that matter. I had to DNF.

I loved the Nantucket atmosphere and island life and enjoyed the lore around selkies. Lucia was frustrating at times, but I liked seeing her come out of her shell with Selah's crew. There were some loopholes webbed throughout the story which dropped my overall rating down. Thank you NetGalley for an ARC.

Actual Rating 2.5

<b>THANKS TO THE NETGALLEY AND PUBLISHER FOR THIS DIGITAL ARC IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW</b>

Lucia had a terrible and sad year. She just wanted to stay in throughout the summer. But her Mom had other plans, and now they are in Nantucket to stay with her new boyfriend, who lives with his son. Nantucket is a small and safe island with nice people and many summer visitors. Life in Nantucket is not bad until Luica stumbled upon a corpse on the beach which brings back a lot of the trauma. The identity of the corpse is a mystery and apparently, no one knows her. Lucia really wants to know the dead girl's story. But this is not an easy task when no one is giving away anything.

I won't label this book as a mystery, as it took 80 pages to find the corpse. Then the story rotated around several other things so the mystery element was like 30% of the book. I really liked the world-building of the story and a few relationship dynamics. Lucia's mom's idea to stay with Todd didn't make sense as their chemistry wasn't convincing. Lu is one of the stupidest MCs, I've encountered, her moral compass is really skewed. The trio and their character were one-dimensional, and why everyone enabled their actions? The story was slow-paced so after 150 pages I skimmed a lot. The ending was so lacking and the story had several loopholes. Ending also proved that, Lu is not only stupid but also a HUGE hypocrite.

⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 (4.5)

NOTHING BAD HAPPENS HERE by Rachel Ekstrom Courage
Thank you so much Netgalley and GetUnderlined for the earc(Mar 18)

When Lucia's mom drags her to New England to meet her boyfriend, Lucia is reluctant. Her mother says it will be good for her, help her dwindle less on the past. When Lucia finds a body on the beach, she's taken back to the accident, and all she wants to do is figure out who and what happened to Jane Doe. As she investigates, she becomes entwined with The Three and their world.
NOTHING BAD HAPPENS HERE was one of my most anticipated reads of 2025, and I was happy to get a early copy. It was everything I wanted and more.
This book delivered. Like capital delivered. Everything that happened was nonstop boom, boom, boom as the mystery grew deeper and more things happened. This book was thrilling and it gripped me. Though it took me longer than I would have expected to read, it was great. Interesting, mysterious, and twisty. Oh the twists. The first one I sort of called when said character was introduced because it felt obvious. I even called another one, though that was never proven to be true (mystic and supernatural). Now, when I tell you my jaw hit the floor when that final twist flashed across the page. For real!? How? Why? Shocking.
I loved this. I loved that it was intriguing and action packed. I even loved how the ending left room for the reader to decide what happens next. 10/10 would recommend to thriller lovers and even supernaturally lovers.

Lucia’s mother drags her off to a summer in Nantucket with her new boyfriend. Lucia recently experienced a tragedy and feels alone in the world and is looking for new connections. In her first week there, she finds a body on the beach. She is also suspicious of other things that start happening so she starts trying to figure out who killed the girl found on the beach.

This was a good, fast-paced young adult thriller. There were also some fantasy type vibes that were never truly confirmed but made you wonder what truly happened. In the end Lucia finds out the truth but it just brings her more drama and problems.

There are a lot of twists and turns throughout this and there was even some romance vibes too. This was a very quick read for me, because I wanted to know who was guilty of the crime. This will be a good spring break or beach read. The descriptions of the beach town made me want to go to the beach right now.

Thank you to netgalley for this free advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

I came for the rich people behaving badly murder mystery and stayed for the surprise sirens. I had so much fun seeing how this story unfolded and I loved Lucia and wanted to shake the adults in her life. I didn't totally buy into the final twist but the ending did feel satisfying.

I loved this book so much. It's a beautifully written page-turner with a protagonist that feels so real and relatable. The underlying themes—no spoilers, but: wealth imbalance, grief/healing, mental health, a little bit of female rage—feel so relevant to this particular moment in time. Publishing in March . . . and the author also wrote a Golden Girls mystery that's publishing in April!

have some mixed emotions about this. Overall, I liked it as a fairly standard YA mystery/thriller. I did figure out who the killer was, and that part was a little predictable for me.

I was both intrigued by and irritated by the other twist. It was unexpected for sure, and it opened up some great misdirection, but I also felt a little tricked into reading something that turned into something else. Fortunately, the fact that it still remained a mystery/thriller overrode my annoyance.

Given the twist, I can’t help but eye roll a little at the names of the dead girl and the killer, though.


I’ll definitely read more from this author in the future.

Thanks, NetGalley and Delacorte for the ARC.

Thank you Netgalley and Random House Children's for the arc!

Lucia is on vacation in Nantucket with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend. While there, she stumbles on the dead body of a girl no one seems to know. Lucia decides to investigate and send some old wounds in the process while meeting three girls who may not be what they seem and discovering new secrets about the people around her.

I really loved this one! I love the setting of a summer on Nantucket and the author did a great job bringing it to life. I also loved the writing and the characters, especially the Three.

Could not put this one down! Not only did the author make Nantucket come to life, she created believable (and flawed) characters to care about. Twisty and fun - highly recommend!

I really enjoyed this book a lot. I really loved the Three. The writing and characters were amazing! I didn’t feel like it really had any slow parts and it kept me reading more to find out what happened. I will probably be thinking about this one for a while! Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for a copy of the arc in return for an honest review!

Lucia is on vacation in Nantucket with her mom and her mom’s new boyfriend. While on the beach one morning, Lucia stumbles upon the dead body of a teenage girl on the beach. Finding the body opens old wounds from her past and the dead girl is unclaimed and unknown. Lucia feels the need to investigate it herself to give the girl a name and find out what happened to her when not everything is as it seems.

"Nothing Bad Happens Here" is a fun and gripping page-turner that hooked me from the first page. Rachel Ekstrom Courage's expertly crafted pacing drew me deeper into novel's central mystery with each chapter. With unexpected twists, relentless tension, and a touch of the supernatural, "Nothing Bad Happens Here" kept me guessing until the last page. It's a must-read for anyone who loves suspenseful and addictive YA thrillers.

So the whole premise is girl finds corpse, girl kinda investigates, right? Except what happens is that girl finds corpse and corpse is not mentioned again until the book is 75% over. Seriously.