Ｔｉｔｌｅ： Tell Me What Really Happened
Ａｕｔｈｏｒ： Chelsea Sedoti
Ｓｅｒｉｅｓ： Standalone
Ｒａｔｉｎｇ： ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
＊Ｎｏｔｅ：I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
There are stories about the woods around Salvation Creek, about the people who have gone missing. Now their friend is one of them. A riveting, fast-paced YA mystery told entirely through first person police interviews of four teens over the course of a few hours.
It was all her idea. They would get away from their parents and spend the weekend camping. Down by Salvation Creek, the five of them would make smores, steal kisses, share secrets.
But sometime around midnight, she vanished.
Now the four friends who came back are under suspicion―and they each have a very different story to tell about what happened in the woods.
The clock is ticking. What are they hiding? Who is lying? Dark truths must come to light if their friend is to be found...
Told entirely through first-person police interviews, this riveting mystery asks: what really happened that night?
"How egotistical is it to assume we already know everything about places where no humans have set foot?"
I. Loved. This. Book! The author chose to tell the story through an interesting format and it definitely paid off. It was so easy and fun to get totally wrapped up in the story. I got sucked in so fast. The story is told exclusively through police interviews so it feels like you're investigating right alongside the cops. You get the thrill of trying to pick apart their story and connect statements to other interviews. It was so fun!
Each character played a bit of a stereotype, but in a good way. I could tell them apart and each of them had a unique lens that changed the way certain events were seen. It made it that much more interesting to try and put the facts together. What was true and what wasn't?
The ending was a bit anti-climatic. In the end, it was so simple, but I really hoped for something more. At the same time, I think it was interesting to look back on everything and see how each character's memories had been a little flawed and influenced the way they looked at things. It added to the confusing and made it harder to untangle the mystery.
Though I wasn't a huge fan of how things ended, I still had so much fun reading this book that I would still highly recommend it to anyone who wants a quick mystery/thriller to get through!
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