“Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting”
Author: Diana Urban
Genre: Thriller, Suspense, YA
Published on: 17 March 2020
Amber Prescott, a music geek, is invited to a scholarship dinner along with 5 of her classmates: the jock, the loner, the stoner, the brain and the queen bee.
What do they have in common?
Nothing!
But it just does not end there, they are forced to play a sadistic game in a trapped room with a bomb, a syringe filled with lethal liquid and a note instructing them to kill someone amongst them.
They have 59 minutes
until everyone settled on one person to kill?
or
until one of them attempted murder single handed?
will they work together to find a way out of this?
or
will they chance the bomb being fake and wait it out?
“No matter how frantically you claw at rationality, how desperately you cling to common decency, you eventually give in to your basic instinct to survive.”
As the hour goes by, they become frantic. And their morals and judgements are put to a test.
Bullying, peer–pressure, suicide, gun violence, drug abuse and societal and parental expectations are huge themes to the story, all wrapped in complicated drama and twisted lies.
It is a good book for raising awareness (the ending even has remedies for suicidal thoughts).
But apart from that, if we talk about the storyline, it SUCKS
According to the genre, it is a thriller book, but I completely disagree and it isn’t as interesting as the summary makes it sound.
Moreover, the book has a back and forth narration, between two different timelines. From past the story abruptly comes to the present and so on. The brain shifting was very tiring. I also found the story a bit unrealistic and extreme as all of it was based on revenge.
According to the plot setter,
“Some people can’t see the light until you shutter them in darkness”
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