All Your Twisted Secrets
by Diana Urban
What is it about:
This thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending.
Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.
What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill … or else everyone dies.
Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead. As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something. And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?
What did I think of it:
This premise sounded too good to resist, so even while Diana Urban was a new to me author I decided to take a chance and preordered this book.
I will confess I was a bit apprehensive as this book is compared to One of Us Is Lying, which I hated because as soon as one of the characters was described as Goth I knew how the book would end.
Luckily All Your Twisted Secrets is nothing like One of Us Is Lying though. I'm happy to report that this book is everything I hoped it would be and more!
The story is told alternating between the Now, where the six students are trapped in a room, and the year leading up to that moment. Everything is told from Amber's point of view. She is trying hard to get everyone working together and to get out of the room alive, but the flashbacks reveal why this is a lot harder than you'd think.
As the minutes tick by and you learn more about each person in the room, it gets more clear why these six were put there. As tensions rise and people start to unravel you won't want to put this book down until you know how it all will end!
You bet I'll keep an eye out for the next book by Urban!
Why should you read it:
It's an awesome YA thriller.
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