Adrift Review

Page Count: 312

Genre: Adult, Thriller

Style: Ebook

Trigger Warnings: Murder, Sexual Assault, Rape, Alcoholism, Abuse (emotional and physical)

Summary:

Six friends. One weekend. Will they survive? Or will they find out the hard way that the past is something that you can’t outrun?

This book follows a group of six friends as they are going to celebrate one of their own before he goes off into married life. What they didn’t expect was that for some of them that this would be their last few days alive.

This is told in a dual timeline. One that is happening in the present day and one that was happening 10 years ago when the characters were in college and most of them were living together. In the past timeline, something happens to one of the characters to where it is still affecting the others in the present timeline. There is a killer among them and it makes them question if the person from their past is still alive making them feel guilty for what happened all those years ago.

Thoughts:

This book was fantastically written. I was constantly saying “WTF” at the surprising moments. And it was a good WTF. Because it was something that I wasn’t expecting. I knew that someone was going to be murdered, it was right on the cover the perfect murder, but I just didn’t know who the murdered party was going to be.

I found myself enjoying the short chapters that this book had. If you know me then you know that I am a sucker for a book when it comes to short chapters. It just makes me want to continue reading the book even more. It makes me go “I’ll finish after one more chapter”. The writing of this book was another reason that I couldn’t put this book down. Because with the short chapters, the writing pulled you into the book and made me as the reader want to know what was going to happen next. Wanted to know who was going to die next if someone else was going to die. It made you as the reader want to know what happened a decade ago to where they still may feel guilty after all these years later.

I loved not knowing who the murderer was. Because as soon as I got an idea of who it was the author pulled a fast one and was like “Try again”. I loved how the murderer was hiding in plain sight pretty much the entire time. But I wasn’t a big fan of the fact that the murderer was like “I did it so that way no one could go to the cops who found the remains from what happened 10 years ago” even though it wasn’t brought up. Hated how the murderer was paranoid for little to no reason. Like how do you know that they would have gone to the police? Just jump the gun why don’t we? And all to “protect” your best friend who didn’t ask you to kill anyone.

I also wasn’t a big fan of how the main character/narrator kept saying how he felt guilty about what happened a decade ago. The reader doesn’t get why the main character feels guilty till more toward the end of the book when you find out what happened to the person who was renting the house to the 6 friends. I usually don’t think characters deserve the outcome they are written in books but the renter got the outcome they deserved. I would have felt guilty too but at the same time it’s not like the renter didn’t have it coming. If it wasn’t them it was going to be someone else.

About The Author:

M.A. Hunter is the pen name of Stephen Edger, the Amazon bestselling author of psychological and crime thrillers, including Snatched, and the Kate Matthews series. Born in the north-east of England, he now lives in Southampton where many of his stories are set, allowing him to use his insider knowledge to deliver realistic and unsettling suspense on every page.