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Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:"A bold and expertly plotted page-turner." �Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie From the author of The Cheerleaders, comes a thriller about best friends on a weekend getaway that goes horribly, dangerously wrong. THREE BEST FRIENDS, A LAKE HOUSE, A SECRET TRIP � WHAT COULD GO WRONG? It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail with no memory of the past forty-eight hours. Now everyone wants answers�most of all, Claire. She remembers Friday night, but after that . . . nothing. And now Kat and Jesse�her best friends�are missing. What happened on the mountain? And where are Kat and Jesse? Claire knows the answers are buried somewhere in her memory. But as she's learning, everyone has secrets�even her best friends. And she's pretty sure she's not going to like what she remembers.… (more)
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Claire, her best friend Kat and her boyfriend Jesse all decide to head to Kat's family's mountain getaway instead of
A great premise that opens up all kinds of avenues for the plot to take. And the lead character has amnesia? Another device that I really like - trying to figure out what the truth is and what is misconception.
Now, I'm years past, but I think Thomas has nailed the dialogue, the worries, the pressures and the complicated relationships that the teen years bring. I liked Claire as a lead character and was behind her as she tries to deal with the aftermath, the guilt and the suspicion. It is her voice we hear for the most part, but Kat is also given a voice. Thomas artfully manipulates the reader as the book continues - I had bought into the lies being told by some of the supporting characters and was caught completely off guard by the twists and turns woven into the last bit of the book. Especially that last one - I'm still not completely on board with it, but it's a darn good one. I did have to suspend disbelief for some of the police procedures (or lack of), but that's just my pragmatic nature. Just go with it. That Weekend makes for some entertaining summer reading.
I really liked Thomas's writing. This was a first read of her, but won't be my last!
Next she knows, she's bleeding from the back of her head, lying cold and alone on a hiking trail where an elderly woman finds her. Claire remembers nothing about coming to the lake house, or what happened afterward. The story pulls you along through the increasingly frantic search for Kat and Jesse, a very troubling series of revelations and then you're returned to Claire's reality some time later. She's been through a giant emotional wringer and is determined to piece together her memories and find out what really happened on that mountain. Doing so is not only risky, but even more painful as she digs until she finally comes up with an answer. At the end, there are no winners, just badly scarred survivors. It's an excellent YA mystery.