Once again, Lexie Elliot doesn’t disappoint. After waiting 2 years since her last release, I can safely say that How To Kill Your Best Friend has succeeded my expectations. Elliot knows how to keep a reader hooked, and when you think you’ve got it all figured out and it’s about to end, she hits you with a twist and leaves it there.
With a bit of a predictable ending, I’m not sure if it’s just because I love the genre, How To Kill Your Best Friend follows Georgie and Bronwyn, as well as some others, after the death of their best friend, Lissa. Starting out at her memorial at the sunny resort her and her husband, Jem, own together, Georgie is upset that she never made it on the last group trip together, as that was the last time everyone saw Lissa. She feels like it is her fault that Lissa has passed, thinking that she could have stopped her is she was able to speak to her on the trip she missed. Lissa’s death was presumed either accidental or suicide, as she was seen swimming in a dangerous cove of the resort, which supposedly takes who wants to be taken.
With secret mesages targeting both Georgie and Bronwyn, they suspect someone is after them, threatening them to tell the truth about Lissa’s death, but both of them are completely in the dark about what they are supposed to do. Since these messages started, Georgie begins to suspect that Lissa is still alive, but everyone else shoots her down, they’re in the real world, so when someone dies, they’re dead. Adamant, Georgie goes off on her own to try and find Lissa, insisting that she is behind the messages that are being left.
Told from the dual perspective of Georgie and Bronwyn, we get to see inside both of their heads, knowing their true throughts throughout their trip, as well as what they really thought of Lissa, and it turns out, Lissa wasn’t really the best of company at times. They both thought that she was very tiring, a life of the party sort. The more we learn about her, through Georgie and Bronwyn’s memories, as well as emails to Georgie, we see that she maybe wasn’t the most stable person, thinking that Jem had been having an affair, and she had an idea who with.
When a storm hits the resort less than 24 hours before the guests are set to leave, is when things start to hit the fan, and things are revealed, which came to a surprise to both me and the characters. With Georgie’s mind now changed about Lissa, she is sure Jem was the one who killed her, her life insurance on his mind. She finds something that links to the night of Lissa’s disappearance, and your mind begins to turn, thinking of something different that could have happened, so close to the end of the story.
Things finally come to the surface (no pun intended) about the night Lissa went missing, and even though I had guessed what was going to happen, I was still in shock when everything was revealed, as I have been with Elliot’s other work. She will always one of my instant read authors, I can’t praise her enough! It turns out that nobody was quite right on the events of Lissa’s disappearance, and new aspects come to light.
Just when you think it’s all over, Elliot uncovers one last mystery that I had forgotten about, and I won’t lie, I found it just as shocking as the plot itself. Ending on somewhat of a cliffhanger, you can grasp an idea of how things will go after you close the book, and it makes you think of what could now happen. This is the kind of open ending I enjoy, not when you’ve read an entire series and still receive no answers.
I, once again, highly recommend Lexie’s work, with all of her books exceeding expectations, and not being what you think they will be.
With a bit of a predictable ending, I’m not sure if it’s just because I love the genre, How To Kill Your Best Friend follows Georgie and Bronwyn, as well as some others, after the death of their best friend, Lissa. Starting out at her memorial at the sunny resort her and her husband, Jem, own together, Georgie is upset that she never made it on the last group trip together, as that was the last time everyone saw Lissa. She feels like it is her fault that Lissa has passed, thinking that she could have stopped her is she was able to speak to her on the trip she missed. Lissa’s death was presumed either accidental or suicide, as she was seen swimming in a dangerous cove of the resort, which supposedly takes who wants to be taken.
With secret mesages targeting both Georgie and Bronwyn, they suspect someone is after them, threatening them to tell the truth about Lissa’s death, but both of them are completely in the dark about what they are supposed to do. Since these messages started, Georgie begins to suspect that Lissa is still alive, but everyone else shoots her down, they’re in the real world, so when someone dies, they’re dead. Adamant, Georgie goes off on her own to try and find Lissa, insisting that she is behind the messages that are being left.
Told from the dual perspective of Georgie and Bronwyn, we get to see inside both of their heads, knowing their true throughts throughout their trip, as well as what they really thought of Lissa, and it turns out, Lissa wasn’t really the best of company at times. They both thought that she was very tiring, a life of the party sort. The more we learn about her, through Georgie and Bronwyn’s memories, as well as emails to Georgie, we see that she maybe wasn’t the most stable person, thinking that Jem had been having an affair, and she had an idea who with.
When a storm hits the resort less than 24 hours before the guests are set to leave, is when things start to hit the fan, and things are revealed, which came to a surprise to both me and the characters. With Georgie’s mind now changed about Lissa, she is sure Jem was the one who killed her, her life insurance on his mind. She finds something that links to the night of Lissa’s disappearance, and your mind begins to turn, thinking of something different that could have happened, so close to the end of the story.
Things finally come to the surface (no pun intended) about the night Lissa went missing, and even though I had guessed what was going to happen, I was still in shock when everything was revealed, as I have been with Elliot’s other work. She will always one of my instant read authors, I can’t praise her enough! It turns out that nobody was quite right on the events of Lissa’s disappearance, and new aspects come to light.
Just when you think it’s all over, Elliot uncovers one last mystery that I had forgotten about, and I won’t lie, I found it just as shocking as the plot itself. Ending on somewhat of a cliffhanger, you can grasp an idea of how things will go after you close the book, and it makes you think of what could now happen. This is the kind of open ending I enjoy, not when you’ve read an entire series and still receive no answers.
I, once again, highly recommend Lexie’s work, with all of her books exceeding expectations, and not being what you think they will be.