Toxic by Nicci Cloke Book Review
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This has to be one of the best books I’ve read in a while! It starts off with a group of friends going on a guys holiday plus one girl and turns into a bunch of mysteries and confusion!
One thing I liked about this book is that it was in three different perspectives.
First was Hope. She had tagged along on holiday with her 5 guy friends: Dev, Nate, JB, Zack and Logan to Malia to get drunk and party every night. They were having an amazing time and decided they would spend one of their days on a booze cruise, which is where everything started going wrong.
The next morning, after the party, Hope was woken up on a beach by two guys she’d never met before. Her friends hadn’t made sure she’d got home the night before. But that wasn’t all.
Skip to the next section which is in Logan’s point of view. Logan is Hope’s ex boyfriend but they’re still good friends. During this part of the book we find out that Logan is having a hard time coming to terms with what’s happened during the holiday.
He feels bad for flirting with Hope while having a girlfriend as well as leading her on to believe he wanted to get back together. He feels bad for leaving Hope on the beach where anything could’ve happened to her. He feels bad for being led astray by Zack while he was drunk and beating a guy up two against one. He also feels bad that a girl he met once while on holiday goes missing, he worried this could’ve happened to Hope. And later on this feeling is worsened once we learn she was found dead.
He ends up breaking up with his girlfriend and locking himself away in his room, barely sleeping or doing anything. His cousin later says she thinks he has depression and he does eventually start accepting people’s help.
The last section is in the point of view of Daisy. She was Logan’s girlfriend before he broke up with after the holiday. He believed she deserved better and that breaking up with her would help but all it did was make the situation worse and break her heart, especially since he did it over text.
This last part was a bit more confusing to me as it was written like Daisy was writing to someone. I thought at first it was Logan, it wasn’t but we don’t find out who it was straight away. As it goes on, we see the girls getting ready to go to a party in which Daisy gets drunk, has no idea what she’s doing and then passes out. In which time she is led outside by who she would consider a friend to “get some air”. Instead, this person is pulled off her unconscious body as she lay on the floor. This person is Zack.
The person who jokingly called Hope names after she got back to the hotel after that night alone on the beach. The person who convinced Logan it was a good idea to follow the drunk guy down an alleyway and beat him up because he was being arrogant on the boat. The person that didn’t bother contacting Logan to see if he was alright like all his other friends did. The person that completely shuts out his friend JB after he comes out as gay because who knows what people will think.
This man should be a Disney villain. He’s worse than them all put together. Towards the end of the book, JB shows up at Zack’s house, drunk. He’s upset and tells him he’s wrong about everything he’s done, that he shouldn’t have done it. He’s leaves after Zack’s dad and brother turn up. But not even halfway home and he’s beaten up by the brother and his friends to the point he has to go to the hospital. After that they have nothing to do with him and he ignores them like nothing ever happened. The rest of them end up going to Ibiza a year later to celebrate Hope’s birthday. They all seem really genuinely happy. It’s unclear whether Logan and Daisy are back together but I like to hope so.
I really hope this book has a sequel at some point as I loved it so much and I’ll definitely be reading it again!
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This has to be one of the best books I’ve read in a while! It starts off with a group of friends going on a guys holiday plus one girl and turns into a bunch of mysteries and confusion!
One thing I liked about this book is that it was in three different perspectives.
First was Hope. She had tagged along on holiday with her 5 guy friends: Dev, Nate, JB, Zack and Logan to Malia to get drunk and party every night. They were having an amazing time and decided they would spend one of their days on a booze cruise, which is where everything started going wrong.
The next morning, after the party, Hope was woken up on a beach by two guys she’d never met before. Her friends hadn’t made sure she’d got home the night before. But that wasn’t all.
Skip to the next section which is in Logan’s point of view. Logan is Hope’s ex boyfriend but they’re still good friends. During this part of the book we find out that Logan is having a hard time coming to terms with what’s happened during the holiday.
He feels bad for flirting with Hope while having a girlfriend as well as leading her on to believe he wanted to get back together. He feels bad for leaving Hope on the beach where anything could’ve happened to her. He feels bad for being led astray by Zack while he was drunk and beating a guy up two against one. He also feels bad that a girl he met once while on holiday goes missing, he worried this could’ve happened to Hope. And later on this feeling is worsened once we learn she was found dead.
He ends up breaking up with his girlfriend and locking himself away in his room, barely sleeping or doing anything. His cousin later says she thinks he has depression and he does eventually start accepting people’s help.
The last section is in the point of view of Daisy. She was Logan’s girlfriend before he broke up with after the holiday. He believed she deserved better and that breaking up with her would help but all it did was make the situation worse and break her heart, especially since he did it over text.
This last part was a bit more confusing to me as it was written like Daisy was writing to someone. I thought at first it was Logan, it wasn’t but we don’t find out who it was straight away. As it goes on, we see the girls getting ready to go to a party in which Daisy gets drunk, has no idea what she’s doing and then passes out. In which time she is led outside by who she would consider a friend to “get some air”. Instead, this person is pulled off her unconscious body as she lay on the floor. This person is Zack.
The person who jokingly called Hope names after she got back to the hotel after that night alone on the beach. The person who convinced Logan it was a good idea to follow the drunk guy down an alleyway and beat him up because he was being arrogant on the boat. The person that didn’t bother contacting Logan to see if he was alright like all his other friends did. The person that completely shuts out his friend JB after he comes out as gay because who knows what people will think.
This man should be a Disney villain. He’s worse than them all put together. Towards the end of the book, JB shows up at Zack’s house, drunk. He’s upset and tells him he’s wrong about everything he’s done, that he shouldn’t have done it. He’s leaves after Zack’s dad and brother turn up. But not even halfway home and he’s beaten up by the brother and his friends to the point he has to go to the hospital. After that they have nothing to do with him and he ignores them like nothing ever happened. The rest of them end up going to Ibiza a year later to celebrate Hope’s birthday. They all seem really genuinely happy. It’s unclear whether Logan and Daisy are back together but I like to hope so.
I really hope this book has a sequel at some point as I loved it so much and I’ll definitely be reading it again!