Five Survive

Holly Jackson knows how to weave an intricate plot and setting, and make you want to blow through the book at record speed. Five Survive starts off calm and serene before the tension ramps up quickly, and the chapters alternate between tense and revealing all the way through to the end. I have five of her books already, and I’m sure that count will increase. My only quibble is one character in the main story Is pretty useless, and would have changed nothing had they not even been written into it. See if you can determine which. Highly recommended!

I honestly think this is my fav book. WHATT

This book was very hard to put down, for someone who doesn’t spend a lot of time reading. I think I did most of my time reading this book! 100/10 recommend!!

I loved this book so much, so much detail and the plot twist is so unexpected. Highly recommend!!! Idk if a part two would fit, but I lowkey want one.

WOW!! Very intense to the end. I love the trilogy of AGGGTM but this was, dare I say, better. Just WOW!! I hope to find more of these in the works.

4.5 stars… this was a quick read, indeed. I took off .5 stars simply because it was sometimes a bit difficult to understand the main characters thought patterns and such. I also absolutely hated Oliver… the main character’s best friend’s brother. While he started out okay, by the end of the book - I was hoping for his demise lol. Anyways, I do really like this author and the first two books in the ‘good girls guide to murder’ (I didn’t read the last one yet) and this one. I look forward to reading more by her in the future.

It was amazing if your thinking about getting it get it I loved it I love anything from holly Jackson she did it again and left us on a cliff hanger like did she go but it’s really good I love it 🫶🏼

This book was definitely a page turner! I couldn’t put it down!! I loved the twist! Definitely recommend if you like books with plot twist and you are a Holly Jackson fan!

Holly is undoubtedly my favorite author I’ve discovered this year. I’d first come across her The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder series and I read the 3 books back to back, all of them in one sitting and had nearly a full 13 hour binge on the series and the 3 books. Her clever and incredibly complex, dynamic and endearing protagonist Pip from the series, along with each and every character she implements into her writing have such genuine and authentic qualities, reactions, emotions and interactions with others that they very easily and often quickly become embedded in your heart. Long after I’d finished those first 3 books, I had wondered about Pip, her family, her friends and like all inspiring characters/humans, I’d wished she’d somehow return to me in the same way as she’d become enmeshed into my thoughts and while her life and story were fictional, there was still a very strong connection between herself and my heart. This is a quality that only those of the highest caliber of creative authors can achieve. It’s even rarer that they’re able to achieve these same results with an entirely different protagonist, plot, story and narrative. Yet, somehow, the ever talented and widely intelligent and exceptionally creative writer, Holly can and HAS done this in her latest book, FIVE SURVIVE. Her compelling, thrilling and edge of your seat with anticipation tone in all of her mysterious, dangerous and cleverly crafted stories that are best at leading the reader to the conclusion, dropping hints, subtly mentioning connections that can only be described as the answer to the “who done it” questions that arise from the very outset. What sets this author far and away from other thriller, mystery genre writers is her extraordinary ability to twist, entirely change the whole plot to the opposite, unthinkable direction that has incredibly also left a trail, subtle answers yet until she’s brought you to the conclusion you’re unable to see them hidden there in plain sight beside the other hints and leads that misled you to believe, with conviction that it was another character entirely. This ability alone is beyond brilliant, it’s done differently and quite simply more expertly with each new story, plot and complex characters she imagines, beautifully crafts in has written jewels of books and thankfully shared them with her readers. I for one, may be her biggest and most impressed fan she’s got. Keep writing, Miss Holly. Reading has always been my happy place, my preferred way to spend the day and most pleasurable time spent. Reading YOUR books has amplified my ferocious love for books and the craft of writing, the passion for vocabulary, the placement of each word and wordsmiths unique influences on my own life and collective years of written paragraphs, pages of my own style that is lent an essential dose of creativity and imagination. It is through brilliant and innovative ideas that stories can become the inspirational aspects of so many bibliophiles and linguists such as myself.