
Title: What the Other Three Don’t Know
Author: Spencer Hyde
Genre: YA
Rating: 3.8 out of 5
When Indie lost her mom to the river, her world crumbled around her. Now she’s the loner, the quiet one, the one no one else notices—living only for the day she can leave her small town behind and go where no one knows her. She never wants to set foot near the river that took her mom again.
But for her journalism class, that’s exactly what she must do: take a rafting trip with three almost-strangers from her class. India would rather do anything else, but she has no choice. What she doesn’t realize is the other three have secrets just like she does. And this rafting trip will bring all of them to the surface.
I enjoyed What the Other Three Don’t Know, but it was fairly predictable. And…the “secrets” weren’t exactly earth-shattering. I thought the four teens bonded really quickly, so that felt a little off to me, but their banter alone made the book worth reading.
(Galley courtesy of Shadow Mountain Publishing in exchange for an honest review.)
Umm… not to nitpick about plausibility, but I think if the MC went to her teacher and said her mom drowned in that river and it was a HUGE trigger for her, the whole plotline could be averted. Otherwise, this book seems like it has a cool idea behind it, even if it’s nothing mind-blowing.
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I don’t disagree with you. I enjoyed the read, it just wasn’t totally believable for me.
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