Title: The Thrashers
Author: Julie Soto
Genre: YA, mystery/thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5
Either you’re in or you’re out.
Welcome to the Thrashers, the elite friend group at New Helvetia High.
They’re everything everyone wants to be.
Jodi Dillon was never meant to be one of them. Julian, Lucy, Paige, and the infamous Zack Thrasher are rich, sophisticated, and love attention. Jodi feels out of place, but Zack’s her childhood best friend, so she’s in.
Then Emily Mills, who desperately wanted to be a Thrasher, dies—and the whispers about the Thrashers begin. As Emily’s journal surfaces, detectives close in, and Jodi faces an impossible choice: betray her friends or protect herself.
But as eerie messages and strange occurrences escalate, it becomes clear—Emily isn’t done with them yet.
Zack wasn’t my favorite, but I actually enjoyed all the other characters. Even surly Julian grew on me pretty quickly. The seemingly supernatural bits of this were more or less believable—or were they mere coincidence—and there were some interesting dynamics at play in the friend group. Man, the people at this high school were the worst. Four out of five of the Thrashers seemed to learn from their experiences—but I’m not sure Zack did, which was too bad. This was a solid YA read that I really enjoyed.
Julie Soto is from California. The Thrashers is her newest novel.
(Galley courtesy of St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.)
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