Title: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Author: Trish Lundy
Genre: YA
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
High school might be officially over, but the real nightmare is just beginning. When two best friends are attacked on graduation night, only one of them makes it out alive.
Left for dead at an abandoned house but determined to find out who killed her best friend, Rose is rescued by former high school quarterback and heartthrob, Jake, who becomes an unexpected ally. . . and maybe something more. But when she learns that fifteen years ago, another girl suffered the exact same fate in the exact same place, she wonders if a murderer might be back with a vengeance. . . or is a copycat killer on the loose?
Time is running out, because whoever the killer is, they’re eager to correct their biggest letting Rose live. As Rose follows the trail of evidence, she’s led down a path of horrors that threatens to expose the insidious secrets at the heart of her community—secrets the killer will do anything to keep quiet.
This was…a decent read. It wasn’t horrible and I didn’t figure out what was going on before the reveal, but I wasn’t on the edge of my seat, either. There were a few decent red herrings and I did question Rose’s headspace a time of two—why would you visit an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night? Why?—and some of her decisions seemed a bit like a horror movie character who you just know is about to die, but this was a quick, entertaining read.
Trish Lundy lives on the West Coast. The Worst Is Yet To Come is her newest novel.
(Galley courtesy of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) in exchange for an honest review.)
