🩵🎭 The Thrashers 🎭🩵

• Julie Soto @juliesotowrites

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I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: YA thrillers really are That Girl. Time and time again, they deliver. And Julie Soto’s first venture into the land of YA thriller was no different.

Everyone at New Helvetia High knows The Thrashers. Everyone wants to be them. Think of the Plastics – then embroil them in a murder investigation – and you’ve got this book. When Emily Mills, an unpopular girl who desperately wanted to be a Thrasher, commits suicide, all eyes are turned on the surviving Thrashers – Jodi, Julian, Paige, Lucy and, their infamous namesake, Zack Thrasher.

With the dramatic high school setting of One Of Us Is Lying and the stakes of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, this was everything I love in a thriller. There was even a sprinkling of romance in there too (Ms. Soto, I’m begging you to give us a Jodulian – can that be a ship name? – novella or SOMETHING! The paint prom scene lives rent free in my head).

And, of course, evvvvvvverybody is talking about that epilogue! I’ll keep it vague, don’t worry. Me personally, I don’t mind ambiguous endings and it paved the way for a potential? sequel, so I’m not complaining too much. Just be aware that you’ll be screaming at your book/Kindle/audiobook.

Overall, I’d highly recommend for a fun, pacy thriller to fly through this summer. This was my first work by Julie Soto but now consider me officially A Fan.

Have you read anything by Julie Soto? And are you as big a fan as YA thrillers as me?