You’ll be the death of me book review

You’ll be the death of me was gifted to me in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Book: You’ll be the death of me
Author: Karen McManus
Publication date: 30th November 2021
Genre: thriller Rating: 3 Stars

Synopsis

Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day.

Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out–he’s been working two jobs since his family’s business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up…. again.

So when Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They’ll ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they’ve barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say…

Until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school–and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it’s about to get worse.

It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common. They all have a connection to the dead kid. And they’re all hiding something.

Now they’re all wondering–could it be that their chance reconnection wasn’t by chance after all?

From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand-new pulse-pounding thriller. It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with murder when three old friends relive an epic ditch day, and it goes horribly–and fatally–wrong.

My Thoughts

I’ve only read one of Karen McManus’ books before and I was super excited to give this one a try as I do want to read more YA thrillers.

I really enjoyed this story. Throughout we are following three different perspectives Ivy, Mateo and Cal. They used to be friends but now they’re not and suddenly things are going very wrong.

All three of these characters are hiding some secret which I found really intriguing from the start. What are they hiding and why? Although I did guess one of the secrets I didn’t see the others coming which caught me by surprise.

I really like seeing all three sides of the story and seeing the different perspectives on how things are going

The diversity in this book was really cool to see. We have a black character and we also have a boy who had two dads which I really loved seeing.

Throughout the story you become suspicious of many people throughout the story because you have absolutely no idea who murdered the kid that they know. I was surprised when everything became revealed and just felt things ended a little bit conveniently but i still had a fun time reading this one.

This was such a fun read and I’ll definitely be picking up more from this author.

About The Author

Karen M. McManus is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of young adult thrillers. Her work, which includes the One of Us Is Lying series, Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, and You’ll Be the Death of Me, has been translated into more than 40 languages worldwide. Karen lives in Massachusetts and holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Northeastern University, which she mostly uses to draft fake news stories for her novels.

For more information, visit www.karenmcmanus.com or @writerkmc on Twitter and Instagram.