Five friends are headed to Palm Key Island for the Fourth of July and one final party trip before they head off to college. No one told them their rental house was the scene of a horrific crime twenty years earlier. Will history repeat itself in Rektok Ross’s newest young adult thriller?
Riley March became a member of the 10-Squad under peculiar circumstances. The group of elite popular girls from Bishop Prep allowed Riley to join their group after one member committed suicide and Riley overheard some terrible secrets. Riley doesn’t mind her friends are shallow and superficial, because she gets to hang with the popular girls like Cam and Val and spend vacations with them. As the five girls head to a small Florida island, a hurricane is on the horizon, and a killer is setting their sights on revenge. Also, on the island is Riley’s crush, Sebastian, and several other young men ready to party. On the first night on the island, two members of the group go missing after a night out at a local bar. Later, Riley sees someone in a yellow rain slicker dragging a body over the porch. Is Riley seeing things? Can this be real? As the hurricane tracks closer, the group huddles together in the rental house, and the night takes a twisted turn. Who will confess, who will die, and who will get out alive?
SUMMER RENTAL by Rektok Ross is a thriller that delivers what it promises with young adults making bad choices, keeping secrets, and dying one by one. The characters are shallow and mean-spirited, with the exception of Riley and Sebastian. Issues are tackled such as bullying, betrayal, social media, sexuality, and entitlement. The story builds steady suspense as the author reveals the secrets that each young person is keeping. The characters are sufficiently developed with interesting and often unlikeable personalities. The pacing is good, although I would have liked to see more action in the first half of the book, which is reserved mostly for the ending. Even so, the book delivers chills and suspense with plenty of viable suspects and heinous behavior. Being a fan of young adult thriller writers R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, and Richie Tankersley Cusick, this book reminds me of the creepy slasher thrillers of the past that were so entertaining and fun. It’s a quick and compulsive read which makes for a good summer beach read.
Mean Girls meets Scream in this
heart-pounding psychological thriller about a group of
friends stranded on an island with a serial killer on the
loose.
Riley March and her friends are headed to ritzy, remote
Palm Key Island for one last blow-out party weekend before
college. It's the vacation of a lifetime: beautiful beaches,
epic nightlife, and hot guys like Riley's crush-superstar
soccer player Sebastian Ramos. There's just one catch.
Everyone on this trip is hiding something. Riley is hiding
her past in order to fit in. Sebastian is hiding his
feelings for Riley. And someone is hiding what really
happened to Jordyn Chang, a classmate that mysteriously died
last summer.
Things take a dark turn after one of their friends goes
missing, and a hurricane cuts the group off from
civilization. Trapped inside their rental house, a killer
stalks them one by one. No one is safe. Everyone's a
suspect. As the body count rises, Riley and her friends will
have to confront the secrets they've been keeping if they
want to stay alive...
Bestselling, award-winning author Rektok Ross returns
with this riveting beach read perfect for fans of:
Unputdownable and fast-paced thrillers, murder mystery
books, and suspense romance fiction
Summer books and vacation reads
Stories that make you think like Reese Witherspoon book
club books
Colleen Hoover meets Pretty Little Liars
Bingeworthy TikTok books
Natasha Preston, Lucy Foley, Holly Jackson, James
Patterson, and Frieda McFadden novels
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