Friday, August 18, 2017

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

🌟🌟 out of 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Synopsis:
She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.
And that she must run.

In her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving murder, identity theft, and biological warfare. Follow Cady and Ty (her accidental savior turned companion), as they race against the clock to stay alive, in The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die.

I was not a big fan of this book. It started off really well with the main character waking up to men speaking about finishing her off. She has no memory of who she is or what is happening. The only thing that she knows for sure is that these men want to kill her so she has to come up with a way to escape. The book continues to be tense and interesting until about 50 pages in. That's the point where events in the book are not realistic any longer. In the synopsis, Ty is mentioned as the main character's accidental savior but it makes no sense for her to meet him and then to have him continue helping her throughout the book. He doesn't know her. She could be crazy for all he knows. I thought that that the book felt like a bad action movie because  everything is so over the top. It would make more sense if it were realistic. I also thought that Cady made so many mistakes that any person would know were missteps due to common sense when you are running and/or hiding from people who are trying to kill you.


1 comment:

  1. I read a book by Henry earlier this year, I think, and was unimpressed for a lot of the reasons you didn't like this one. Now I know not to bother giving the author another chance. Sad.

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