I'll Sleep When I've Read... The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

 

Title: The Girl Who Survived

Author: Lisa Jackson

Publication: 28 June 2022

Format: Kindle eArc via NetGalley & Kensington

Amazon Description

In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the #1 New York Times bestseller, the lone survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the awful truth about the fateful night that left her forever marked…

Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl?

All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie—who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving command: Don’t make a sound.

As people close to her start to die horrible deaths, Kara, who is slowly and surely unraveling, believes she is the killer’s ultimate target.
 
Kara survived once. But will she survive again? How many times can she be the girl who survived?

Ramble-y Teaserish Stuff

Mid-day Saturday I got notification via NetGalley that Kensington had made Lisa Jackson's The Girl Who Survived available to me.

I started reading about 2:30pm. I went to bed, book finished, about 1am. I did make dinner, watch some tv, and snooze a little on the couch between times, but all in all this was most definitely an "I'll Sleep When I've Read..." kind of book!

It wasn't as "on the edge of the seat" as some suspense/thriller, and I felt like I could have probably edited out at least a quarter of it from repetition without missing a beat, but I still couldn't bring myself to put it down for more than a few minutes -- and not because I wanted to have something to post this morning. I needed to know what happened twenty years ago when the book began. Towards the end there were several audible "holy heck" moments which got me some strange looks from the 16 year old sitting across the room from me (I think he was waiting to sleep until I'd read, also). 

These were the moments that jumped my rating from 3 stars to 4 ... and will make me look for more Lisa Jackson books to read as this was my first.

If you want to share whatever has kept you up past your bedtime because you just needed one more chapter ... or the entire book ... please comment! My TBR pile is already toppling, but I can always add more.