Six teenagers take off for a week in Florida for high school spring break (do high school students do that? Red, the Lavoy siblings, and three other friends—Reyna Flores-Serrano, Arthur Moore, and Simon Yoo—embark in a borrowed RV on a journey to Gulf Shores but instead find themselves in the crosshairs of a long-range rifle held by a man demanding that one of them reveal an important secret. kind of made me want to throw her outside the RV as well because what do you mean you have a really big secret that no one can know but it's not you that the sniper wants? But she smiled and took it anyway, a glance over at the couple, picture-­perfect, even with their backs turned. Oliver doesn’t like people touching his things,” Maddy said quietly, glancing over her shoulder at her brother, sitting just a few feet behind her in the front passenger seat, fiddling with the radio as he chatted to Reyna in the driver’s seat.

but the reason i gave it 4 stars is bc the story goes so fast and it’s incredibly enjoyable even with some of the characters driving me crazy and i actually quite enjoyed it. Any anyway, if she just asked, maybe Maddy wouldn’t mind sleeping on the right tonight, or for the rest of the week.Red looked away, leaving them alone in their moment, well, as alone as they could get in an RV with six people, thirty-­one feet long. But really, they’d been driving all day, setting off from home around twelve hours ago, hadn’t they played enough road trip games? All the characters were written well in this book which I thought wouldn't be possible given the 8 hours of the plot.

The paperback of Five Survive is published on 20th July 23 and will not be shipped before that date. She grew up in Buckinghamshire and started writing stories from a young age, completing her first (poor) attempt at a book aged fifteen. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. Simon pushed his black, loosely waved hair away from his face and held an unsteady finger to his lips, saying, “Shh, a lady never tells.They were supposed to arrive at Gulf Shores around this time tomorrow, meet up with the rest of their friends, that was the plan. They’ll move for you, we’re bigger, just go,” Oliver said, reaching forward like he might grab the wheel himself. I'm an extreme scaredy-cat when it comes to anything crime or anything that could possibly happen in real life, but I ended up reading this late into the night and I was honestly scared to go to sleep because I have extremely irrational fears. Five Survive reached number four in the Sunday Times Children's and YA Fiction chart, week commencing 12/12/2022.