Reckless Girls

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Call Number: Fiction / Hawkins, Rachel, Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Hawkins, Rachel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She's also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off the beaten path. But like Lux, they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape. Shimmering on the horizon after days at sea, Meroe Island is every bit the paradise the foursome expects, despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and even rumors of murder. But what they don't expect is to discover another boat already anchored off Meroe's sandy beaches. The owners of the Azure Sky, Jake and Eliza, are a true golden couple: gorgeous, laidback, and if their sleek catamaran and well-stocked bar are any indication, rich. Now a party of six, the new friends settle in to experience life on an exotic island, and the serenity of being completely off the grid. Lux hasn't felt like she truly belonged anywhere in years, yet here on Meroe, with these fellow free spirits, she finally has a sense of peace. But with the arrival of a skeevy stranger sailing alone in pursuit of a darker kind of good time, the balance of the group is disrupted. Soon, cracks begin to emerge: it seems that Brittany and Amma haven't been completely honest with Lux about their pasts--and perhaps not even with each other. And though Jake and Eliza seem like the perfect pair, the rocky history of their relationship begins to resurface, and their reasons for sailing to Meroe might not be as innocent as they first appeared. When it becomes clear that the group is even more cut off from civilization than they initially thought, it starts to feel like the island itself is closing in on them. And when one person goes missing, and another turns up dead, Lux begins to wonder if any of them are going to make it off the island alive"-- Provided by publisher.

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Not much of a thriller submitted by bjkoch on June 24, 2022, 11:14am Less Lucy Foley, more.... Colleen Hoover? the pace of the book is exciting but it loses itself in trying to one up each character's "recklessness"

Not much of a thriller submitted by bjkoch on June 24, 2022, 11:14am Less Lucy Foley, more.... Colleen Hoover? the pace of the book is exciting but it loses itself in trying to one up each character's "recklessness"

Unexpected...if you're not expecting a thriller submitted by asangtani on June 27, 2023, 10:09am Lux finds herself on an abandoned island with a sordid past amongst the boyfriend she barely knows, two girls who are supposedly college friends, and a couple they stumbled upon. As the book progresses, the mysteries of the characters are slowly revealed, but in some ways it's slow enough that you find out there is a mystery to solve only shortly before the mystery is actually solved.