Thursday, January 11, 2024

Never Coming Home by Kate Williams - HIGH

Never Coming Home by Kate Williams, 304 pages. Delacorte (Random), 2022. $19

Language: R (60+  swears, 20+ ‘f’); Mature Content: PG-13 (body parts mentioned, some drinking); Violence: PG-13 (ten deaths by various means, a couple are described)

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

10 young social media influencers are the first guests for a remote luxury resort’s grand opening. And then they start dying.

Williams’s take on Agatha Christie’s classic novel is a refreshing remake with a very modern look. I doubt 90% of the teens who read this will have read the source material, so that won’t matter to them at all. The characters are default white.

Cindy Mitchell, Library Teacher, MLS


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