Don’t Breathe a Word follows two students at a boarding school separated by sixty years but connected by one mystery. In the present, Eva is new to Hardwick and just wants to find friends but she gets more than she bargained for when she gets recruited secret society, The Fives, quickly starts to realize there’s something not quite right. In 1962, Connie is one of six students to volunteer for Hardwick’s nuclear fallout shelter experiment. Her and the other students quickly realize that this “test” is more than meets the eye and while six walked in, only five will walk out.
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The first time I read the synopsis for this book, I was so intrigued and needed to know what happened as soon as possible! While the mystery didn’t end up being super surprising, there was a factor to it that you find out halfway into the book that I did not see coming! This book kept me at the edge of my seat and I really enjoyed the story overall! I have a weird fascination with boarding school plots in books so I’m always interested in finding new stories about them. I definitely recommend this book if you like a good mystery, the boarding school trope, two oblivious people in love trope, or just a really intriguing storyline!