After Bea's shocking death 9 years ago, it's the first time Luna is reuniting with her teenage friends in a remote estate. But as a snowstorm closes in, their friendships are tested by accidents, injuries, hidden secrets, and startling revelations.

EIGHT is a slow-burning locked-room mystery thriller with a large cast. The first half of the book is dedicated to character-building, while the last 1/3 is where most of the actions happen. I appreciate the unique lens of the "unreliable narrator" through Luna's eyes, and the exploration between Luna and Bea's "friendship" is profoundly fascinating. I wish these two elements were given more attention, and I wasn't as interested in the other characters' backstories.

I also find the pacing of EIGHT to be suboptimal, where the ending is at once overly dramatic, extremely chaotic, and too neatly tied up, almost like it was written by another person