oh i was shocked this book is shocking (positive).

this book is about bel price, a teenager who's agreed, along with her family, to appear in a documentary about her missing mother, who suddenly reappears after having been missing for sixteen years. i've read holly jacksons' work before and i quite enjoyed her a good girl' guide to murder series. i'm not a huge fan of thrillers but i really like jackson's works; they always have a good strong cast with good characterization and a twisty mystery that i'm always shocked at, and i'm glad to report that the reappearance of rachel price checks both those boxes. this plot in particular left me so surprised and i really had no clue where this book was heading. specifically the ending ten chapters were just shocking me left right and center.

bel is a really interesting mc because she's definitely a flawed and emotional character, and she has her own faults, but it's easy to understand where it comes from and why she's this way. i loved her relationship with carter, and i really liked carter; she proved a good foil to bel in terms of their opinions about rachel. the only nitpick i have with this book though is the faint hint of romance; i didn't really think it was necessary and honestly i could've done with or without it.

this book dragged a little for me before rachel's reappearance, but once she came back, this book was dialed up to ten and i was hooked. i would definitely recommend this to fans of jackson's previous works and fans of a good twisty thriller in general. 

thanks to netgalley and random house children's for the arc!