Five Total Strangers

320 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2020 by Sourcebooks, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-4926-5721-7
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

3 stars (6 reviews)

Mira needs to get home for the holidays. Badly. But when an incoming blizzard results in a canceled connecting flight, it looks like she might get stuck at the airport indefinitely.

And then Harper, Mira's glamorous seatmate from her initial flight, offers her a ride. Harper and her three friends can drop Mira off on their way home. But as they set off, Mira realizes fellow travelers are all total strangers. And every one of them is hiding something.

Soon, roads go from slippery to terrifying. People's belongings are mysteriously disappearing. Someone in the car is clearly lying, and may even be sabotaging the trip―but why? And can Mira make it home alive, or will this nightmare drive turn fatal?

3 editions

Good Premise that Fell Short on Execution

2 stars

This was a good premise that needed better characterization or a better twist to elevate it. I didn't feel like I got a very good sense of Mira or Josh's characters. The prose leaned on a handful of descriptive words in a way that became repetitive.

This was a very atmospheric book to listen to on a long drive, and I enjoyed that aspect.

What was the moral here, don't trust your instincts? Is that a good thing to teach young women?

Note on the audiobook edition: At first I felt the reader was overenunciating, but I got used to it quickly.

Review of 'Five Total Strangers' on 'Goodreads'

No rating

ABANDONING. I liked the idea that this was part of the global reading program where people around the world read the same book at the same time... but I just can't get into it. I thought it would be a fun mystery since I once shared a rental car in a blizzard with two strangers to get from CHI to DET and remember what a weird dynamic that creates. Alas, I didn't care about any of the characters and I could only handle so many hints of foreshadowing. "I felt like someone was looking at me..." – YOU ARE IN A MOVING CAR WITH FOUR PEOPLE, this seems pretty easy to verify or dismiss, no?

avatar for Monirah

rated it

4 stars
avatar for Hyzie

rated it

3 stars
avatar for CitizenCabe@books.theunseen.city

rated it

2 stars

Subjects

  • Children's fiction