“Our stuff isn’t going missing – someone is stealing it. And there are exactly four people who could be responsible. I take a sharp breath and look at my fellow travelers with new wariness. Someone in this car is lying.”– 2/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: missing items, snow storms, cancelled layovers, college kids, creepy letters, yellow baseball caps and disaster after disaster.

A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster.

When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with a group of friendly college kids who were on her initial flight.

As the drive progresses and weather conditions become more treacherous, Mira realizes that the four other passengers she’s stuck in the car with don’t actually know one another.

Soon, they’re not just dealing with heavy snowfall and ice-slick roads, but the fact that somebody will stop at nothing to ensure their trip ends in a deadly disaster.

My thoughts on this book are pretty simple: this was just plain boring and uninteresting. I already dislike books with road trips as it is, but even looking over that, there wasn’t much I liked about this book. The mystery was boring and underwhelming, the characters were bland – Mira was an incredibly weak and unmemorable main character -, and the story was very slow paced and it felt like nothing interesting happened.

The truth is that I felt like a lot of things were lacking: a plot, character depth and development, and engagement. Not only that, but there were also a lot of loose ends that I wish were explained in the book, like for example the yellow baseball guy situation, or how the responsible person could even possibly plan what happened – if you read it, you know what I’m talking about… there’s a lot of coincidences that make zero sense.

I will say I liked the atmosphere of the book. I liked the images the author tried to create throughout the book of the blizzard and snow. The book is placed around Christmas, but it’s not a strongly themed holiday book. Still, if you’re interested in the book, I would recommend you to pick up the book in the wintertime! Grab a blanket and a hot beverage and you’ll have the perfect set.

I have to be completely honest: I think you should find yourself a better thriller to spend your time on… but that’s just my opinion. Proceed at your own risk!

xoxo,