RECKLESS GIRLS by Rachel Hawkins
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, January 4th 2022
- Genre: Thriller
- Format: eARC
- Page Count: 320 pages
- My Rating: ★★★ (3/5)
Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.
MCs : cishet white woman (*4)+ cishet white man (*2) POV : single 1st-person (present) + multiple 3rd-person (past) location: Hawai‘i, USA + Meroe Island (fictional) indie? : no
I read Hawkins’ The Wife Upstairs (my review) this time last year and couldn’t put it down. With Reckless Girls, I had a similar experience of wanting to keep reading to find out what’s going on, but unfortunately, the final reveal also happened to be a huge, unexplained plot hole that just made the whole build-up fell flat.
Lux (25) has been stuck in life after her mother passed away from cancer. When she followed her boyfriend Nico (26) to Hawaii, she was hoping for some travel adventures but ended up working at hotels instead. Then Brittany (22?) and Amma (22?) showed up, wanting to hire Nico to take them to Meroe Island, a secluded atoll famous for cannibalism legends in WWII. Soon, Lux finds herself heading for the island with Nico, Brittany, and Amma, but they aren’t the only one there. Rich boy Jake (30) and his girlfriend Eliza (30) are also on the island. As the days go by, terrible things start happening, and Lux begins to see that this was not a friendly trip after all.