Title: 10 Hours to Go
Author: Keely Parrack
Publication: February 6, 2024
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Genre: Teens, YA Fiction
Pages: 288
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SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads)
Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even. Lily needs a ride―a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they’re barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha’s also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn’t forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It’s getting tense in the car, and it’s not just about the past. There’s smoke in the air, and with the wildfires nearby, staying on the road is becoming riskier by the hour. When Natasha and Elke decide to take a detour, Lily hopes it’ll get them out of danger. She has no idea, though, what her former friends have planned for her. But as night comes, the plans change again when it becomes all too clear that leaving the main road was a mistake. Now the three of them are trapped in the woods under a burning sky, with no easy way out. To survive, Lily must depend on Elke and Natasha―but after all that’s happened, can she trust them with her life?
Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even. Lily needs a ride―a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they’re barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha’s also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn’t forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It’s getting tense in the car, and it’s not just about the past. There’s smoke in the air, and with the wildfires nearby, staying on the road is becoming riskier by the hour. When Natasha and Elke decide to take a detour, Lily hopes it’ll get them out of danger. She has no idea, though, what her former friends have planned for her. But as night comes, the plans change again when it becomes all too clear that leaving the main road was a mistake. Now the three of them are trapped in the woods under a burning sky, with no easy way out. To survive, Lily must depend on Elke and Natasha―but after all that’s happened, can she trust them with her life?
REVIEW:
**A Copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
This story was insane! I had no idea what to expect when starting this and it was different from what I was thinking it was going to be. The story follows Lily as she takes a ride with a former friends to get away from a fire from school and ends up in danger, but not only from a fire.
I think Parrack did a great job writing the natural disaster portion of this story. The details about how the fire was moving and how quickly it could change are extremely accurate and this really added to the story. There is nothing worse than something unbelievable ruining a storyline. Lily’s character was instantly likable and I was constantly rooting for her along the way. The way Parrack made me feel an intense level of anger towards the other girls from the start was unparallel to what I have felt before. The small jabs and petty behavior was so typical of a mean girl and I felt my blood boiling. I love it when an author can make me feel emotions that intense. That feeling followed me through the story as well as being frightened for them, concerned, elated, and more. This story is jam-packed with emotions and Parrack was pulling them out of me one after another.
If you love a high-intensity, thrilling, suspenseful YA Novel, this story is for you. I love Keely Parrack and plan to read much more from them shortly! Go grab yourself a copy now!
