Title: Catch Your Death
Author: Ravena Guron
Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Usborne
Genre: Thrillers, YA Fiction
Pages: 439
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SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads)
Trapped in a mansion with a murderer and a family of liars – how would you survive?
A mind-blowing thriller from the author of THIS BOOK KILLS, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.
When three girls are stranded at the grand Bramble Estate in the middle of a snowstorm, they stumble into a murder plot. Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Vanforte in the middle of a family dinner – which means Devi, Lizzie and Jayne are trapped in the house with a killer and a mystery to solve. With knives under floorboards, vanishing guns and secret passages in the walls, no one is safe and everyone is a suspect. But in a house of liars and corruption, will the girls save themselves…or learn to fit in?
REVIEW:
**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
Ravena Guron has been on my radar for a few years and her books are always exciting and intense and I knew I wanted to read Catch Your Death as soon as I heard about it. What i wasn’t expecting was a modern day Clue! Guron has written a story where you are constantly trying to figure out who did, how, and where… and just as you think you know, another twist is thrown at you.
The story follows a few girls as they get stranded at a mansion where a strange, very rich and well-known family lives and where one comes up dead. Right away, I really liked Lizzie as she was soft spoken and seemed so innocent. Devi and Jayne were nice as well, but seemed to be a bit more thicker-skinned. Guron did a great job of instantly writing the characters in ways where I felt strong feelings towards them one way or another from the first interation. It gave a very realistic “first impression” feeling. This included members of the family, which I may add almost all of them were terrible to me. She also spun a lot of questions by throwing a lot of possibilities at us, from the missing items to secret passages and questionable people with questionable choices and behaviors. I honestly had no idea who it was as I was reading.
The twist about 3/4 of the way through the book really threw me. I was shook! My only issue was that it almost made it less believable because the odds in this century someone could get away with such a thing is so small. I still found it really intriguing and it honestly made this book a stand-out, but that little inkling that they would never get away with it made me unable to give it the full five stars. You know the phrase “two can keep a secret if one of them is dead”? That’s where I landed.
Even with that said, Guron’s Catch Your Death was twisty, shocking, and page-turning from start to finish. I was thoroughly bamboozled at the end of the book and wish I could read it again for the first time and feel that surprise again. If you love really good twisty thrillers, then pick up Catch Your Death now!
