I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DIG TWO GRAVES by Gretchen McNeil Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
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Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil Published by Disney-Hyperion on April 26, 2022
Genres: YA Thriller
Pages: 352
Source: the publisher
Format: ARC
My Rating:
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Blurb:
One of Us is Lying meets Hitchcock in this novel from celebrated author of the #MurderTrending series, Gretchen McNeil.
I did my part, BFF. Now it’s your turn.
Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn’t really fit in anywhere. When Neve is betrayed by her best friend, Yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl’s empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. So when she grabs the attention of the beautiful, charismatic Diane, she falls right under her spell, and may accidentally promise to murder Diane’s predatory step-brother, Javier, in exchange for Diane murdering Yasmin. But that was just a joke…right?
Wrong. When Yasmin turns up dead, Diane comes calling, attempting to blackmail Neve into murdering Javier. Stalling for time, Neve pretends to go along with Diane’s plan until she can find a way out that doesn’t involve homicide. But as she gets to know Javier – and falls for him – she realizes that everything Diane told her is a lie. Even worse, she discovers that Yasmin probably wasn’t Diane’s first victim. And unless Neve can stop her, she won’t be the last.
In this twisted game of cat and mouse, the reader never quite knows who’s telling the truth, who’s playing games, and who is going to end up dead.
My Review
I am a huge fan of Gretchen McNeil. I feel like she is an often overlooked or not as well-known author as she should be because all of her books have blown me away! So I was really excited for this next one from her, and I was not let down at all! There were twists and turns all the way through, leaving me wondering exactly who we could trust and who was in on it, and who might actually be help for Neve.
While Neve likened the “deal” with Diane to the movie Strangers on a Train, in my head, from growing up in the 80s, I likened it to the movie, Throw Momma From the Train, which I’m sure also came from that movie. While this wasn’t humorous like the movie I was thinking of it had the same basic idea. But being a YA book, this was laced with all the different things teens deal with, bullying, wanting to be popular, but also wanting to be your own person.
It had great representation of a teen questioning her own sexuality and attraction to boys or girls. And maybe discovering it could be both that she was attracted to. The final reveal was really good, had like I mentioned a twist or two I didn’t expect. In fact this story also reminded me a bit of some of the twists in the movie Scream, with her dad getting blamed or set up to take the fall.
Another good read from McNeil that I will be sharing with my high school students.
About the Author
Gretchen McNeil is the author of #MurderTrending, #MurderFunding, #NoEscape, I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Possess, 3:59, Relic, and Ten which was adapted as the Lifetime original movie Ten: Murder Island in 2017, as well as Get Even and Get Dirty, adapted as the series “Get Even” which is currently streaming worldwide on BBC iPlayer and Netflix.
You can find her online at www.GretchenMcNeil.com,
on Instagram @Gretchen_McNeil,
and on Twitter @GretchenMcNeil.
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Giveaway
- 1 winner will receive a finished copy of DIG TWO GRAVES, US Only.
Tour Schedule
Week One:
| 5/1/2022 | a GREAT read | Review/IG Post |
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| 5/6/2022 | The Clever Reader | Review/IG Post |
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| 5/8/2022 | Lifestyle of Me | Review |
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| 5/10/2022 | BookHounds YA | Review/IG Post |
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| 5/22/2022 | Nonbinary Knight Reads | Review/IG Post/TikTok Post |
| 5/23/2022 | onemoreexclamation | Review/IG Post |
| 5/24/2022 | Book-Keeping | Review/IG Post |
| 5/25/2022 | Pages_and_Procrastinaton | Review/IG Post |
| 5/26/2022 | A Court of Coffee and Books | Review/IG Post |
| 5/27/2022 | The Momma Spot | Review/IG Post |
| 5/28/2022 | onemused | IG Review |
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| 5/29/2022 | Nerdophiles | Review |
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| 5/31/2022 | @jypsylynn | Review/IG Post |
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I’ve read a couple books by Gretchen and loved them. This is definitely on my wish list. I immediately thought of Strangers on a Train which is a movie I love.
Lauren
She’s one of my favorite authors, hope you get a chance to read this soon!
This sounds fantastic! It has been a while since I have picked up a thriller and this one has me intrigued, I think that I have read one of the author’s other books and really enjoyed it as well. I will have to add it to my list! 🙂
Hope you get your hands on it soon!
I really like her books too. This sounds like fun!
It was a thriller and fun to read!
I have not read anything by Gretchen McNeil and it sounds like i”m missing out.
Ooh, you’re missing out, you need to give her books a try!
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