Last Girl Standing

by Lisa Jackson

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:*New York Times* bestselling Sisters of Suspense join forces for a gripping standalone novel about a clique of popular girls whose high school friendship is marked by a tragedy that continues to haunt them decades later. Jackson and Bush take the reader's hand and twist them through this shocking tale of suspense. First they were five. Then they were four. Whose turn will it be next? At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora . . . ABCD & Z. They could have accepted their classmate, Emmy, as "E", but with her bookish disposition and her embarrassing status of scholarship student to boot, they rejected her and chose wealthy Zora instead. At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year, Lance Ventura, the hottest guy in school, falls down an embankment toward the river and is barely rescued in time to save his life. One of the Five Firsts, Carman, rushes to save him, but isn't so lucky. Her sudden death causes a community to mourn and rumors of foul play to swirl, but the tragedy is ruled an accident. Fast forward ten years and the classmates all meet again at the high school reunion. Some of them have had good fortune in their lives. Others, not so much. PRAISE FOR LISA JACKSON AND NANCY BUSH "Superb . . . a masterpiece of romantic suspense." *�??Publishers Weekly* (starred review) on Something Wicked "A chilling thriller with enough false leads to keep readers enthralled to the finish." ***�??Library Journal on One Last Breath… (more)***

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3.5 stars. Well written, interesting concept, but overall fell a little flat for me. I had a good time sailing through most of this book, but at times it felt like it was dragging with trying to keep up with the multiple (not very like-able) characters. The beginning was written from the point of view of high schoolers, but didn't sound anything like 18 years olds (in my opinion), and moved on to the same characters in their early 30s, then sounding like they were the exact same people as when they were 18 years old. I also had an issue with the ending; it felt rushed and a little lame.

Overall, I had a fun time reading the bulk of this book. It lost me with the ways the characters were written as well as the ending, but I still enjoyed the pace and writing the authors created. (

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense join forces for a gripping standalone novel about a clique of popular girls whose high school friendship is marked by a tragedy that continues to haunt them decades later. Jackson and Bush take the reader's hand and twist them through this shocking tale of suspense.
First they were five. Then they were four.
Whose turn will it be next?
At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora . . . ABCD & Z. They could have accepted their classmate, Emmy, as "E", but with her bookish disposition and her embarrassing status of scholarship student to boot, they rejected her and chose wealthy Zora instead.
At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year, Lance Ventura, the hottest guy in school, falls down an embankment toward the river and is barely rescued in time to save his life. One of the Five Firsts, Carman, rushes to save him, but isn't so lucky. Her sudden death causes a community to mourn and rumors of foul play to swirl, but the tragedy is ruled an accident.
Fast forward ten years and the classmates all meet again at the high school reunion. Some of them have had good fortune in their lives. Others, not so much.

PRAISE FOR LISA JACKSON AND NANCY BUSH

"Superb . . . a masterpiece of romantic suspense."
�??Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Something Wicked

"A chilling thriller with enough false leads to keep readers enthralled to the finish."
�??Library Journal on One Last Breath

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