Seasick

I really liked this book but it was a bit hard to follow as the two main characters had a very similar name. The story has great plot an dis perfect for YA readers or adults. The book is a pretty normal sized read but I loved how it had small chapters. Overall, the book is really good and I highly reccomend.

i used to be a huge fan of PC Cast and Kristin Cast’s series HON. I read the first nine books and really enjoyed them. This of course is much different than a school of vampires, but we still have a little bit of the bloodthirsty teens in this one.Seasick is about elite high school students who are taking a trip on a yacht to Bermuda. However one of the students is a gossip columnist and the rest of the students have a ton of secrets that she’s either revealed or strongly hinted at. This eventually leads to her murder and slowly the other students start getting murdered as well.The pacing of the book was relatively fast. However i found a hard time connecting with the characters and keeping them all straight. The guys especially seemed kind of generic and were very easy to get confused. At one point a guy and girl are found murdered and I really struggled to remember who they were and what their death would mean.i think part of the issue is that I’m just not a big fan of “super elite” thrillers anymore and especially super elite high school thrillers.Overall, this wasn’t bad, but it’s not something i think I’ll likely remember for long.

Grotesque description of murder and crude sexual acts.

The synopsis did the plot a little bit of a disservice – it invalidated the group entertaining the possibility that the killer could be a stowaway or crew member. It had to be one of them. That being said, it was still a bloody ride to figure out who it was. The isolation of the inductees being on board a yacht without adult supervision (mostly), should have been a dream come true and instead, it turned into a nightmare ride. All the inductees have secrets – even Everly; the author of the toxic gossip blog, who loves nothing more than finding and spilling them for all to read online.The similarity of the main character names had me going back to reread often – which caused the book’s spell to be broken, even if temporarily. I enjoyed the story from both girl’s perspectives and their individual quirks. Most of the other characters are the typical entitled and snotty kids who encourage you to dislike them. The only two that got a pass were (eventually) Gabe and Brett because he was at least the comedic relief.It was awesome to read something new (with a different co-author) from Kristin Cast. This is my first book from her since enjoying the House of Night series after high school. I enjoyed the locked door terror of being isolated on a luxury yacht with a murderer. I stayed up entirely too late finishing this one because I HAD to know the conclusion. I recommend Seasick to readers who love young adult, fast-paced (total timeline on board the boat is around 24 hours), locked door (yacht in this case), murder mystery books. A big thank you to TBR & Beyond Tours, Delacorte Press, Kristin Cast & Pintip Dunn for the opportunity to join this tour and read this bloody adrenaline ride of a book.

I’ve read a lot of high stakes YA thrillers this summer, and this was the one that kept my interest the best. Although maybe that’s because all of the ones I read weren’t that good.The pacing of the plot was good overall, keeping things interesting without slowing things down too much, even as backstories are revealed. The entries from the gossip website add intrigue, and there’s enough action to keep my interest.However, some of the murders required a lot of suspension of disbelief, and the way the characters jump into a relationship as soon as a pretty hurtful situation was cleared up is a little unrealistic.My biggest problem with it is the lack of realistic responses to what’s going on. All of these people are getting murdered left and right, and yet the main characters are pretty chill about it and trying to sort out their love lives. There are a few moments where the characters panic, but overall nobody seems to care about what’s happening. They don’t even seem that freaked out by the fact that if more people keep dying, they might be the next to go. Even when the killer is revealed, the main characters basically go, “huh, interesting,” and get to business of stopping them instead of having a realistic, emotional response to the betrayal and strong emotions they should experience. Especially at the end, the remaining characters are seemingly just fine, having a great time and not at all emotionally traumatized by the things they saw and had to survive. I get that characters can’t cry and scream the entire time because things have to happen, but some reaction is important! These characters must have been on some medication that made them numb to the entire world around them.The killer’s motivations don’t completely make sense either, and I’m not sure how some of what they did was even possible. I didn’t understand why any character was doing anything, and the reason the best friends stopped being friends was ridiculous.Seasick is melodramatic and unnecessarily angsty, and the number of murders and the characters border on absurd. But I still have to admit that I thought it was a quick, fun read when I wasn’t thinking about it. Seasick has a lot of problems, but if you’re looking for a campy YA thriller, this could be a good choice.