Headed to a private island with rich, generation long families? This could be the book for you. Or for the rest of us, this could be a book to escape to some waterfront mansion, island drama.
Do you ever really know the people you love?
For the Gold sisters and Silver brothers, life has been idyllic, growing up in side-by-side waterfront mansions in a town where doors are never locked and the police do little more than issue speeding tickets. The Golds and Silvers have known each other their entire lives, as neighbors, as friends, as family.
But one carefree summer takes a dark turn when a beach party ends in tragedy and their perfect world cracks wide open. Suddenly, the bonds that tie these families together are strained by suspicion and fear. Painful secrets surface, revealing the fragile truths they’ve all been hiding.
Lucy, the oldest Gold girl, harbors a crushing secret from her boyfriend, one of the Silver boys. Millie, the middle sister, quietly yearns for the one person she can’t have. And the youngest, Frankie, uncovers something that could blow their island apart. (Goodreads blurb)
A very classic young adult thriller.
It was fast paced with an awesome opening that hooked me. Although it is riddled with little issues that annoyed me in the end. And speaking of endings, the ending left me with “meh” feelings.
The characters were all pretty flat. There was a large cast of characters but they all felt the same. Sometimes the alternating POVs were dizzying or ‘too much’. All the girls especially felt the same age yet they should have been more spread out in experiences and thoughts.
What really irked me was the way they were obviously well to do but we’re confused that they were. It seemed like a very sheltered existence, and if that’s the author was trying to go for she did a good job. It felt like that wasn’t the vibe though.
And like most reviewers, the ending, and “big reveal” that we were all waiting for was random and not exciting.
Stats: 304 pages – Expected publication June 2, 2026
**Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for a copy of the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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