Title: 13 Minutes
Series: -
Author: Sarah Pinborough
Description: They say you should keep you friends close and your
enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart.
Natasha doesn’t remember how she ended up in the icy water that night, but
she does know this: it wasn’t an accident, and she wasn’t suicidal. Her two
closest friends are acting strangely, and Natasha turns to Becca, the best
friend she dumped years before when she got popular, to help her figure out
what happened. Natasha is sure her friends love her, but does that mean they
didn’t try to kill her?
Review: A hiker finds 16-year-old Natasha dead in a river one morning. When he
goes to look for his phone he thinks he sees her hand moving and decides to
pull her out of the water. She has been dead for 13 minutes but she can’t
remember anything. When she wakes up, she is in the hospital, having no memory
of what happened to her. Natasha starts to keep a diary, to try to get her
memory back. Her best friends Jenny and Hayley visit her regularly, but are
behaving strangely as if they know more about what happened to Natasha.
After Becca hears the news of what happened to Natasha, she visits her
in the hospital too. She and Natasha used to be best friends, before she dumped
Becca and become the most popular girl in school. But she wants to help Natasha
solve the mystery.
I loved the premise and the book has plenty of suspense. I appreciated
this in the book. But eventually the story starts to drag a bit and becomes
repetitive. There aren’t a lot of likeable characters in the story either,
which makes it hard to identify with any of them, or relate to them. And however
everyone is raving about the plot twist at the end, I wasn’t as enthusiastic.
It’s by no means a bad book, because I did enjoy big parts of the story. But
the negatives I have for “13 Minutes” are pretty important aspects for whether
I love or hate a book.
I would still recommend this book to whoever loves a YA thriller,
because most fans of this genre really love “13 Minutes”. I just wasn’t as
enthusiastic about it as most.
Rating: 2,5/ 5
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