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The Bitter End

By: Alexa Donne
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Phoebe Strole, Brittany Pressley, Rachel L. Jacobs, Barrett Leddy, Nick Martineau, Bailey Carr, Briggon Snow
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When a winter storm traps eight teens in a remote ski cabin, they find themselves stranded with a killer—who may be one of their own. From the acclaimed author of The Ivies and Pretty Dead Queens comes a YA thriller that will make your blood run cold.

The trip of a lifetime might be the death of them all.

The students of LA’s elite Warner Prep can’t wait for their Senior Excursion—five days of Instagrammable adventure in one of the world’s most exclusive locations. This is not your average field trip.

Which is why eight students can’t believe their bad luck when they end up on a digital detox in an isolated Colorado ski chalet. Their epic trip is panning out to be an epic bore . . . until their classmates start dropping in a series of disturbing deaths. The message is clear: this trip is no accident.

And when a blizzard strikes, secrets are revealed, betrayals are exposed, and survival is at stake in a race to the bitter end.

"Will leave you gasping for air."—Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters

"Readers will be kept guessing until the end."—Kirkus Reviews

©2024 Alexa Donne (P)2024 Listening Library Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & Suspense Exciting Student

Critic reviews

"Wicked, acid-tipped, unparalleled fun. Donne is an evil genius." —Ashley Winstead, author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour

"[An] entertaining thriller that ticks all the right boxes." —Publishers Weekly

"A gripping, fantastically twisty mystery for fans of Karen M. McManus and Holly Jackson." —School Library Journal
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I’ve read and enjoyed other books by this author. This one didn’t match the quality of the others. It was hard to find a character to root for. I will read this author again but this book was not for me.

Not her best work

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The whole way through, I just knew who the killer was. My guess I don’t feel like was the obvious one. So I thought I had really pegged it. And when I found out who the real killer was, I was floored.

Great ‘whodunit,’ story!

I love when I’m wrong.

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Entertaining locked room mystery with a nice twisty ending. Great full cast narration. 4 stars.

Good locked room mystery

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This was so much fun. I read it in one sitting because I couldn’t put it down. It was quite spooky, had great ambiance, full of morbid thriller elements and fun twists and misdirects.

Lots of twists

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I loved some of the characters and the flash back to a few years ago.

Good twist

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There was only one character in this book that was an even remotely sympathetic character—all of the others seemed to be pretty terrible (or at least really annoying) people, so it was hard to root for any of them, which made the reading less enjoyable (and I was much less invested in the outcome). I don’t think the reveal of the murder worked very well, as it felt like a bait and switch. I much prefer mysteries in which it’s plausible that any one of the characters could be the killer and you go back and forth in your theories—but then the reveal always makes total sense, in hindsight. The very end of this book was also not very believable, and I would have much preferred to end with the POV of the character who was more sympathetic.

Unsympathetic Characters

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