One by One – Book Review

One by one, they will get what they deserve…

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.

She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven.

Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought.

Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost.

And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them?

But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear:

Only one of them will return home alive.

Claire and Noah are going on a vacation with two other couples, Jack and Michelle, and Lindsey and her boyfriend Warner. Claire was badly in need for the vacation, as she wanted to take a break from her work and raising kids as well as a chance to repair her marriage with Noah. On the way to the inn, the minivan stops in the middle of nowhere by the woods and the six friends decide to go to the inn through walking. However, soon, the walking through the woods turn into a nightmare as one by one, gets killed or disappeared. In the end, only one of them will survive.

The story is told in two POVs–Claire and an anonymous character, whose identity is revealed at the end (and a completely unexpected revelation mind you). The story did give an air of eerie and creepy feeling as the group is lost deep in the woods, and is surviving through almost filtered water and wild plant. The story is also intense as it will put the reader on the edge–with a bit of a supernatural element in it. The book is fast-paced (just like all her books), unputdownable and a page turner. The ending part of the story is where things turned out to be interesting, particularly the revelation of the anonymous character. Also reading about Anonymous character kind of gave chills when reading the story.

I have made an oath to read all of Freida McFadden’s books and this is the sixth or seventh book I have read from her. This wasn’t her best but still gave the reader a fast paced thriller packed with unexpected twists. Overall worth four stars.