The Bitter End, Alexa Donne
The Bitter End, Alexa Donne
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The Bitter End

Author: Alexa Donne

Narrator: Kristen Sieh, Phoebe Strole, Brittany Pressley, Rachel L. Jacobs, Barrett Leddy, Nick Martineau, Bailey Carr, Briggon Snow

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2024


Synopsis

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

About The Author

Alexa Donne is the Edgar Award–nominated author of Pretty Dead Queens, The Ivies, and The Bitter End. By day she lives in Los Angeles and works in television marketing. The rest of the time she contemplates creative motives for murder and takes too many pictures of her cats.


Reviews

This is like a teenage slasher minus the slashing and insert all kinds of murder. A couple friends go on a school trip into the mountains with no cell phone access during severe weather with no way out. One of them starts killing people, but who is it? I suspected different people at different times......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer

Alexa Donne delivers another heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thriller in The Bitter End. Set against the chilling backdrop of a snow-covered Colorado ski chalet, eight high school seniors find themselves trapped in a deadly game of survival. What starts as a promising senior excursion quickly turn......more

Goodreads review by Tonya

This YA thriller delivers everything you want in a thriller. It’s chilling, macabre, and at times heart-stopping. I enjoyed this modern twist of the classic And Then There Were None. Classmates start to drop like flies as everyone becomes a suspect. I enjoyed how the cold wintery isolation trope cle......more

4.5 stars rounded up The Bitter End is a twisty thriller following a privileged group of high school seniors on a digital detox ski trip who get snowed in with a murderer. And the killer just might be one of them... There's lots of bad behavior, secrets from the past, backstabbing, and unreliable nar......more


Quotes

"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

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

"[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

"Donne has done a dandy job of serving up an irresistible mystery with a devious plot that offers the requisite red herrings." —Booklist