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Five Total Strangers (2020, Sourcebooks, Incorporated) 2 stars

Mira needs to get home for the holidays. Badly. But when an incoming blizzard results …

Good Premise that Fell Short on Execution

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This was a good premise that needed better characterization or a better twist to elevate it. I didn't feel like I got a very good sense of Mira or Josh's characters. The prose leaned on a handful of descriptive words in a way that became repetitive.

This was a very atmospheric book to listen to on a long drive, and I enjoyed that aspect.

What was the moral here, don't trust your instincts? Is that a good thing to teach young women?

Note on the audiobook edition: At first I felt the reader was overenunciating, but I got used to it quickly.