Monday, November 01, 2021

Nine top YA survival thrillers

Rektok Ross is the pen name of Liani Kotcher, a trial attorney turned award-winning young adult author and book blogger. An avid reader since childhood, Kotcher writes exactly the kind of books she loves to escape into herself: exciting thrillers with strong female leads, swoon-worthy love interests, and life-changing moments. She graduated from the University of Florida School of Journalism and obtained her juris doctorate at the University of Miami School of Law. Originally from South Florida, she currently splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles with her husband, stepkids, and her dogs.

Ross's debut YA survival thriller is Ski Weekend.

At CrimeReads she tagged nine favorite YA survival thrillers, including:
No Exit by Taylor Adams

Although this one may technically be categorized as New Adult/Adult, college kids feel close enough in age to fit under the YA umbrella and I would be remiss not to include one of the most intense, gripping road trip thrillers you will ever read. On the way home to see her sick mother, college student Darby Thorne is stranded by a blizzard at a Colorado highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, she finds herself forced to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers, which seems bad enough but only gets worse after she stumbles across a horrifying discovery. A kidnapped little girl is locked inside one of the parked cars! Full of shocking twists and turns, this book will have you on the edge of your seat, unable to put it down until you reach the shocking conclusion.
Read about another entry on the list.

No Exit is among Sophia LeFevre's six top isolated, snowy thrillers.

The Page 69 Test: No Exit.

--Marshal Zeringue