Review:
This alternates between four POVs, five if you count the occasional page from the POV of the person determined to punish one or more of the characters. Alissa is a pretty girl who hates it when people judge her by what they see on the surface. Her father is a firefighter who struggled with PTSD after one particular fire. Mint is the shy, withdrawn girl Alissa befriended. Although she hasn't told anyone, she thinks she has the ability to feel other people's pain. It makes it difficult for her to interact with others. Sky is another member of this friend group. Miles is one of Sky's coworkers, a handsome but secretly tortured young man who finds himself immediately drawn to Alissa.
The four of them hear about a new escape room that requires a minimum of four people, and they decide to give it a try. Unfortunately, what they don't realize is that the escape room is a trap arranged by someone with a massive grudge.
The best thing I can say about this is that the escape room itself sounded pretty awesome. I would've wanted to try it myself, although I'm sure I'd have sucked at it.
Granted, I'm nowhere near the target age for this, but I feel like even readers in the target age range might've had problems relating to these characters, the way they were written. Also, except for one moment when the villain got a bit more violent than I expected (one character ended up with a badly injured hand), there weren't really a lot of surprising moments. The villain came across as almost cartoonishly insane, rather than as someone who could carefully craft the perfect trap without anyone wondering about their mental state.
I got this as part of a three-pack of the author's books, so here's hoping the other two work better for me.
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