Taís's Book Review: Survive the Night by Danielle Vega

Description:

Just back from rehab, Casey regrets letting her friends Shana, Julie, and Aya talk her into coming to Survive the Night, an all-night, underground rave in a New York City subway tunnel. Surrounded by frightening drugs and menacing strangers, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get any worse...

...until she comes across Julie’s mutilated body in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers. Casey thought she was just off with some guy—no one could hear her getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music. And by the time they get back to the party, everyone is gone.  Desperate for help, Casey and her friends find themselves running through the putrid subway tunnels, searching for a way out. But every manhole is sealed shut, and every noise echoes eerily in the dark, reminding them they’re not alone.  They’re being hunted. Trapped underground with someone—or something—out to get them, Casey can’t help but listen to Aya’s terrified refrain: “We’re all gonna die down here.”



Taís's Review:

Survive the Night is definitely a thrilling read seeing as it kept me not only on the edge of my seat, but deeply enthralled. Wondering, waiting, anticipating who was next to be killed (or in this case mutilated) in their long night ahead. One device the author quite fiendishly used too well and too often — so that your never quite settled — was suspense. Rather than being tossed neck deep into the blood and guts of the story I was taken on a slow burning acid trip where I never knew what I was going to read next and left me wondering, did that really just happen?    

The only minor issue that I had with this story was that I found some of the descriptions to have been recycled and repetitive. Even so, when compared to the overall story this book still makes for a killer read.

Verdict: ☕ ☕ ☕ ☕

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About the Author: 

Danielle Vega is the author of THE MERCILESS series, SURVIVE THE NIGHT, and BURNING (under pseudonym Danielle Rollins.) She lives in Brooklyn. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @vegarollins