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Kayla heeft totaal geen zin in zomerkamp, maar als ze op eerste dag de populaire Lainie ontmoet, verandert alles. De meiden worden onafscheidelijk en Kayla’s zomer kan niet meer stuk.
Ook niet als ze Lainie steeds vaker op leugentjes betrapt. En zelfs niet als Kayla ziet hoe haar vriendin in de ban raakt van Jackson. Hun geheimen zijn veilig bij elkaar, toch? Want beste vriendinnen verraden elkaar niet, zelfs niet als er een moord wordt gepleegd…
Kayla heeft totaal geen zin in zomerkamp, maar als ze op eerste dag de populaire Lainie ontmoet, verandert alles. De meiden worden onafscheidelijk en Kayla’s zomer kan niet meer stuk.
Ook niet als ze Lainie steeds vaker op leugentjes betrapt. En zelfs niet als Kayla ziet hoe haar vriendin in de ban raakt van Jackson. Hun geheimen zijn veilig bij elkaar, toch? Want beste vriendinnen verraden elkaar niet, zelfs niet als er een moord wordt gepleegd…
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 8, 2020
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Anica Mrose Rissi
20 books242 followersWriter, storyteller, editrix. Author of picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and YA. Fan of dogs and ice cream. Offers energetic, interactive presentations and writing workshops for students of all ages at libraries, festivals, and schools.
Anica Mrose Rissi grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, where she read a lot of books and loved a lot of pets. She now tells and collects stories, makes up songs on her violin, and eats cheese with her friends in central New Jersey, where she lives with her dog, Sweet Potato. As a former book editor turned writer and storyteller, Anica has spoken with kids and adults across the country about all pieces of the writing process. Her essays have been published by The Writer magazine and the New York Times, and she plays fiddle in and writes lyrics for the band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves. Anica posts about bookish things at @anicarissi on Instagram.
Anica teaches in the Writing for Children & Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is available for in-person and virtual writing workshops and presentations with groups of all sizes and ages. Find out more at http://anicarissi.com.
Author photograph (c) Kim Indresano
Anica Mrose Rissi grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, where she read a lot of books and loved a lot of pets. She now tells and collects stories, makes up songs on her violin, and eats cheese with her friends in central New Jersey, where she lives with her dog, Sweet Potato. As a former book editor turned writer and storyteller, Anica has spoken with kids and adults across the country about all pieces of the writing process. Her essays have been published by The Writer magazine and the New York Times, and she plays fiddle in and writes lyrics for the band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves. Anica posts about bookish things at @anicarissi on Instagram.
Anica teaches in the Writing for Children & Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is available for in-person and virtual writing workshops and presentations with groups of all sizes and ages. Find out more at http://anicarissi.com.
Author photograph (c) Kim Indresano
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August 20, 2020
3.5 STARS rounded to 4
Perhaps not the most original of YA thrillers, but a highly enjoyable read nonetheless. Unreliable narrators have become all the rage over the past decade, and their use in suspense novels ranges from "Hah! This is whodunnit!" to "This person is hiding secrets and has manipulated the narrative to their own benefit." I won't tell you which one this book falls under, but I will say that I enjoyed being back at summer camp and reliving the nostalgia of some of the milder thematic elements included here. Things like navigating the power balance in female friendship, not murder. I look forward to more from Anica Mrose Rissi!
*Many thanks to the publisher for providing my review copy.
Perhaps not the most original of YA thrillers, but a highly enjoyable read nonetheless. Unreliable narrators have become all the rage over the past decade, and their use in suspense novels ranges from "Hah! This is whodunnit!" to "This person is hiding secrets and has manipulated the narrative to their own benefit." I won't tell you which one this book falls under, but I will say that I enjoyed being back at summer camp and reliving the nostalgia of some of the milder thematic elements included here. Things like navigating the power balance in female friendship, not murder. I look forward to more from Anica Mrose Rissi!
*Many thanks to the publisher for providing my review copy.
September 9, 2020
Review coming soon.
September 8, 2020
Hi! I wrote this book and had a lot of fun doing it. When I started the first draft, I knew only a few things about it. I knew the book would involve a brief but life-changing friendship—a deep, intense bond formed across a single summer. (Complex and essential friendships are my jam; I will write about them forever.) I knew the story of that friendship, and the secrets held within it, would be told in the form of letters written by one friend to the other after their summer was over. I knew the other friend would not write back. I knew the letters would be interspersed with news clips, text messages, a court transcript, and social media posts to reveal other secrets and perspectives. (The sections where other campers and counselors talk about Lainie, Kayla, and what happened that summer were my favorite sections to write.)
Other than that, I knew nothing—not what the secrets would be, or why the letters would go unanswered. Not who these friends were, or what had come between them. Those things I had to learn as I wrote, letting the characters—and my questions—lead the way. Questions of how our friendships shape who we are. Of how well you can really know someone else, or even know yourself. Of how the lies a person tells might reveal their deepest truths.
Here's a post I wrote for Mindy McGinnis's Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire blog called "Anica Mrose Rissi on Intense Friendships—and Lies—in Fiction" that goes into some of what inspired it.
Thanks for reading!
Other than that, I knew nothing—not what the secrets would be, or why the letters would go unanswered. Not who these friends were, or what had come between them. Those things I had to learn as I wrote, letting the characters—and my questions—lead the way. Questions of how our friendships shape who we are. Of how well you can really know someone else, or even know yourself. Of how the lies a person tells might reveal their deepest truths.
Here's a post I wrote for Mindy McGinnis's Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire blog called "Anica Mrose Rissi on Intense Friendships—and Lies—in Fiction" that goes into some of what inspired it.
Thanks for reading!
December 6, 2021
“Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried.”
I love a story set at a summer camp. It's one of my favorite things ever.
The writing and the story itself were really captivating. At first, but the real twist was predictable after a certain point.
I love a story set at a summer camp. It's one of my favorite things ever.
The writing and the story itself were really captivating. At first, but the real twist was predictable after a certain point.
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September 28, 2020Dnf 44% - do not care
September 29, 2020
2.5 stars for a predictable YA drama.
All the core ingredients for a YA: summer camp, a teen death, toxic friendships, best-friends-forever notions, the boyfriend drama, some obsessions and loads of secrets.
Told through a series of diary-like entities told by Kayla this is a single character POV. The central plot revolves around Lainie and Kayla’s friendship and the secrets being kept.
Although this is compared to ‘One of Us is Lying’ and ‘We Were Liars’ it does not come close in my view. Predictable, stereotypical and unnecessarily bitchy. YA readers may enjoy it a little more but I won’t be recommending it to any teenagers I know.
All the core ingredients for a YA: summer camp, a teen death, toxic friendships, best-friends-forever notions, the boyfriend drama, some obsessions and loads of secrets.
Told through a series of diary-like entities told by Kayla this is a single character POV. The central plot revolves around Lainie and Kayla’s friendship and the secrets being kept.
Although this is compared to ‘One of Us is Lying’ and ‘We Were Liars’ it does not come close in my view. Predictable, stereotypical and unnecessarily bitchy. YA readers may enjoy it a little more but I won’t be recommending it to any teenagers I know.
October 15, 2025
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— ˖ book 4 out of 30
predictable but still done sooo well. the girls were everything :( my favorite sapphic books are always mystery ones and the letter format was soo good and fun!!! i wish the sapphic stuff was more prominent but i knew they wouldn’t admit they were more than friends
— ˖ book 4 out of 30
predictable but still done sooo well. the girls were everything :( my favorite sapphic books are always mystery ones and the letter format was soo good and fun!!! i wish the sapphic stuff was more prominent but i knew they wouldn’t admit they were more than friends
March 19, 2023
1.5 🌟 honestly this entire book was predictable and the writing was kind of mediocre. that being said i’m only giving this an extra half a star because i enjoyed the way the book was written in the form of letters and documents of interviews from camp staff and attendees. everything else was just not that great in my opinion.
March 9, 2023
Pretty good and an easy listen, but very melodramatic and predictable.
I thought the format was unique, Kayla writing to Lainey for most of the book, with snippets in between of news clippings and gossip. That always makes it juicy.
The main narrator is one of my favorites so of course that was good.
I thought the format was unique, Kayla writing to Lainey for most of the book, with snippets in between of news clippings and gossip. That always makes it juicy.
The main narrator is one of my favorites so of course that was good.
September 17, 2020
Nobody knows but you is a short YA Mystery/Thriller following Kayla, a teenager after her best-friend Lainie murdered the boy she was with during camp. The two girls were close and Lainie was Kayla's only friend. So when a boy tries to come between them, she's not very happy about it but Lainie is obsessed with him and so she lets it go no matter how off he seem to be or how he seem less interested in Lainie than she is with him. Oh and also, he does have a girlfriend outside of camp and he's cheating on her with Lainie but not just her either. Yeah... that's pretty shitty to do and no, it's not a spoiler since you're told at the beginning.
Nobody knows but you was quick and entertaining. I was curious to see what the secrets mentioned in the synopsis were and I'm glad I got to read this book. This wasn't the most original story but if you're looking for a YA mystery happening around events in summer camp, you might like this one.
(Thank you for letting me read and review an ARC via Edelweiss)
Nobody knows but you was quick and entertaining. I was curious to see what the secrets mentioned in the synopsis were and I'm glad I got to read this book. This wasn't the most original story but if you're looking for a YA mystery happening around events in summer camp, you might like this one.
(Thank you for letting me read and review an ARC via Edelweiss)
July 23, 2021
"Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried."
I really liked this, a welcome change from the mystery/thrillers I've read lately.
"It got all turned around."
Kayla and Lainie become best friends at summer camp and they tell a tall tale or two. Lainie embellishes stories from her life, because no one at camp knows who you are at home, and she brings Kayla in on the jokes. Their stories drive the narrative. With two liars, sorry story tellers, entangled in a tragic accident at the end of summer, who can we believe?
"A good story can get a listener so attached she'll believe it regardless of truth. You taught me that."
Kayla's letters to Lainie make for a second person point of view narrative. I will always love a story told to You. Lainie will never read the letters, but Kayla pours out her heart about their friendship and her grief at its loss.
"With something like love, friendship or memories, those aren't tangible, provable things. They exist in our heads and hearts and perceptions there are everything."
Kayla waxes lyrical about truth, lies, and the slippery space between them, that place where lying for a friend is the right thing to do, or is it?
"Some truths are misleading. Some sit side by side with true lies and many are subjective."
There are three reveals throughout the story. One happened early on, which I guessed because the same twist was in another book I read recently. It felt like a cheap trick in that book. It was done so much better here. I worked out the main reveal early on, but I didn't mind because Kayla's philosophical musings on what makes a lie had me entralled. As Lainie said, it makes for a better story that way.
"But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once."
Kayla's letters are interspersed with news reports, court documents, and rumours on social media from campers in the time leading up to and during the trial. Rumours the campers absolutely know to be true because
"Every rumour seemed official yet completely false."
Kayla also talks about societal perceptions of men or women who murder or are murdered. No one wants to see a woman being violent or covered in blood. Her thoughts lead to menstrual blood and Kayla imagines how it would be if men menstruated, which was hilarious.
Oh Kayla, what a wicked web you weave.
"I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points. Lies are more solid, sometimes they feel more real."
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December 31, 2020
Kayla writes letters to her best friend from camp, Lainie, after a murder on the last night of their summer. Readers don’t know whether Lainie or her summer boyfriend Jackson is the victim or alleged perp. Told through Kayla’s letters, news reports, trial testimony and statements from campers and counselors the story of what happened to the victim unfolds to a surprising conclusion.
Although I guessed the perp from the first page, I was glued to NOBODY KNOWS BUT YOU from start to finish. More YA books set in summer camps need to be written. Though I only attended one week of Girl Scout camp when I was ten, camp books have the same allure of boarding school books for me—teens on their own, with little supervision, chaos ensues.
Some of Anica Mrose Rissi’s writing felt disjointed and confusing, but for the most part NOBODY KNOWS BUT YOU is a solid, if not predictable story. I’d love to see a sequel or prequel from the convicted killer’s point of view.
Although I guessed the perp from the first page, I was glued to NOBODY KNOWS BUT YOU from start to finish. More YA books set in summer camps need to be written. Though I only attended one week of Girl Scout camp when I was ten, camp books have the same allure of boarding school books for me—teens on their own, with little supervision, chaos ensues.
Some of Anica Mrose Rissi’s writing felt disjointed and confusing, but for the most part NOBODY KNOWS BUT YOU is a solid, if not predictable story. I’d love to see a sequel or prequel from the convicted killer’s point of view.
September 6, 2020
wow wow wow wow wow. I just finished this and BOLTED over to my computer to write this review. I am SHOCKED. I am CONFUSED. I am in AWE. I am DISGUSTED. THIS BOOK WAS INSANE!
There is no better word to use to describe it. The entire book leading up to the ending is already incredible. When I tell you I sat down and read this book in two hours. I SAT DOWN AND READ THIS BOOK IN TWO HOURS. I could NOT STOP. And THAT ENDING. Nothing in the entire world will prepare you for what's to come.
This book is going to destroy you. Are you ready?
There is no better word to use to describe it. The entire book leading up to the ending is already incredible. When I tell you I sat down and read this book in two hours. I SAT DOWN AND READ THIS BOOK IN TWO HOURS. I could NOT STOP. And THAT ENDING. Nothing in the entire world will prepare you for what's to come.
This book is going to destroy you. Are you ready?
August 26, 2022
This book was a failure because it was a 100% telling.
All this was just an unreliable narrator telling a story in her diary to her ex-best friend who is facing jail time. And I hated every character in it.
All this was just an unreliable narrator telling a story in her diary to her ex-best friend who is facing jail time. And I hated every character in it.
January 20, 2021
Totally recommend the audio for this one! So well done, and I’m not sure I would have rated it so highly/enjoyed it quite as much if I had read it physically.
July 29, 2020
Many thanks to EdelweissPlus and the publisher for providing me a DRC of this title for review. All opinions are my own.
This was a twisty, unreliable narrator-fueled thriller that I think YA readers will really enjoy. The mixed media format (interviews, letters, articles, depositions, texts) all lend themselves to the atmosphere of unease as the reader realizes the information being given is most likely skewed in some way, but you aren't sure what exactly is wrong with the picture.
Lanie is on trial for allegedly killing her on-again, off-again boyfriend at summer camp and her best friend Kayla doesn't think she could have done it. As the summer ends and the trial is set to start in the fall, Kayla writes letters to Lanie asserting her belief in her innocence and wishing she could talk to her again. Interspersed with these letters are interview snippets from other campers, news articles detailing the trial prep, and text messages between Kayla and one other camper from the summer. Kayla wants to believe Lanie, but the evidence is compelling. She did lie to the police. She did sneak out to see Jonathan. And in the morning he was dead.
Highly recommend. I would say that this is a first purchase type of book, especially where YA thrillers are in demand.
This was a twisty, unreliable narrator-fueled thriller that I think YA readers will really enjoy. The mixed media format (interviews, letters, articles, depositions, texts) all lend themselves to the atmosphere of unease as the reader realizes the information being given is most likely skewed in some way, but you aren't sure what exactly is wrong with the picture.
Lanie is on trial for allegedly killing her on-again, off-again boyfriend at summer camp and her best friend Kayla doesn't think she could have done it. As the summer ends and the trial is set to start in the fall, Kayla writes letters to Lanie asserting her belief in her innocence and wishing she could talk to her again. Interspersed with these letters are interview snippets from other campers, news articles detailing the trial prep, and text messages between Kayla and one other camper from the summer. Kayla wants to believe Lanie, but the evidence is compelling. She did lie to the police. She did sneak out to see Jonathan. And in the morning he was dead.
Highly recommend. I would say that this is a first purchase type of book, especially where YA thrillers are in demand.
August 27, 2020
I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of NOBODY KNOWS BUT YOU, and it completely blew me away! If you like twisty psychological thrillers, intense summer camp insta-friendship, obsessive love, pitch-perfect dialogue, and inventive plot structure, this baby is for you. I tore right through Kayla’s tale of the murder which brought her stay at Camp Cavanick to such an explosive close, all told through a series of letters, texts, court transcripts, and newspaper articles. Highly recommended for thriller/mystery fans.
December 26, 2021
Not the most original of thrillers but I loved the production of the audiobook.
September 3, 2021
3.5 stars
This is the fastest I have read a book in a while!
I picked up a couple audiobooks in a row, listened to a bit and was like meh and I thought this one would be the same at first. That was until I got to that first twist of who the accused was and then I was instantly hooked.
I guessed the twist at the end, but mostly because I read a review which said it was really shocking and I thought ‘wouldn’t that be shocking?’ Still very clever and an interesting journey to that point though.
I also really enjoyed the news reports and camper gossip mixed throughout! It reminded me of Sadie (which is a favourite) and I thought it added a lot to the story! It was nice to see perspectives other than Kayla’s.
This is the fastest I have read a book in a while!
I picked up a couple audiobooks in a row, listened to a bit and was like meh and I thought this one would be the same at first. That was until I got to that first twist of who the accused was and then I was instantly hooked.
I guessed the twist at the end, but mostly because I read a review which said it was really shocking and I thought ‘wouldn’t that be shocking?’ Still very clever and an interesting journey to that point though.
I also really enjoyed the news reports and camper gossip mixed throughout! It reminded me of Sadie (which is a favourite) and I thought it added a lot to the story! It was nice to see perspectives other than Kayla’s.
October 18, 2024
✮⋆˙ 3.5
June 25, 2021
This review was originally posted on The Moonlight Library
This novel is told in epistolary style, in the form of letters from one girl to another after the summer camp that changed their lives.
Kayla is the main character, and the story is about her tumultuous and instant friendship with Lainie at a summer camp that's probably not that appropriate to send a bunch of sixteen year olds to anyway, and what happens when Lainie meets Jasper the jerkass and can't resist him.
I really enjoyed this novel and found the epistolary style quite interesting, and a wonderful technique to use to tell a story that happened in the past. I managed to get quite a firm grasp of the main group of characters, and even several less important ones.
Because the novel is told in the form of letters, we don't get very many descriptions of the way characters or scenery looked. Why would we? The person writing the letter knows the intended recipient knows what everything looks like. So most of my impressions of the summer camp came from the greatest summer camp movie of all time, The Addams Family Values.
It seems to be the perfect location for terrifying time.
Basically the reader knows that someone has been murdered, but we aren't told right away who it is, or why it happened, or even if it maybe... wasn't a murder but instead a tragic accident?
I felt that the greatest weakness with this style of storytelling is that everything felt so... detached. Nothing felt in the moment, because it's all Kayla's reflections, several weeks removed. I still felt like I got invested, but maybe not as much as I could have been.
I think it was a really great idea to bring in other narrators in the audiobook to read for the roles of the witness statements and news reports. I especially liked how these snippets brought more to the story and was able to give us an 'outside' view of Kayla's own little bubble of awareness. Like maybe we were learning and observing things that Kayla didn't even think about.
Overall I did really enjoy this novel. It was on the short side, it was entertaining, the narrators were fantastic, the story was interesting and told in a style I haven't read in a long time, and it kept me invested until the very end.
This novel is told in epistolary style, in the form of letters from one girl to another after the summer camp that changed their lives.
Kayla is the main character, and the story is about her tumultuous and instant friendship with Lainie at a summer camp that's probably not that appropriate to send a bunch of sixteen year olds to anyway, and what happens when Lainie meets Jasper the jerkass and can't resist him.
I really enjoyed this novel and found the epistolary style quite interesting, and a wonderful technique to use to tell a story that happened in the past. I managed to get quite a firm grasp of the main group of characters, and even several less important ones.
Because the novel is told in the form of letters, we don't get very many descriptions of the way characters or scenery looked. Why would we? The person writing the letter knows the intended recipient knows what everything looks like. So most of my impressions of the summer camp came from the greatest summer camp movie of all time, The Addams Family Values.
It seems to be the perfect location for terrifying time.
Basically the reader knows that someone has been murdered, but we aren't told right away who it is, or why it happened, or even if it maybe... wasn't a murder but instead a tragic accident?
I felt that the greatest weakness with this style of storytelling is that everything felt so... detached. Nothing felt in the moment, because it's all Kayla's reflections, several weeks removed. I still felt like I got invested, but maybe not as much as I could have been.
I think it was a really great idea to bring in other narrators in the audiobook to read for the roles of the witness statements and news reports. I especially liked how these snippets brought more to the story and was able to give us an 'outside' view of Kayla's own little bubble of awareness. Like maybe we were learning and observing things that Kayla didn't even think about.
Overall I did really enjoy this novel. It was on the short side, it was entertaining, the narrators were fantastic, the story was interesting and told in a style I haven't read in a long time, and it kept me invested until the very end.
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September 6, 2020I was excited about this but didn't know it was epistolary and I really struggle with books told entirely in letters, etc. They just feel flat to me and I can't get past that.
Setting aside, but if you're good with this format, don't let my lack of enthusiasm stop you!
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Setting aside, but if you're good with this format, don't let my lack of enthusiasm stop you!
Read more of my reviews on JenRyland.com! Let's be friends on Bookstagram!
September 8, 2020
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review . NOBODY KNOWS BUT YOU by the fantastic Anica Mrose Rissi is a twisty, psychological thriller full of letters, texts, newspaper articles, court transcripts. It's an incredible view into summer camp friendship with pitch-perfect dialogue. I stayed up late, tearing through this story of murder because I just had to know how it all played out, and you will too!! Highly recommended!
January 6, 2021
Een moord, een mysterie, een zomerkamp. Wat is er gebeurd? Wie heeft het gedaan? Lainie? Of iemand anders? Een spannend boek!
Er is een moord gepleegd in een kamp. Wie heeft het gedaan? Wat zijn de relaties tussen de karakters en hoe is het zo fout gegaan. We zien het allemaal via de POV van Kayla, de beste vriendin van Lainie die is beschuldigd van moord.
Het boek bestaat uit verschillende formaten die het verhaal vertellen. De grootste zijn de niet verzonden brieven naar Lainie door Kayla. Daarin komen we steeds wat meer te weet over wat er is gebeurd en hoe het kamp was. We lezen over een grote vriendschap. We lezen over een manipulatief stuk vreten dat Jackson heette. We lezen over de aan/uit relatie tussen Lainie en Jackson. En over Kaylas gevoelens over van alles. Ik vond deze stukken soms erg leuk om te lezen en soms ook saai, maar dat komt door de vertaling denk ik. Ik heb namelijk net wat Engelse stukken gelezen (dank je wel Amazon) en daar vloeide alles net iets beter.
Ik had al snel door wie de moord had gepleegd, al vrij vroeg. Tja, sorry, het is gewoon iets wat zo vaak een ding is in boeken als dit. Maar dan nog keek ik enorm uit naar de pagina waar het waar wordt. Waarin de waarheid uitkomt. En ik was zeker niet teleurgesteld. Oh mijn hemel.
De vertaling was ietwat stijfjes en daarom rate ik het boek ook ietsje lager. Op punten voelde het gewoon niet als een tiener maar meer een computer. Ook andere stukjes waren stijf en te letterlijk.
Oh, en ik vond het hilarisch hoe Kayla over Dina praatte als hen, en ondertussen de vrouwelijke vorm van vriend gebruikte, vriendin. Vriendin dit, vriendinnen dat, vriendin zus. Het voelde erg apart en ik snap ook niet waarom niet iets neutralers is gebruikt. Er is vast een Nederlands woord dat neutraal is. Plus, ik vond het vreemd dat er specifiek werd uitgelegd waarom het woord hen werd gebruikt? Van wat ik kan zien in het Engelse boek (nogmaals dank je wel Amazon) wordt er gewoon them/they gebruikt en geen enkele uitleg.
Ik heb ook nooit gehoord dat Scooby Snacks drugs zijn. Ik ken het alleen maar van Scooby Doo en daarom dacht ik ook dat het een reference was naar dat.
Maar ik heb echt genoten van dit boek, het was spannend, ik vond het leuk dat er verschillende formaten waren (texts, interviews, verslagen van het proces, Kaylas brieven), en ik zou het boek ook aanraden.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Er is een moord gepleegd in een kamp. Wie heeft het gedaan? Wat zijn de relaties tussen de karakters en hoe is het zo fout gegaan. We zien het allemaal via de POV van Kayla, de beste vriendin van Lainie die is beschuldigd van moord.
Het boek bestaat uit verschillende formaten die het verhaal vertellen. De grootste zijn de niet verzonden brieven naar Lainie door Kayla. Daarin komen we steeds wat meer te weet over wat er is gebeurd en hoe het kamp was. We lezen over een grote vriendschap. We lezen over een manipulatief stuk vreten dat Jackson heette. We lezen over de aan/uit relatie tussen Lainie en Jackson. En over Kaylas gevoelens over van alles. Ik vond deze stukken soms erg leuk om te lezen en soms ook saai, maar dat komt door de vertaling denk ik. Ik heb namelijk net wat Engelse stukken gelezen (dank je wel Amazon) en daar vloeide alles net iets beter.
Ik had al snel door wie de moord had gepleegd, al vrij vroeg. Tja, sorry, het is gewoon iets wat zo vaak een ding is in boeken als dit. Maar dan nog keek ik enorm uit naar de pagina waar het waar wordt. Waarin de waarheid uitkomt. En ik was zeker niet teleurgesteld. Oh mijn hemel.
De vertaling was ietwat stijfjes en daarom rate ik het boek ook ietsje lager. Op punten voelde het gewoon niet als een tiener maar meer een computer. Ook andere stukjes waren stijf en te letterlijk.
Oh, en ik vond het hilarisch hoe Kayla over Dina praatte als hen, en ondertussen de vrouwelijke vorm van vriend gebruikte, vriendin. Vriendin dit, vriendinnen dat, vriendin zus. Het voelde erg apart en ik snap ook niet waarom niet iets neutralers is gebruikt. Er is vast een Nederlands woord dat neutraal is. Plus, ik vond het vreemd dat er specifiek werd uitgelegd waarom het woord hen werd gebruikt? Van wat ik kan zien in het Engelse boek (nogmaals dank je wel Amazon) wordt er gewoon them/they gebruikt en geen enkele uitleg.
Ik heb ook nooit gehoord dat Scooby Snacks drugs zijn. Ik ken het alleen maar van Scooby Doo en daarom dacht ik ook dat het een reference was naar dat.
Maar ik heb echt genoten van dit boek, het was spannend, ik vond het leuk dat er verschillende formaten waren (texts, interviews, verslagen van het proces, Kaylas brieven), en ik zou het boek ook aanraden.
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June 5, 2021
40/5 🌟
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September 5, 2020
⭐⭐⭐.25
Thank you to HarperCollins and Epic Reads Insiders for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Nobody Knows But You is a YA mystery about the events leading up to a murder at a summer camp. The book follows Kayla and her recollections of what happened at camp, becoming best friends with Lainie, and how Lainie became the prime suspect to the murder of her on-and-off boyfriend, Jackson. Kayla recounts everything that happened, and shares in the series of letters, text messages, and more what there secrets were – until we find out what really happened.
Reading YA mysteries/thrillers is something I’ve wanted to get into more, and this one was pretty interesting! While this was a quick mystery novel, there was quite a bit to piece together with all of the mixed media accounts, in addition to Kayla not revealing everything right away. One of the types of media I liked in particular was the camper interviews, where other campers discuss rumors they’ve heard about the main characters. Since they’re rumors quite a few of them tend to be far-fetched, but there are others that have quite a bit of truth to them – you just have to figure out what’s what.
Something else I liked in particular about Nobody Knows But You is that the characters are a bit younger, at ages 14-16, compared to your regular YA book where they’re around 18. I think this is important to keep in mind if you’re looking for older YA, but at the same time, I feel as though there isn’t as much YA out there with younger characters, so I saw this as a nice change.
There were times, especially in the beginning, where I had a hard time differentiating Kayla and Lainie’s actions as Kayla was recounting them. While there are scenes where Kayla is portrayed as the innocent one in comparison, there were times where they didn’t stand out from each other as much as they could have.
I also felt that, once we knew the full motivations of the murder and who did it, that the things driving that murder were not materialized as well as they could have been. Yes, we do see the events behind that decision, but we don’t feel anything towards those events. Maybe that’s intentional to drive the question of who did it and why towards the end, but I think some of those stories leading up to the reveal could have been more materialized than they were.
Other than that, I thought that Nobody Knows but You was a quick and light, yet interesting YA mystery. I’m not sure whether I’d consider myself great at figuring out the mystery or not, but I thought the twist in this one was pretty interesting and I was able to look back for the clues I missed along the way. I personally don’t like it when mysteries provide an answer that’s so left out of field that you’d never figure it out, but once I knew who did it, I was able to immediately pinpoint hints from past scenes. I’d recommend this for those that enjoy reading about younger characters in YA, unreliable narrators, and mixed media.
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July 3, 2023
Trigger warnings: murder, death, toxic friendship
It took me a little while to get into this and its mixture of letters and newspaper reports and interview quotes. But once I did, I flew through it. I *will* say, I found it quite predictable. But I did enjoy the way the story played out and the way the toxicity of the friendship slowly becomes apparent.
My one significant complaint would be that these kids are 16 and they're.......choosing to be at summer camp? They're not councillors. They're not at a religious camp or any kind of specific summer camp where there's a reason for them to be there. They're sixteen years old and they've chosen to go. Which felt weird to me. But maybe it's an American thing...
It took me a little while to get into this and its mixture of letters and newspaper reports and interview quotes. But once I did, I flew through it. I *will* say, I found it quite predictable. But I did enjoy the way the story played out and the way the toxicity of the friendship slowly becomes apparent.
My one significant complaint would be that these kids are 16 and they're.......choosing to be at summer camp? They're not councillors. They're not at a religious camp or any kind of specific summer camp where there's a reason for them to be there. They're sixteen years old and they've chosen to go. Which felt weird to me. But maybe it's an American thing...
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