Title: How to die Famous
Author: Benjamin Dean
Publisher: Little Brown books for young readers
Genre: thriller YA
Pages: 384
My Rating: ❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤
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How to Die Famous
Abel Miller is a rising star and just landed a role on the hottest reboot of Sunset High, produced by Omni Channel. But he is not there just for the acting role he landed. He is also on a mission. It has been no secret that there is a so-called curse on Sunset High, because terrible things happened to the actors in the past. Abel’s brother died while he was working on Sunset High. And Abel is now there to figure out what happened. And if Onmi Channel is the one to blame.
Review
First time I read a book by Benjamin Dean. I don’t read thrillers that often, even though I love them. I love my Freida Mcfadden books and I have also read other thrillers by different authors.
I liked the plot idea. Abel is sort off going undercover to find out what happened to his brother and if someone killed him and if Onmi channel is the one to blame. Omni channel was giving me Disney Channel or Nickelodeon vibes for the record. They all produce all young adult shows. Abel is not alone of course, he has three other co-stars: Lucky, Ryan and Ella. The curse everyone was talking about was interesting part. It wasn’t the first time something bad happened to people from Sunset High. And it is still happening. Bad things are happening to them right now.
But there was a huge reason why I didn’t like this book and I was sort off surprised. From the beginning the author makes it very clear who could be the bad person, the on who is stalking and murdering. But I have read other thriller books and I also know there will always be a plottiwst,except that never happened. By 2/3 of the books they made it very clear who the killer is. No plottwist came. That ruined the whole book for me honestly. I want to read thrillers and then be surprised who the killer actually is.
Sure, there were still interesting things happening at the end, but for me personally the whole story was already ruined. I want to figure out on my own who the killer is, not that the author makes it clear right from the beginning. That’s no fun.
Overall, I am just really disappointed. I really hope Benjamin’s other books do actually have plottwists, because this wasn’t fun. I still gave it 2/5 hearts, because I still like the plot idea. Or maybe I am just getting too old for YA thrillers at this point.