13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough

13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

One morning a man is out walking his dog when the dog seems to see something to get him worked up so investigating further the man comes across a young girl in the icy water. When he sees the girl move a bit he jumps into action calling for help and jumping in to save her and perform CPR until the authorities arrive and take over.

After being revived Natasha has no memory of what landed her in the freezing water that morning that lead to her being dead for thirteen minutes. She really can’t remember anything leading up to the event for the day and a half prior. Just what had happened that morning has everyone talking and Natasha wondering who she can trust.

13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough is a young adult mystery/thriller read. The story changes the point of view between a couple of characters but is also told through things like text message, a psychiatrists note and case notes from the police as Natasha’s and another incident is investigated. Natasha and her other two friends are known as the Barbies and a bit of a mean girl clique that lived up to the mean and really weren’t all that likable.

Now for me going into a story knowing the characters are portrayed as the popular mean girls I felt that I should have at least fallen in love with the character of Becca. Becca had been an older friend of the girls that was dropped from the group for not being cool enough for them. But to be honest I didn’t even find her that likable and some of the actions of all of the characters just had me shaking my head.

In the end I found this one to just be on the OK side since I didn’t really connect with anyone in the story and then in the end I didn’t actually find the wrap up to be that shocking. It wasn’t a bad read just for me it will be on the forgettable side unfortunately.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.