Bad Call

by Stephen Wallenfels

[readingwithwrin]

I was a little unsure of this book at first. Three teenage guys and one girl going on a mountain hiking trip alone. I knew it wasn't going to end well, but I was not expecting it to go as bad as it did.

Three friends Ceo, Graham, and Collin from an elite school that are all in the tennis program one night while playing poker decide to go hike a mountain. With another friend backing out the day of Ceo decided to invite someone else along with them, and that someone is Ellie who is not his usual type of girl, but one that he has befriended anyway. (trust me it all gets cleared up in the end and it makes sense why in his mind he does this.)

We get to see this story from two pov's Collin and Ellie. Collin is a scholarship kid who is pretty poor compared to most of his classmates and especially compared to Ceo and Graham. I'm mentioning this because Collin doesn't have the proper clothes for this trip.
Ellie has lied to her parents telling them that she is going to a college campus for the weekend after having been invited and has her best friend posting photos for her to try and keep up the charade.

Ellie hears warning bells the minute this whole group sets off, but she decides to try and stick it out anyway, after all the plans she had made to make sure that her parents didn't know where she really was. The group also has two other problems one Graham and Ceo constantly argue, and problem two there is a fire on most of the mountain meaning they have to do a trail that they knew nothing about.

Now from the cover you know that an Ax is apart of this story, and let me tell you it is a big question mark from the beginning and things just get worse and worse with it throughout the book. So many arguments and scary moments happen with it that you just wish they had left it behind after having trouble hooking it to their packs.

Overall this story had me from the first page, and I needed to know what happened, and why it happened. If you start a book with someone covered in blood and a person missing, you gotta keep going to know what happens next. This book did not disappoint and we even got to know what lead to some hard feelings between the guys and what exactly made them agree to this crazy trip in the first place. I also liked how the characters worked as hard as they could to survive and mostly worked together as a team even if they were annoyed with each other.

As for who gets hurt, I could see why it finally happened, but I wasn't expecting it to happen like that. I think this is a really good book for older YA and even though it has slow parts, you want to know who got hurt that it's easy to work through.

Thank you to Disney Hyperion and NetGalley for an e-arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.


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