Synopsis from Goodreads:
At Cate’s isolated boarding school, Killer Game is a tradition. Only a select few are invited to play. They must avoid being killed by a series of thrilling pranks, and identify the murderer. But this time, it’s different: the game stops feeling fake and starts getting dangerous and Cate’s the next target. Can they find the culprit … before it’s too late?
Thank you to Netgalley and the publishes for allowing me to read a free copy in exchange for an honest review
I was thinking of giving this a 2.8 but I’ve slept on it and it doesn’t deserve it.
2 out of 5 Stars.
How awesome does this sound? Our MC Cate is in a boarding school called Umfraville. Umfraville is for geniuses and on an island that is only accessible by Boat (if the tides are right) or helicopter.
After reading this my internal conversation went a bit like this:
Me: Oh cool setting! What do you have plot wise book?
Book: Oh well every year 13 kids play The Assassins Game. A game where one of them is the “Killer” and has to “kill” all the others before they guess who it is. You can kill someone with a fart bomb as gas, a water balloon filled with red paint as a grenade the possibilities are endless with a school of gifted children, right? RIGHT?
Me:
Killer Game is boring. The game doesn’t actually start until the half way mark and for geniuses the pranks/kills were lame. We are in a fictional world of kid geniuses I’m sure they could come up with something a bit more inventive then covering someone in red paint. I wanted to see people get “killed” not covered in food colouring, build a droid to launch missiles at people! Set up a hold in the floor and capture people silence of the lambs style I DON’T KNOW I JUST WANTED MORE.
Oh and for a book that had a “real” killer thrown into it no one dies. Was I scarred at any point? No.
The one plus I can say for this book is it was easy to read and I didn’t find myself wanting to DNF it.
Upon finishing the book:
Me: Well that was a whole lot of not much
Book: But weren’t you surprised by the ending?
Me: If surprised you mean slightly happy it was over, disappointed that it wasn’t a shocking reveal and a little bit hungry then yes, I was very surprised.
Book: …
If your looking for a thriller look away, Killer Game is about as Thrilling as me on a Monday before my coffee.
adoptabookaus 
Sounds like it could have been fun. I’m sad to hear it didn’t live up to it’s concept.
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I was really excited for it, it had so much potential and just lacked 😦 I don’t know maybe I like people getting killed in thrillers to much so this book just wasn’t my style haha
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Ah, I know the struggle of thrillers not living up to their expectations! This book sounded great from the synopsis, though. Great review! 🙂
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Thank you! I know, I think I need to be pickier with Thrillers.
I love a well done thriller but I need it to be a page turner and maybe not exactly ‘scary’ but suspenseful.
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Same here! A neatly done, suspenseful thriller is what good books are made of. 😀
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One that I thought of requesting but didn’t and now I’m glad I passed it by.
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I should stop requesting thrillers from netgalley I don’t think I’ve found one that has properly wowed me yet, but who knows maybe one will someday! haha
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Good luck. 🙂 I find a lot I like on there but there’s always the ones that are completely disappointing too.
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Same I’ve found some fantastic ones but never in the thriller selection, I will keep trying! XD
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Promising synopsis but sad to hear that it ended up being a disappointment. I will stay away from this one. Nice review.
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I was so excited for this book based on the description it just sound different and great but unfortunately I couldn’t get into it 😦
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I have been “eyeing” this book because of its cover, but I’ll take your word for it. I might not read this after all, the symopsis sounds very interesting but I guess it really did not deliver. Great review! 😄
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The cover is what drew me to it as well, I’ve seen some people that enjoyed it but I think I was just expecting to much 😦 Thank you 🙂
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Awww shucks, the summary had me thinking all sorts of scarring stuff and I was surprised to see no deaths! It looked like it was going to be a really creepy, at-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of book, its disappointing to see it didn’t live up to expectations. Great review!
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Thank you! It had me thinking the same thing I think I had too high expectations from the description
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Haha, your review made me laugh so much! I have an arc of this because I thought the synopsis sounded really creepy and such, but now I am not looking forward to reading it as much.
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Haha you liked it!
You may like it more then me, I went into it with high expectations so maybe it will exceed yours now there lowered XD Hopefully you enjoy it, I’ll look out for your review to see what you thought 🙂
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Killer Game sure sounds interesting but good to know that perhaps it’s not that great. I loved reading through your post 🙂
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Thank you! Yes it does sound fantastic and the cover is beautiful 🙂 Me and this book unfortunately didn’t get along 😦 haha
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I have heard similar things, so that’s why I didn’t request it on NetGalley. The cover drew me in and the description sounded interesting. And I keep hearing it sucks…it’s too bad.
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It is. I didn’t read any reviews before I requested this, I looked at the cover, and the description and couldn’t wait to start it! Unfortunately I should have read some reviews before hand
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Ahhh man this is such a shame because I was so curious after seeing the cover and reading the blurb! Also, love your review: ‘This book was about as exciting as me before my Monday morning coffee’ 😂
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I know I was really excited to read this and it may have been why I didn’t like it as my hopes were to high 😦
Thank you Sammie! xx
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I find that sometimes with books I’m reallt excited for or that are really hyped! My pleasure! 🙂 xx
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“Killer Game is about as Thrilling as me on a Monday before my coffee.” 😂😂😂
I actually requested this because I am so weak for YA thrillers. It sounded really interesting but my request was denied because for some reason this publisher hates me and never approves any of my requests lmao but it looks like I wasn’t missing out on much haha.
Fantastic honest review, Casey 😊
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Haha Hey maybe to some people non caffeinated Casey is interesting XD haha
You weren’t missing out on much believe me so be happy 🙂 I have to research netgalley books better. I swear I just see something pretty and press request before I realise what I’ve done
I’m trying to control my urges and only request one book at a time so my to read list isn’t so big 🙂
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Haha!! I was so bad at Netgalley when I first got it. I was just like requesting everything I saw. I’m slowly better with my self control now though or maybe not because I have like 9 books on my shelf 😂
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I really wanted to much more for this book.
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