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marilynw's review
4.0
Over five decades, 74 year old teacher, Bob Fiske, has chosen, cultivated, and encouraged exceptional students that he designated "Winners". Bob goes missing and shortly afterwards a 16 year old girl he has been mentoring, goes missing, too. A group of four of his Winners from ten years ago, come together to find Bob and hopefully, to defend his reputation and job, when rumors hint that he may have had an illicit relationship with the girl.
Among these four former Winners, along with the school mate who brought them together to brainstorm what has happened to Bob, secrets abound, all the way back to their high school days. I found it strange that such busy, powerful business people (especially married couple Doug and Steph and their former classmate Eric) could drop everything to go look for Bob and the missing girl, since they had barely a clue as to where they might be or what happened to them. But as I got farther in the book, it becomes clear that each person has their own reasons for finding Bob and being motivated to be a part of the search.
This book is full of scheming, lies, betrayals, and much more and it's hard to see how the "good guys", if in fact there are any, will survive to tell their side of the story. It seemed slow going at first but by the 30% mark, I couldn't put the book down and stayed up way too late to read it to the end.
Thank you to Jeff Bond and NetGalley, for this ARC.
Among these four former Winners, along with the school mate who brought them together to brainstorm what has happened to Bob, secrets abound, all the way back to their high school days. I found it strange that such busy, powerful business people (especially married couple Doug and Steph and their former classmate Eric) could drop everything to go look for Bob and the missing girl, since they had barely a clue as to where they might be or what happened to them. But as I got farther in the book, it becomes clear that each person has their own reasons for finding Bob and being motivated to be a part of the search.
This book is full of scheming, lies, betrayals, and much more and it's hard to see how the "good guys", if in fact there are any, will survive to tell their side of the story. It seemed slow going at first but by the 30% mark, I couldn't put the book down and stayed up way too late to read it to the end.
Thank you to Jeff Bond and NetGalley, for this ARC.
laura_matias's review against another edition
5.0
It is a super entretaining, suspenseful novel. Bond always kept me guessing what was going to happen next. The characters were very interesting. The twist did surprise me, which it isn't something that happens often. Also this novel, especially in Fiske's apartment, give dark academia vibes, and that's great.
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