The Bitter End

By: Alexa Donne

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Phoebe Strole, Brittany Pressley, Rachel L. Jacobs, Barrett Leddy, Nick Martineau, Bailey Carr, Briggon Snow

When a winter storm traps eight teens in a remote ski cabin, they find themselves stranded with a killer—who may be one of their own. From the acclaimed author of The Ivies and Pretty Dead Queens comes a YA thriller that will make your blood run cold.

The trip of a lifetime might be the death of them all.

The students of LA’s elite Warner Prep can’t wait for their Senior Excursion—five days of Instagrammable adventure in one of the world’s most exclusive locations. This is not your average field trip.

Which is why eight students can’t believe their bad luck when they end up on a digital detox in an isolated Colorado ski chalet. Their epic trip is panning out to be an epic bore . . . until their classmates start dropping in a series of disturbing deaths. The message is clear: this trip is no accident.

And when a blizzard strikes, secrets are revealed, betrayals are exposed, and survival is at stake in a race to the bitter end.

"Will leave you gasping for air." -Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters

"Readers will be kept guessing until the end." -Kirkus Reviews

Critic reviews

"Wicked, acid-tipped, unparalleled fun. Donne is an evil genius." —Ashley Winstead, author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour

"Readers will be kept guessing until the end." —Kirkus Reviews

"[An] entertaining thriller that ticks all the right boxes." —Publishers Weekly

"A gripping, fantastically twisty mystery for fans of Karen M. McManus and Holly Jackson." —School Library Journal

"Donne has done a dandy job of serving up an irresistible mystery with a devious plot that offers the requisite red herrings." —Booklist

I love when I’m wrong.

The whole way through, I just knew who the killer was. My guess I don’t feel like was the obvious one. So I thought I had really pegged it. And when I found out who the real killer was, I was floored.

Great ‘whodunit,’ story!

Good locked room mystery

Entertaining locked room mystery with a nice twisty ending. Great full cast narration. 4 stars.

Not her best work

I’ve read and enjoyed other books by this author. This one didn’t match the quality of the others. It was hard to find a character to root for. I will read this author again but this book was not for me.

Brittany Pressley

Had I known that Brittany Pressley was a narrator in this book, I never would've wasted a credit. The way she puts emphasis on the last letter of every freaking word, causes me to go into a rage. I can'T stanD the way she narrateS every single booK she'S ever done. I was praying that her character (Delaney) would die in the first chapter....

Lots of twists

This was so much fun. I read it in one sitting because I couldn’t put it down. It was quite spooky, had great ambiance, full of morbid thriller elements and fun twists and misdirects.