Diana Urban's "All Your Twisted Secrets" reminds me of "One of Us Is Lying" and "Clue" and "And Then There Were None" and "This Lie Will Kill You" (which is a lot, but you'll totally get it when--not if--you read it).
["Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.
What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill … or else everyone dies.
Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead. As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something. And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?'"]
It's really, really cool the way Diana played with traditional formatting with the way she starts each chapter with a time-stamp (## Ago and ## Left), which totally upped the suspense (as long as you remembered to read said time-stamp).
This story was just like...really fucking good. Then you get the plot twist about 80% of the way through and my only thoughts from that point on were a constant repetition of "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck" (and a little bit of "fucking hell" and "what the fuck")--(and then from that point on, my entire perspective of the book totally changed and...hence the swearing)
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